Barring an Ivy League championship next fall, the highlight of Brown University’s football season will be the Nov. 10 game against Dartmouth at Fenway…
Mike Szostak
Mike Szostak has provided sports commentary for The Public's Radio since 2015. He focuses on Rhode Island's rich sports scene with an occasional look at Boston's pro teams and national issues. He was a sports writer and columnist for The Providence Journal for 36 years. His career highlights include five Winter Olympics from Lake Placid to Nagano, 17 seasons covering the Boston Celtics, and decades of tennis, skiing and college sports, especially Brown and URI football.
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Lights, Turf Coming To Bryant’s Bulldog Stadium
Bryant University hired a new football coach this month, and thanks to the generosity of two trustees, he will send his players on to a new artificial…
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Add Brown Lacrosse To Top Sports Stories Of 2016
Apologies to the Brown University men’s lacrosse program and attackman Dylan Molloy for not including them among the top sports stories of 2016 posted…
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Tom Brady, David Oritz Top Sports Stories Of 2016
Championships eluded New England’s Big Four this year, but the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins still provided us with memorable moments. So did…
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College Football: New Year Should Bring New Coach To Bryant
While coaches Jim Fleming of the University of Rhode Island and Phil Estes of Brown shop for football talent these days, Bryant athletics director Bill…
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Expectations Shifting For URI, PC Basketball
Expectations are like sand castles at Scarborough Beach. Threatened by waves and tides, here now but probably gone later. And then rebuilt. So it is…
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Dear Chicago, Congratulations!
November 3, 2016 Dear Chicago, You finally did it! After 108 years of failure, disappointment and heartache, you finally did it! You are World Series…
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Red Sox Elimination No Surprise
Are you surprised the Indians eliminated the Red Sox in their best-of-five American League Division Series? I’m not. Swept? Yes. Eliminated? No, and…
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Brown Coach Phil Estes On URI’s Meade Stadium, Nathanael Greene And Brown Football
Phil Estes remembers his first visit to Meade Stadium on the University of Rhode Island campus. The year was 1977, he was a sophomore at the University…
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Richard A. “Dick” Ernst, 1938-2016
Dick Ernst was as Rhode Island as Del’s Lemonade, Federal Hill and the Big Blue Bug. Cranston-born and Cranston-bred, he accomplished much in life,…
