Editor’s Note: Bryant University announced Wednesday evening that head men’s basketball coach Phil Martelli, Jr., stepped down. Virginia Commonwealth University said it had hired Martelli as its new head coach. Phil Martelli, Jr. had the weekend to savor his basketball team’s first trip to the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championships. Bryant, seeded […]
Joziah Fry
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The best R.I. athlete you’ve never heard of: JWU’s Joziah Fry
Joziah Fry is the best college athlete in Rhode Island, and I’ll bet you have never heard of him. He is a two-time All-America and a two-time national champion. He has lost once in three years. He doesn’t just beat his opponents, he dominates them. But Joziah Fry does not perform before 12,000 cheering spectators […]
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Johnson & Wales is wrestling for a national championship this weekend
Big-time wrestling is coming to Providence this weekend. No, not WWE Raw theater with bodies flying over the ropes, heroes and villains performing to a choreographed script and spectators intoxicated from spectacle more than sport. No, 210 of the finest collegiate wrestlers in America will be in town for the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships […]
