Great Expectations. Charles Dickens wrote about them in 1861. Jim Fleming harbors them in 2025. So do Fleming’s University of Rhode Island football players and coaches. Plus, administrators, students, alums, boosters and fans. Nine months after their historic 11-3, championship playoff season — their first since 1985 — the Rams return with bigger goals: another […]
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Passages overshadowed championships in 2024
I usually launch this year-end review with upbeat anecdotes about championship teams, unexpected success stories, and feel-good memories of the previous 12 months. This time I chose a different approach. Jim Donaldson was an excellent sports reporter and entertaining columnist for the Providence Journal for close to 38 years. He had an acerbic wit and […]
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Christmas 2024: RI sports gifts received and awaiting delivery
We are still a few hours from Christmas, but some of us have received presents already. If you wore your Keaney Blue to the Ryan Center on Dec. 7, you went home celebrating URI’s 69-63 victory over Providence College. What a gift! The Rams improved to 9-0 and continued the program’s best start in 76 […]
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Five RI sports reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving
A loving family. Good health. Friends. An outlet for these musings. A decent crosscourt forehand. I have much for which to be personally grateful this Thanksgiving. But since we live in a world of fives — Five Reasons Why Trump Beat Harris, Five Dishes That Will Shine On Your Thanksgiving Table, for example — here […]
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URI football’s Cole Brockwell is a throwback following in his father’s footsteps
University of Rhode Island linebacker Cole Brockwell is a throwback to a time when college football players spent their first two years learning and hoping to get on the field, their third season playing on special teams and perhaps as a backup, and their fourth, finally, as a starter. But Brockwell is also a product […]
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College Football 2024: Wild and Wacky
Welcome to the wild and wacky world of college football 2024. A world where: Colorado coach Deion Sanders can blackball a member of the sports media covering his team and the administration is okay with it. Players change schools as frequently as autumn leaves change colors. Thirty thousand enter the transfer portal every December. Conferences […]
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College football: Do URI and Brown have what it takes?
URI has not won enough to receive a postseason bid since 1985. Brown has won only seven games in three seasons under coach James Perry. Will the Rams and Bears deliver in 2023?
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URI and Salve Regina football post winning seasons, not so for Brown and Bryant
URI commands respect after three winning records in the last four full seasons.
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Jumping On The Bandwagon!
The bandwagon for the 7-4 New England Patriots
is getting crowded.
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It’s Homecoming Weekend!
Homecoming festivities are ready to go at URI and Bryant with a different kind of Homecoming coming to Foxboro.
