Sports Columns
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On May 30, I went over to La Salle Academy to watch the Toll Gate softball team play the Rams in the single-elimination portion of the Division I playoffs.
Full disclosure: I was there for one …
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Kevin Pomeroy, Assistant Sports Editor
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6/13/13
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SEAN FURNEY
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Sean Furney started his collegiate baseball career at the University of Rhode Island, but just a few months in, he couldn’t be sure it would end there.
The former Pilgrim standout …
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William Geoghegan, Sports Editor
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6/6/13
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A Hendricken player bound for Boston College squares off against a La Salle player who’s a Division I college prospect. Talent surrounds them at every position.
Must-see right?
If it …
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William Geoghegan, Sports Editor
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5/16/13
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As they were eating lunch at California Pizza Kitchen last Monday, Colin Tierney and his buddies from Bishop Hendricken couldn’t have imagined the devastation that would soon unfold on the …
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Kevin Pomeroy, Assistant Sports Editor
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4/25/13
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I’ve been louder at a sporting event. I’ve rooted harder. I’ve cared more. But I’ve never been more inspired than I was on Beacon Street in 2009.
Former sports editor Ed Owens was running …
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William Geoghegan, Sports Editor
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4/18/13
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I called it last July. We were planning a cruise when I realized the dates coincided with March Madness.
I hesitated.
“Louisville’s going to win the national championship,” I said. “I …
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William Geoghegan, Sports Editor
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4/11/13
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Realignment comes but once every two years in the Rhode Island Interscholastic League, and the RIIL knows how to make it count every time.
Spring is here, the warm weather is coming and the RIIL …
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Kevin Pomeroy, Assistant Sports Editor
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4/4/13
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MARC COMTOIS
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Volunteers make youth sports go. They get to the fields early. They set up. They make the schedules. They flip burgers. They stay late, then wake up and do it all again.
They do all of it with …
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William Geoghegan, Sports Editor
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3/28/13
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Twice in the mid 90’s, Mike and John Gaffney tried to dethrone mighty Mount St. Charles, and both times they came up empty. Mike, the father and Toll Gate head coach, and John, the son and Toll …
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Kevin Pomeroy, Assistant Sports Editor
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3/14/13
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...and devastation for West.
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In the moments following the best basketball game I saw all season and the craziest finish I’ve seen in all my years of doing this, I almost sent out a factually inaccurate Tweet.
I …
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William Geoghegan, Sports Editor
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3/7/13
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21 views
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