I said Houston in 6 and the Red Sox won in 5. I love it when I’m wrong like that. David Price was great and of course Jackie Bradley Jr. gets the series MVP. Now it’s on to the World Series! Final weekend of the regular season in high school football and it has gone…… Continue Reading

I guess David Price was OK, Sale wasn’t and what’s up with Craig Kimbrel? Anyway the series is 1-1 so fasten your seat belts. As for the Pats, let’s just say it was a classic. Patrick Mahomes was fantastic and so was Tom Brady! Just one game to go in the regular season in high…… Continue Reading

Yesterday I wrote here that I thought David Price would start in a championship series game, but I thought it would be in game #4. Price will start in game 2 at Fenway on Sunday night and of course Chris Sale will start in game 1 on Saturday night. I have not been a Price…… Continue Reading

Another impressive win for Rutland as the Raiders romped over Rice last Friday night by a score of 49-26. Dakota Peters with four touchdowns. Rutland is now #1 in the QPR with two games to go in the regular season. The Raiders will be hosting Essex this Friday night and will finish up at Burlington/South…… Continue Reading

If they say it’s the match-up everybody wanted to see they didn’t ask me! I wanted a Red Sox-Oakland match-up, but it is the match-up I really expected because I gave Oakland virtually no chance last night and I was right. A nice season for Oakland, but what does it all mean? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!…… Continue Reading

enjoyed Don Orsillo, AJ and David Cone on the Red Sox vs. Yankee game on Saturday and so many fans were talking about how they miss Orsillo. I love Don Orsillo and he is great, but he isn’t as good as Dave O’Brien. Sorry he isn’t. Also O’Brien and Dennis Eckersley are great together so…… Continue Reading

Chris Sale was so so in his final tune-up before the American League Division Series last night. I’m concerned, but the Red Sox claim that Sale was just working on his mechanics. I’m concerned about Sale’s velocity too, but Sale and the Sox say there is nothing wrong physically. I will say that if Sale…… Continue Reading

I went 10-5 last week in the NFL and I now stand at 17-13. Here goes for week #3 Thursday September 20th Cleveland over NY Jets Sunday September 23rd Atlanta over New Orleans Baltimore over Denver Carolina over Cincinnati Houston over NY Giants Jacksonville over Tennessee Kansas City over San Francisco Oakland over Miami Minnesota…… Continue Reading

The Red Sox have won four straight and are on the verge of clinching their third straight AL East title, but I’m sick to my stomach because the bullpen blew another late inning lead last night. I went 11-5 in my high school football picks last week and my record is now 20-11. Here goes…… Continue Reading

It’s week #2 in the high school football season. I went 9-6 last week: Friday September 7th Rutland over CVU in a game to be broadcast on Rock 94.5 FM St. Johnsbury over Essex in a game to be video cast on NSNsports.net Hartford over Middlebury Mill River over Springfield Burr and Burton over U32…… Continue Reading

One of the great things about covering sports in Vermont are the connections from one generation to another as well as the geographic connections from one end of the state to another. Another such connection is the story of CVU junior quarterback Ryan Anderson. Ryan wears #7, the same number his dad Aaron Anderson wore…… Continue Reading

The Travis Roy Foundation Wiffle Ball Tournament wrapped up yesterday at “Little Fenway”,”Little Wrigley” and “Little Field of Dreams” on the Essex/Jericho line. A record $617,634 was raised for the foundation for its research in spinal cord injuries. Travis Roy was paralyzed from the neck down just 11 seconds into his college hockey career at…… Continue Reading

The OEC Kings will not be playing in the State American Legion Baseball Tournament this weekend because they used an ineligible player. It is disappointing for all the players involved, but a rule is a rule. OEC might’ve been the best team in the state too. One of my pet peeves is when people say…… Continue Reading

France wins the World Cup its 2nd overall and first since 1998. The Yankees win the World Series every time France wins the World Cup! John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont on February 7th, 1804. There is a historic sign adjacent to the Main St. Park in Rutland so why isn’t the John Deere…… Continue Reading

It was brutally hot on Saturday afternoon, but it didn’t stop the hundreds of mourners many from the Lenny Burke Farm who filed into the the Castleton University Pavilion to pay their respects to former MSJ basketball standout Lenny Burke. It was a beautiful service as members of the family and others spoke of their…… Continue Reading

Let me start out with Julian Edelman of the Patriots who will be suspended four games for PED use pending appeal. Let me make it clear that any punishment is fair and he will probably use the same excuses everybody makes like I didn’t know where it came from, it was a vitamin, blah, blah,blah!…… Continue Reading

Everybody has an opinion on the NFL ruling and the National Anthem. There probably shouldn’t have been a ruling at all because it just stirs up the pot again. That being said here is my feeling on it again. I think any player has a right to kneel or protest the National Anthem or the…… Continue Reading

The Mill River Unified Basketball team came up a little bit short in the state championship game at UVM’s Patrick Gym yesterday losing to the Belcate School of Essex Jct. by a score of 51-47. Mill River is the South champion and had a rousing send off before leaving for Burlington and a huge welcome…… Continue Reading

Let’s face it! It’s about Tukka Rask in game 7 between the Bruins and the Toronto in their NHL series tonight. If the good Tukka shows up, the Bruins will win. If the bad Tukka shows up, the Bruins will lose. I believe it’s as simple as that. I know the Bruins first line has…… Continue Reading

This latest Red Sox-Yankees fracas is on the Red Sox! Of course it is. Austin’s slide into 2nd wasn’t that bad and Brock Holt’s reaction was a way “over reaction” as far as I’m concerned. Come on Brock! Then of course Kelly hitting Austin with the pitch was ridiculous too. No this one is on…… Continue Reading

It’s finally here the 2018 baseball season. I’ve been looking forward to it for awhile. I think the Yankees are loaded and really good, but I think the Red Sox are really good too. Here goes my predictions for 2018: NL West NL Central NL East 1. LA Dodgers 1. Cubs 1. Washington 2. Arizona…… Continue Reading

What a weekend for Rutland area sports!!!! On Friday night at the Barre Auditorium MSJ won its 4th straight Division 4 girls basketball state championship as Lyndsey Elms led the way with 9 points. Bill Bruso with his first championship as head coach and MSJ winning its 5th state title overall. The Mounties won a…… Continue Reading

A couple of more pet peeves and maybe I’ve mentioned them before and maybe not: There are fans and some coaches who don’t like byes and that is hard to believe. You do realize that when you have a bye you have already won that game, right? You do realize that you have one less…… Continue Reading

It’s playoff time again in high school sports as boys and girls hockey and girls basketball are underway and boys basketball starts next week. I’ve asked the question for the past 40 years and that is why are first round games called play downs in Vermont? I never hear that term elsewhere. You don’t hear…… Continue Reading

The Boston Celtics retired Paul Pierce’s #34 on Sunday. Have the Celtics retired too many numbers over the years? Probably, but it was a great ceremony. Well done Boston! One of the Celtics’ retired numbers is #6 Bill Russell. Yesterday was Russell’s 84th birthday. Bill Russell was the greatest winner of all time! Think about…… Continue Reading

Let me say it’s no good to lose in the Super Bowl. There is one winner and everybody else loses. The only team that should be happy is the team that wins it all. I did go with the Patriots to win so after the loss my final record is 167-100. However as I wrote…… Continue Reading

I predicted four players correctly getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Vladimir Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman all getting in as I thought they would. I thought Edgar Martinez would get in, but he fell 20 votes shy. I think he will get in next year. I watched about three hours…… Continue Reading

I think it’s great that MSJ is going back to varsity football after breaking off from the co-op program with Poultney. I think Tucker Peterson will do a great job as coach and has a great staff including his dad Art Peterson. Art was not only a former coach at Mill River as was Tucker,…… Continue Reading

Yes it was a classic and I missed it! Is it me or do football games last longer than baseball games? Of course this one went into overtime and of course more action than the average baseball game! You have to give Nick Saban a lot of credit. He ties Bear Bryant for most national…… Continue Reading

I should’ve stayed up for that last quarter and the overtimes of the Rose Bowl. I guess it turned into a classic. Georgia defeats Oklahoma and Alabama defeats Clemson in the Sugar Bowl so it will be an All-SEC national championship game. Does Georgia have enough on the defensive side to stop Alabama? I don’t…… Continue Reading

2017 was a great year for local sports. What was your top sports story of 2017? I have a few in no particular order except for #1. This has to be #1: Yes Rutland’s thrilling overtime victory over CVU to win its first Division 1 boys basketball championship in 50 years. It was a magical…… Continue Reading

I went 11-5 last week and now stand at 138-86 in the NFL football picks. Week #16 Saturday December 23rd Baltimore over Indianapolis Minnesota over Green Bay Sunday December 24th Chicago over Cleveland Detroit over Cincinnati LA Rams over Tennessee Kansas City over Miami NE Patriots over Buffalo New Orleans over Atlanta LA Chargers over…… Continue Reading

Let me repeat what I already wrote yesterday because it’s amazing what people don’t seem to get. Jesse James did not complete the catch! That’s the point! Breaking the plane doesn’t matter if you’re a receiver if you don’t complete the catch. It’s pretty simple and  plays like that have been called consistently over the…… Continue Reading

It’s week #15 in the NFL. I went 11-5 last week to go to 127-81 on the season Thursday December 14th Indianapolis over Denver Saturday December 16th Detroit over Chicago Kansas City over LA Chargers Sunday December 17th Miami over Buffalo Carolina over Green Bay Baltimore over Cleveland Houston over Jacksonville Minnesota over Cincinnati New…… Continue Reading

Gronk’s appeal has been denied and he will serve his one game suspension at Miami on Monday night. Now let’s cut the nonsense! The one game suspension was fair. Those who say more than one game are idiots. You could make the argument that the players from the Monday night Steelers-Bengals fiasco who were also…… Continue Reading

In college football with Ohio State getting into the “Final 4” without playing in the conference championship game let alone winning it last year and not getting into the “Final 4” this year despite winning the Big 10 championship game I wonder how important those conference championship games really are. Alabama didn’t even win its…… Continue Reading

My up and down NFL picking season continues as I went 12-4 this week and I now stand at 104-72 overall. The Miami Dolphins are cheap shot artists. There is no doubt about it. Tom Brady got hammered all day long and many in my opinion were late and low hits. Brady kept getting up…… Continue Reading

In Ivy League football last Saturday Yale defeated Harvard 24-3 and won its first outright Ivy League title since 1980. Former MSJ standout Mike Muscatello was a starting defensive back on that Yale team. Mike starred on the great MSJ undefeated Division 1 state championship team in 1976 and caught a touchdown pass in Vermont’s…… Continue Reading

I was 1-1 in my Cy Young picks. I went with Corey Kluber, but I did not pick Max Sherzer. MVP tonight. I’m going with Jose Altuve in the American League and Paul Goldschmidt in the National League. I went 7-7 in the NFL picks last week to bring my overall record to 83-63. Week…… Continue Reading

Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger won the AL and NL Rookie of the year Awards unanimously and certainly no surprise there and if I predicted yesterday I would’ve gone with both. It would’ve been a no brainer decision. The Managers of the Year will be announced tonight and I’m going with AJ Hinch and Dave…… Continue Reading

It’s state championship day tomorrow in high school football at Rutland’s Alumni Field. All the games are rematches from the regular season games and every regular season game was close so it should be an exciting day. I went 5-1 in the semi’s to bring my overall record to 113-29. Division 3 at 11 AM:…… Continue Reading

I went 5-1 for the high school semi’s to bring my overall record to 113-29. The three championship games are this Saturday at Rutland’s Alumni Field: Division 3 at 11 AM Windsor vs Woodstock Division 2 at 2 PM  Fair Haven vs. Bellows Falls Division 1 at 5 PM St. Johnsbury vs. Hartford. All three…… Continue Reading

The Houston Astros won the World Series in 7 as I correctly predicted. LOL. Lucky guess of course!!! The Patriots signed Brian Hoyer as their back-up quarterback. I rather have Colin Kaepernick. Week #9 in the NFL. Thursday November 2nd Buffalo over New York Jets Sunday November 5th Baltimore over Tennessee New Orleans over Tampa…… Continue Reading

The Patriots have traded Jimmy Garoppolo to the San Francisco 49ers for a 2nd round draft choice. At first I’m asking why? Isn’t Garoppolo the quarterback of the future? What are the Patriots going to do for a back-up if Tom Brady goes down? Then I thought about it… Why not trade Garoppolo. He’s an…… Continue Reading

Vin Scully threw out the first pitch last night before game 2 of the World Series. How neat was that? Then it was one of the great World Series games of all-time! They should’ve let Vin broadcast an inning or 2. NFL week #8 I went 10-5 last week and my record is now 59-47.…… Continue Reading

I went with the Dodgers in 6 and they won in 5. Hard to believe that the Dodgers haven’t been to the World Series since 1988. Ron Gardenhire is the new manager of the Detroit Tigers. Glad he isn’t going to the Red Sox. I don’t want Brad Ausmus, I want Alex Cora! I hope…… Continue Reading

A gruesome injury  suffered by Gordon Hayward in his Celtics debut as he suffered a broken ankle, a broken tibia and apparent ligament damage. As a fan I’m disappointed of course as I was looking forward to watching him play with the Celtics this season, but more importantly I just hope he is out for…… Continue Reading

You have to give the Yankees a lot of credit. Down 2-0 after a devastating loss and then coming back to win three straight  with the 5th game on the road to advance to the American League Championship Series. A couple of things; The Yankees bailed out Joe Girardi for his game 2 blunder. Instead…… Continue Reading

Here are my precitions for the baseball Division Series: American League: Houston over the Red Sox in 4 Cleveland over the Yankees in 4   National league: Arizona over the Dodgers in 5 Washington over the Cubs in 5   NFL Week #5 I went 9-7 last week and my overall record is 38-25 Thursday…… Continue Reading

It’s week #5 in high school football. I stand at 46-15 after going 13-2 last week. Friday September 29th Rutland over Middlebury Woodstock over Mill River Fair Haven over Poultney/MSJ Hartford over Brattleboro Burlington over CVU Mt. Mansfield over Colchester Essex over Rice South Burlington over Mt. Anthony U32 over North Country Saturday September 30th…… Continue Reading