For a team that just lost a game 15-0, the members of the Kickball All-Stars are surprisingly upbeat. They’ve just gotten their butts handed to them by the Tulips and Blue Balls team in Kickball League of Rochester play, but for some reason the All-Stars aren’t having much of a problem shrugging off the loss […]
Ryan Whirty
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RECREATION: Changing Lanes
With a roiling din of voices and the clattering of falling pins surrounding him, Marty lounges on the bench, eyeing his teammates and opponents as they hurl their balls down the alley. At the lounge table behind him, bowlers play cards and take swigs of beer, and catch up on each other’s weeks. It’s Monday […]
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Lady Tribunes eye fourth consecutive national title
The MCC women’s basketball team eyes a fourth consecutive national title
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Snowshoeing
More modern than you think, snowshoeing provides perfect winter workouts
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The Knighthawks ready for 2007
Can the lacrosse team net that second title?
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Rochester’s pigskin past
Remember the Jeffersons Getting reacquainted with Rochester’s trailblazing NFL team Sports In September 1920, the Rochester media eagerly awaited the debut of the city’s fully professional football team, the Jeffersons. Owned and managed by Leo Lyons, the Jeffs were charter members of the American Professional Football Association, which was renamed the National Football League two […]
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RazorSharks return
Defending champions the RazorSharks look forward to a repeat In 2005-06, the Rochester RazorSharks pulled off what few, if any, of the other teams in the American Basketball Association were able to do — succeed on and off the court. In its first year of existence, the team won the ABA title and instantly became […]
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Inside the Harris Poll
Poll dancing Rochester-based Harris poll generates controversy in the college football scene. Sports There are few machinations in American sports that create as much controversy as the ranking of Division I college football’s best teams — and, in particular, the top two teams. As public and journalistic demand for the establishment of a season-ending playoff […]
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Rhinos wrap-up
Meanwhile, the Rochester Raging Rhinos wrapped up the 2006 season in the United Soccer Leagues’ First Division on Saturday, and they certainly didn’t get the ending they wanted on a cold, wet, dreary night. In the USL First Division championship game, the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps thoroughly outplayed a Rhinos team that was looking to secure […]
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Another shot at the goal
Sports For the Rochester Americans, the upcoming American Hockey League season will largely be an effort to erase the bad memories of 2005-06, when the second-oldest franchise in the league missed the playoffs for the first time since 1989. The Amerks struggled for much of last season, thanks partially to the disruptive onset of dual […]
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Calling all Rhinos fans
What do all those empty seats at PAETEC mean for the team?
