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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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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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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Calling all Rhinos fans
What do all those empty seats at PAETEC mean for the team?
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An usher and a gentleman
Meet Nick Christakis, one of the Red Wings’
biggest fans; plus, a Red Wings update
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The Roar look to make some noise
Women’s football team tries to score more local attention
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The other Rhinos
It’s a drizzly day at PAETECPark, just two days before the brand-new stadium celebrates its June 3 grand opening with a Rochester Rhinos soccer game. But tonight the men are nowhere to be found. Tonight, the women rule the turf. The members of the W-League Rochester Rhinos women’s team go through their daily paces under […]
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A league of their own
As a kid, Eugenio Cotto Jr. would come home after school and immediately grab his baseball glove and pair of spikes. He simply couldn’t wait. “Baseball was already on my mind,” he says. “I was already at the baseball park.” Unfortunately, Cotto admits, he wasn’t all that great at playing the game. But that didn’t […]
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Wings and a prayer
Rochester Red Wings General Manager Dan Mason calls the rival Buffalo Bisons “the Yankees of the International League.” Whether that’s a compliment or a slam is open to interpretation, depending on your feelings about the Bronx Bombers and their absurdly humongous payroll. But as a statement of fact, Mason’s evaluation of the Bisons is pretty […]
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Now, the playoffs push
For 15 straight seasons, the Rochester Americans have qualified for the American League Hockey playoffs. In 1989, the last time the Amerks missed out on the post-season, Bush Senior was in the White House and Nirvana was just a club band kicking around Seattle. That could all end this season. With two months to go, […]
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RazorSharks debut with ‘a different kind of game’
The coach of the Rochester RazorSharks, the city’s first-year expansion franchise in the American Basketball Association, paced back and forth, hands clasped behind his back, across the gym floor as his players hunched over and gasped for air. A couple of the players, it seems, were not finishing their wind sprints in the allotted 30 […]
