National Football League free agency means teams usually don’t spend much time at the top or bottom. It also means many top players don’t spend much time in one place. So when they’re free agents after three to five years and they choose to sign elsewhere, their careers with their old teams — usually the […]
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Wasting time like a pro
The US Labor Department might soon have to create a public service announcement for pro sports. It would warn of the disastrous economic impact that could occur when teams purposely play a procrastinating, chew-up-the-clock style of offense. The ad would be based on the 1980s drug-prevention PSA of a father confronting his pot-smoking son. […]
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NASCAR: not just talking moonshine
Let’s do away with all your high-horsed jokes before we continue. Yes, NASCAR’s roots are in the Deep South, where terms like “y’all” and “you’ve got a pretty mouth” are common vernacular. Yes, NASCAR apparel is the most ungodly thing ever created, full of wraparound-print T-shirts and hats that are louder than a hot […]
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Shooting for the ‘Stars
Most 18-year-olds fret over waking up in time to make their English 101 class. Mike Magee has to worry about scoring on Zach Thornton and Pat Onstad. The New York/New Jersey MetroStars forward, who graduated from high school earlier this year thanks to an accelerated program, has six goals already this season — just one […]
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Rhinos enter tie land
Last time out. The Lynx are so bad. They’re so bad, they couldn’t even draw the Rhinos 2-2 at Frontier . The last time a non-Toronto team failed to score two goals on the road against Rochester was back in June, when the Rhinos shut out Montreal, 2-0. Last Friday, the Lynx (9-3-10, 30 points) […]
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Rhinos enter Bizarro World
Last time out. Who would have dreamt that the Rhinos (12-4-5, 40 points) would get more points during the Charleston-Richmond road trip (3) than they did in the Charleston-Richmond home stand (2)? Anyone with their hands in the air is a filthy liar. Richmond (10-4-7, 34) still seems to have Rochester’s number, winning in Virginia […]
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Finger-gnawing fun
Last time out. Montreal (8-3-3, 27 points) had its full complement of ex-Rhinos on the field (Martin Nash, Mauro Biello, Eduardo Sebrango, and Gabriel Gervais), but that dog refused to hunt as Rochester (8-4-2, 26) denied the Impact a third straight win, netting a 2-0 victory at Frontier on a lovely Saturday night. Montreal’s loss, […]
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Rhinos beat themselves
Last time out.The Score won an autographed ball in the Perinton Youth Hockey raffle during Friday’s 3-2 home overtime loss against Montreal, but that trinket wasn’t enough to dissuade us from seriously considering a leap off the Court Street Bridge on the way home. The Rhinos watched a 2-0 lead evaporate with 10 minutes left […]
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May we suggest…
Last time out. The Rhinos (16-3-7) split a pair of games with the Toronto Lynx (10-4-13) over the weekend. They dropped the road portion of the home-and-home series on Friday, losing 2-1. The Score is a little mystified by the decision not to start Hamisi Amani-Dove and the red-hot Greg Simmonds in that match, especially […]
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Rochester Rhinos
Last time out. The Rhinos (15-3-6) hit the road for a pair of matches against two of the weaker teams in the A League. On Friday, they earned their first bonus point of the season with a 3-1 win over Cincinnati (8-0-16). Hamisi Amani-Dove scored twice in that game, and added one the following evening […]
