Unvaccinated people can attend Red Wings games, but a state mandate requires them to be seated in separate, socially-distanced seating. Cue the backlash.
Frontier Field
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Red Wings groundskeeper dreams of revealing his field of green
Rochester Red Wings groundskeeper Gene Buonomo tends a brand a new field at Frontier Field just waiting for a ball game.
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Calendar preview: Out in color
This week’s mix of virtual and in-person events includes social justice talks & town halls, film screenings, and a Pride march & rally for BLM.
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On the streets where you live
Monroe County is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages. The Genesee River and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are […]
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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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Forging a Frontier of their own
DC United’s Jaime Moreno stands just outside Frontier Field’s team locker rooms and looks down the tunnel where soccer players enter the stadium, in the foul territory behind home plate. His team just beat the Rhinos 2-0 in a friendly match, and Moreno is describing what it’s like to play soccer on a baseball […]
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Kids these days
Fifteen-year-old Major League Soccer Savior Freddy Adu came to Rochester last Wednesday night as part of a friendly match that pitted his team, DC United, against the Rhinos. United won, 2-0, and Adu scored a fine mid-range goal set up by former Greece Arcadia star and United teammate Dema Kovalenko. Adu’s got that Bill […]
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If we build it, we will pay
For professional sports teams, making a bad deal can lead to a disappointing season or two (witness the Bills’ decision to trade a first-round draft pick next year for the abysmal Drew Bledsoe). But when a municipality makes a bad deal on a sports stadium, the disappointing results can play out for years. That’s […]
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Rhinos and Red Wings and Rattlers, oh my
As any African guide will tell you, it’s not a good idea to taunt a Rhino. But it seems the members of the Greater Rochester Sports Authority haven’t been on a safari in quite some time. And if they don’t placate both Rochester’s Rhinos and Red Wings, there could be a stampede out of town. […]
