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Playoff Time in NYS High School Athletics

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, Sports, tagged , , on 20 November 2009 | 4 Comments »

I have a friend, one that I first met and chatted with online but that I have since met in real life, whose son’s football team was making a run for the NYSPHSAA championship.  I have followed Dad’s posts on Facebook about wins in various  games and it has taken me back.   Tonight, even [...]

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NCAA Recruiting Rules Change

Posted in Collegiate Sports, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, Sports, tagged , , , , , on 24 January 2009 | 1 Comment »

Surprise!  Surprise! The NCAA thinks it is just like big time professional sports and has an annual meeting to discuss rules and changes to said rules.  If you have ever gone through the NCAA recruiting manual, I am amazed there are not more violations.  It is like reading a state report but much more dry [...]

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Diving at Oneonta

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, Sports, tagged , , , , on 24 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I love to go to swim meets that are not at Maine-Endwell.  You see, my son is a diver, not a swimmer.  He does occasionally swim exhibition heats but he does not swim much.  He dives.  So why do I dislike going to home meets?  Maine-Endwell does not currently have a diving board for diving during swim meets. When my [...]

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Running Back U?

Posted in Collegiate Sports, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, Sports, tagged , , on 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Not exactly but a little known prep school in our backyard is known for the quality and number of running backs it has produced. I remember when Milford Academy was first getting started.  No one in the small upstate NY town of New Berlin was sure about the location in their town.  Townspeople, if I recall [...]

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Homecoming

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , on 1 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, last weekend was homecoming at my two son’s high school.  This means there was a week of events at school and then homecoming Saturday.  All fine and good but the weather, for the first time in my memory, canceled the annual parade. Homecoming week starts off with the Junior-Senior Reversal game.  The junior and [...]

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HBP – Hit by Pitch

Posted in Collegiate Sports, Just my Thoughts, Professional Sports, School Sports, Sports, tagged , , , , on 5 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So why is it news when Ozzie Guillen lets out that managers do tell pitchers to hit batters?  In my mind, and there are sports purists out there who will think this is blasphemy, this was a given.  I have watched it from Little League to high school through college and pros.  I have seen [...]

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Hydration

Posted in Family, Fitness, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, Sports, tagged , , , on 11 July 2008 | 2 Comments »

I know that hydration is extremely important to casual athletes, serious athletes, the young, the old.  Our bodies need water to help with the processes of daily life.  In the heat and humidity that signify summer in upstate NY, we may need water more than just when we are exercising.  Training people, and it is [...]

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CYO Volleyball

Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In my area, volleyball is a school sport that is now in the fall and is female only.  My sons have all loved to play volleyball and are very athletic.  Consequently, when the Catholic Youth Organization started a volleyball league that goes for about eight weeks in the spring, my kids jumped at the chance [...]

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Clarkson versus Michigan

Posted in Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , , on 3 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

My daughter and I, after watching both Clarkson and Michigan play on Friday, were sure this game was going to be a slaughter.  We figured that Michigan would easily beat Clarkson, possibly by enough early on that we could get an early start on the drive to East Syracuse. Like the shock that most Michigan [...]

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Niagara versus Michigan

Posted in Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged , , , , , on 29 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If there is to be a Cinderella in a hockey tournament, it would be Niagara.  Of the 16 teams playing in the NCAA tournament this year, Niagara is seeded 15th.  They are up against the number one team in their region, a team that had only five losses all season and 32 victories.  Pretty daunting! [...]

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