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10:42 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson  Email
Usually, I just ignore nonsense such as the following, but it's so stupid it begs to be addressed,,, Here's a quote from a reader,......
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10:07 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - A late-game meltdown has caught the Providence Friars in their trip to Alabama. The Friars led by a point with 70......
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9:29 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Providence and Purdue are the only major conference opponents on Alabama's home non-league schedule but Tide fans weren't exactly excited about the game. The......
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8:55 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
The Friars are leading Alabama at the half, 37-33. Marshon Brooks is not only healthy, he's playing superbly. He leads the Friars with 14......
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7:36 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Starting center Bilal Dixon enjoyed one of the best first games of any Friar in PC's season-opening win over Bryant last week. Dixon scored......
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7:32 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
The Friars' schedule for 2010-11 is not complete but most of the major games are accounted for. Alabama will be coming back to Providence......
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7:25 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Barring any unforeseen injury, Kadeem Batts will sit and watch his teammates this season. Batts, a 6-8, 230-pound freshman from Powder......
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6:51 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
We're here in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and getting ready for Providence-Alabama at 8 p.m. A quick news nugget on PC's Marshon Brooks. He is warming......
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12:02 PM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
After a week of games, the 16 Big East teams are a collective 35-0. So who goes down first? A few Big East teams......
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11:25 AM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
For those of us old enough to remember when Brown, URI, and Friars all played each other twice a year, home-and-home, it was great......
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11:09 AM Fri, Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
Even though the Ivy Leaguers from Cornell beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa, it's not surprising that the undefeated (3-0), but inexperienced, Friars are 5-1/2-point underdogs......
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9:19 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Sophomores Jamal Wilson and Orion Outerbridge came off the bench Wednesday to lead a second-half surge that carried the University of Rhode Island to......
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8:14 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Brown and URI have played a one-point game in the first half here at The Pizzitola Center. URI leads, 31-30, at the break after......
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7:14 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Jimmy Baron is off to an excellent start in his pro basketball career. The URI grad is the leading scorer in the Turkish Basketball......
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7:07 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Swine flu concerns have impacted the Brown team for Wednesday night's game against URI. Tucker Halpern, a 6-foot-8 freshman forward from Sudbury, Mass., has......
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6:42 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
Less than an hour before game time, tickets are virtually sold out for Wednesday night's Brown-URI game at The Pizzitola Center. Both teams are......
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5:20 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The woman accused of trying to extort money from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino was charged Wednesday with retaliating against the......
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1:50 PM Wed, Nov 18, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Marshon Brooks, PC's leading scorer after the opening three games of the season, is still nursing a sore ankle. Brooks twisted his foot in......
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9:32 PM Tue, Nov 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Pamela Reinsel Cotter Email
Journal file photo / Ernie Calverley celebrates with his URI team and fans The "shot heard 'round the world," launched by Rhode Island's Ernie......
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4:23 PM Mon, Nov 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Former Providence coach Tim Welsh will be part of ESPN's second annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon. The lineup features 12 consecutive live college basketball......
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6:33 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - Sharaud Curry and James Florence can both point to some long, competitive practice sessions back in high school in Georgia as the......
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6:21 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Jamine `Greedy' Peterson enjoyed a massive rebounding game for the Friars against Mercer but he knows he still has higher marks to shoot for.......
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6:18 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Malcolm Delaney scored 21 points and Jeff Allen added 17 as Virginia Tech opened the season with a 69-55 victory over......
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6:16 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - For the longest time on Sunday, it seemed as if Marshon Brooks was headed for the game of his dreams. Brooks came......
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4:38 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
By KEVIN McNAMARA PROVIDENCE - The Providence College Friars nearly let a chance at a title slip away Sunday but hung on and edged......
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3:25 PM Sun, Nov 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - The Providence Friars - and especially Marshon Brooks - have come out strong and lead Mercer University at the half, 47-32. Brooks......
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9:49 PM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PC improved to 2-0 with its win over Bucknell but now faces an impressive Mercer team on Sunday. Then comes a trip to Alabama......
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8:19 PM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - It wasn't easy and it certainly wasn't pretty but the Providence Friars have just hung on and beaten Bucknell, 76-65, in their......
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7:18 PM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Playing poised on offense and tough on defense, Bucknell is giving PC all it can handle and more tonight at the Dunk. The Bison......
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6:21 PM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
After playing Providence College is its first two seasons as a Division One school, Bryant University is not going to face the Friars again......
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4:49 PM Sat, Nov 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - The Friars were expecting several of the top New England high school players Saturday. The biggest target is Andre Drummond, a 6-10......
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10:09 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - It's only one game but a pattern of quick-trigger, downtown bombing is emerging for the Providence Friars. As they did in exhibition......
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9:23 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - The Providence College Friars jumped on Bryant University in the opening minutes and never let up on its way to a dominating......
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8:38 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Providence College has jumped all over Bryant and leads, 50-18, after one half of the World Vision Invitational. The Friars held Bryant to 32......
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8:09 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
After noting yesterday that I'd never heard of the University of the Sciences, in Philadelphia, I heard from the school's sports information director, the......
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7:44 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Former St. Andrew's star Rakim Sanders, from Pawtucket, has been suspended by Boston College for the season's first two games, tonight against Dartmouth and Tuesday......
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7:36 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Mike McDermott Email
Keno Davis is an open proponent of red-shirting young players and he's clearly thinking about sitting another freshmen this season. The final decision doesn't have......
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7:30 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - James Florence and Sharaud Curry are old friends. On Sunday, they'll finally get a chance to meet up with each other as......
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7:03 PM Fri, Nov 13, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - Mercer saw senior guard James Florence pour home 33 points and lead the team to a 89-80 win over Bucknell in the......
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10:04 PM Thu, Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
Kudos to Jim Baron and the Rhody Rams for again hosting Rhode Island College in an exhibition game at the Ryan Center. It's a......
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9:32 PM Thu, Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
I'm going to take a wild guess here, but I'm willing to wager that Brown is the only college in the country this year......
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7:06 PM Thu, Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jim Donaldson Email
No, not this year. The very young Friars are tabbed to finish 13th of 16 in the perennially-powerful Big East Conference. It's in 2014,......
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2:03 PM Thu, Nov 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - Providence College senior guard Sharaud Curry has been nominated for the Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year award. Previous winners......
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4:31 PM Wed, Nov 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - PC coach Keno Davis has received all three letter-of-intent he was expecting on the first day of the early signing period. PC......
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5:40 PM Tue, Nov 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Kenyon Email
The URI basketball team will begin its season without forward Ben Eaves. The wrist injury he suffered in practice last week is serious enough......
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2:15 PM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
PROVIDENCE - With an eye towards Rhode Island's struggling economy, Providence College has announced that it is offering $5 tickets for all non-Big East......
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10:41 AM Fri, Nov 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Former Brown coach Craig Robinson has swooped into New Jersey and squired away one of that state's top prospects for his new program out......
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1:02 PM Thu, Nov 05, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Matt Mullery, a senior center at Brown and one of the top returning players in the Ivy League, was named one of 30 candidates......
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9:50 AM Wed, Nov 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
Former Bryant coach Max Good always used to say that the difference between a good Div. 2 team and Div. 1 is very, very......
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9:35 AM Mon, Nov 02, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Kevin McNamara Email
By KEVIN McNAMARA Journal Staff BARRINGTON - Michael Carter-Williams, a 6-5 guard now in his junior year at St. Andrews in Barrington, has given......
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