College FootballHoly Cross adds Northern Illinois, University of Rhode Island to slateThe Holy Cross football team added games against Northern Illinois and the University of Rhode Island to future schedules.The Crusaders will play at Northern Illinois on Aug. 30, 2025, and against the Rams on Aug. 31, 2024 in Kingston, R.I., and on Sept. 27, 2025 at Fitton Field.The game at Northern Illinois will be the first between the programs […]
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Lauren Manis excited to begin WNBA journey with Las Vegas Aces after storied career at Holy Cross
Lauren Manis found out from her agent last week that there was a “very slight chance” she could be selected in the 2020 WNBA Draft.”I didn’t even think that was an option,” said Manis, who this season firmly established herself as one of the best players in Holy Cross basketball history and was hopeful of playing professionally overseas next year. “I didn’t think it was a possibility for me to get drafted.”Just in case, though, Manis and her parents, Gregg […]
Hometeam: Schedules coming together as St. Paul athletic department takes shape
Things are slowly — as one would expect in these trying and troubling times — starting to fall into place for the St. Paul Diocesan Junior-Senior High School athletic department.Other than looking for a game here or there, athletic director Jim Manzello said the fall schedule is 95 percent set for the merged institution between Holy Name and St. Peter-Marian, which is scheduled to open at the current Holy Name campus in late August or early September. […]
Baseball: Hindsight provides appreciation of fine Sox
The events of the last few weeks have taught us how easy it is to take some things for granted. At this point in time, watching a 10-0 baseball game that lasts for four hours sounds good. Appreciation is always greater in hindsight.With that in mind, here is one opinion of the most underappreciated Red Sox players of the last 50 years, or since 1970:1, Bob Stanley, 1977-89Nobody in Red Sox history has been mis-remembered more than Stanley, […]
Hometeam awards turn to star-studded streaming broadcast
WORCESTER — The Telegram & Gazette is changing its annual Best of Hometeam High School Sports Awards banquet from a physical event to a star-studded, on-demand streaming broadcast that will be available at no charge at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 18.The show will feature more than 20 professional athletes as hosts and award announcers, and provide the community with an on-demand broadcast to maintain the annual tradition of honoring and celebrating hundreds of student- […]
WNBA Draft: Las Vegas selects HC’s Lauren Manis; Ionescu goes No. 1
NEW YORK — Oregon star Sabrina Ionescu was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft, as expected.When she’ll play for the New York Liberty is unclear.With sports on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was a draft Friday night like no other with players in their own homes instead of a central location, commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced selections from her home in New Jersey, holding up the jersey of the player being chosen.“Of course it […]
