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NYC Sports Fans: A Spoiled Bunch
Even Spike is spoiled...although, being a Knicks fan does mean he's suffered too.
New York City is considered the center of the universe. Ask any native New Yorker, they’ll be all too happy to tell you. It is a city where you can do almost anything, see almost anything, eat almost anything, and meet almost anyone. Choices are abundant here. And, for the most part, that is a great opportunity.
Until it comes to sports.
Let’s look at all the teams in the New York Metro area. For sake of argument, the New York Metro area will consist of teams that are geographically located within New York City (all five boroughs), on Long Island, and in the eastern New Jersey area (the Meadowlands, specifically). Baseball fans side with either the New York Yankees or the New York Mets. Football fans can pick between the New York Giants or the New York Jets (neither of which play in NY, mind you). Hockey fans hit the trifecta with the New York Rangers, New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils. And let’s not forget about basketball fans who can either root for the New York Knicks or the New Jersey (for now) Nets (expected to move to Brooklyn for 2012-2013 season).
Aftermath of “The Crash” – Boston Sports Will Survive
In my 32 years, I’ve seen a lot of highs and lows in Boston sports, but this September might have been as low as it got. With a 9-game lead in the Wild Card standings on September 3rd, the Sox looked like they were destined for the playoffs and an eventual showdown with the Evil Empire in the Bronx. But, they somehow managed to blow it. Was it pitching? Was it hitting? Was it coaching? Maybe the GM? Or were the players just complacent and not “hungry?” We’ll probably never know. What we do know is that it most likely is going to cost Terry Francona his job (dumb move in my opinion) and may be the catalyst Theo Epstein uses to leave Boston for greener pastures…if you call a franchise that has an even bigger World Series drought than the Red Sox ever had (103 years for the Chicago Cubs for those of you not in the know) greener pastures.
UMass Makes The Move!
Robert Holub, Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, sent the following email to UMass Amherst campus community and alumni network this afternoon.
The UMass Amherst Football Team will be moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) in 2013 as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). We talked about what this move means a lot on this site and I for one could not be happier! More on this great news over the next few days.
I am thrilled to inform you of an exciting new development in our athletics program: We are announcing today, at a news conference at Gillette Stadium, that the University of Massachusetts Amherst football program has accepted an invitation to join the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and, as a result, is moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). This move is made possible in part due to the support of the Kraft family, who have offered use of Gillette Stadium for the majority of our home games – and marks our entry into the premier subdivision in college football.
UMass Comments on Potential FBS Move
UMass Athletic Director John McCutcheon had this to say today regarding the football team’s potential move to FBS:
There are several dominoes that have to fall. Some of them have and some of them are lined up. But we still have several issues that need to be addressed and hurdles to clear for this to happen,” he said. “I think there’s some excitement about that and I think there’s some frustration out there that we can’t announce something quicker than we’ve been able to. It’s a process. There are things in that process that are out of our control. It’s been an issue that’s been talked about here for years and years. To be this close to that possibility has to be creating some excitement.
Posted in Football, Sports
Tagged college football, FBS, FCS, football, UMass, UMass Minutemen
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Thoughts on Burke Mountain
We spent a whole week here on BDR building up to the 2011 WICed Fest Snowboard trip to Burke Mountain earlier this month. The first post was a video showing the Dashney Mile terrrain park and the series culminated with a video highlighting the WICed Fest’s 2009 Snowboard Trip to Burke Mountain. This video series did a great job of amping up our group to shred Burke and boy did we! But, how did we like the mountain. That question has been asked of me more than once since my return. Rather than go into a long, drawn out review of the moutnain, I’ll give you the Cliff Note’s version of my review below. If you’re interested in a more thorough review, you can read one that I wrote over at ActionXSportsNews.com.
Posted in Snowboarding, Sports
Tagged ActionX, ActionX Sports News, Burke Mountain, shred burke, ski burke, Vermont, WICed Fest, YouTube
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Snowboard | Gone Snowboarding…
BDR will be experiencing some radio silence this week as our fearless leader takes the WICed Fest crew to enjoy some shred time at Burke Mountain in Vermont
Posted in Snowboarding, Sports
Tagged Burke, Burke Mountain, postaweek2011, Snowboard, snowboarding, Vermont, WICed Fest
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Snowboard | Build-up To Burke Trip – Day #7
It all culminates in this video! The recap of the 2009 WICed Fest Snowboard Trip to Burke Mountain!
Posted in Snowboarding, Sports
Tagged Burke, Burke Mountain, postaweek2011, Snowboard, snowboarding, Vermont, WICed Fest, YouTube
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