FOX23 Community

No sports talk in this space today, instead I want to tell you about a special event coming up for a very special person. His name is Jaden Weeks.  He would have been 9 years old in November. (Picture taken by Daily Gazette photographer) I knew...

I'd like to think it was my blog that lit a fire under Siena.   That would be ridiculous, as there are only a handful in this business who think they are important enough to have that happen., and they know who they are. I am not one of...

Fran McCaffery wasn't going to Arizona or Memphis or Washington State.  With only those jobs open, there was time. Now there's not. Sean Miller took care of that with the announcement today that he was taking the Arizona job.  Good for...

Check this out.. The $1,500,000,000 (that's 1-point-5 billion) price tag on Yankee Stadium would cover the school budget for the city of Schenectady for the next 9 years, and that's without the proposed reductions. For that, what do we get? Well, if...

Welcome back.. hope you read along on our Siena website as we blogged about the Saints trip to Dayton.  Great showing by the team, but now it's on to other things and a return to blogging here. I am awaiting the start of the Kentucky press conference...

Couple of quick thoughts as we get set for semifinal Sunday in local college basketball... what a surprising Saturday is was.. for both Siena and UAlbany. The Danes obviously pulled the biggest surprise, beating Vermont in overtime.  It was exactly...

Two tournaments, one town, where do you end up this weekend?  Perhaps both? If you were planning to check out both Siena and UAlbany Saturday, you fans can thank the America East, the tournament that was first to book its 2009 tournament here. ...

Conference call day is here!  The annual chat with the MAAC coaches the Monday before the MAAC tournament.  Sometimes humorous, often tedious, here's a read on what the coaches had to say on a variety of topics. Canisius – Tom Parrotta(9th...

You play for the team with the best regular season record in the league.  You can stay with that team and make around $10 million a year. --or-- You can play for a team that finished last in its division (albeit 8-8), a team that started 6-2 and...

Tonight is the one of the busiest sports nights of the season.  44 high school basketball teams will tip off the playoff season, 11 games on the boys side, 11 on the girls side.  Tomorrow, it's an even larger schedule, 70 teams...

Happy to be able to say the River Rats will all be okay.  What a scene that must have been, the entire team standing in the median of the Mass Pike trying to figure out if they all survived. Before we go too far, I want to say what a trememdous...

After a few days away from the computer(Rangers game with my daughter and 2 friends on Sunday, then a trip to Vermont to take the kids to my in-laws for vacation week), I return to watch Alex Rodriguez sitting in Andy Pettitte's Tampa hot seat. Today...

I really tried to think of something sporting to write today, but like Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...nothing!!! Instead I sit here bouncing two very unreleated things around the inside of my skull.  They have nothing to do...

Brett Favre says he's done this time.  Do we believe him.  Based on all the things he said yesterday in a conference call, it seems as if he's really done.  He did not ask the Jets for a release which would allow him to sign with another...

Spent most of yesterday(Tuesday) at Gore Mountain covering the Section II Alpine Ski Meet.  While I know little about skiing(my wife and kids love it), it sure seemed as if we have some pretty talented skiiers in Section II.  Special thanks...

"I did take a banned substance. For that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful." Now I believe Alex Rodriguez used some type of steroid.  I heard him say it several times on ESPN.  The Yankee slugger told ESPN's Peter Gammons exactly that today...

In 2003, Alex Rodriguez used 2 types of performance enhancing drugs, testosterone and an anabolic steroid known by the brand name Primobolan. So says Sports Illustrated in a report later confirmed by the New York Times, two publications that have earned...

Today is Henry Aaron's birthday.  The hall of famer is 75 years old.  It's also a day where Barry Bonds is once again taking a spot on the front page of newspapers acrossed the country. One great home run hitter and citizen, one disgrace to...

Could Manny Ramirez and his agent Scott Boras think so much of the sluggers ability that they'd sit out an entire season? Seems to be they're running out of teams who have the money that Manny feels he deserves. The Los Angeles Times says Manny/Boras...

While there are many reasons why the Patroons season is ending well over a month early, I experienced one of them last night. I had a free night and decided to take my kids to the game.  Micheal Ray Richardson, who I like, was back in town and I...

If I am an Arizona Cardinals fan today, I'm pretty ticked.  Not only did my team lose, they didn't even get their last chance to win the game.  What happened to replay on what ended up being the last play of the game. Let's review.  Kurt...

It really should not come as a shock giving some of the silly decisions the State of New York makes and then tries to rationalize. But even though they have "New York State" in their title, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association is...

Kenny Hasbrouck said it wasn't his best performance - but it sure was in the top 5.  Siena head coach Fran McCaffery blew a gasket last night in Siena's rout of Canisus. Unfortunately I did not get to see it live, but I saw it on tape from a few...

There's no way Joe Torre needs the money, but really what other motivation could there be for a, by all accounts classy guy, to participate in writing a book that rips former his former players and ballclub. The book, co-authored by the well-respected...

Technology...ain't it great? Not so much if you coach football or baseball at UAlbany.  Sending a huge number of text messages put the U in violation of one of the 17 trillion ever-changing  NCAA rules on recruting. According to the school,...