Football Off To A Shaky Start Here

Football is off to a shaky start here in the Ocean State. Rhode Island’s favorite pro team was humiliated in its season opener last week, its flagship state university is 0-2, and its top business school lost by eight touchdowns last Saturday. The good news is that the Ocean State’s Ivy League entry at long last kicks off its season on Saturday, and its Division III team is undefeated. Let’s proceed in reverse order. Salve Regina University, the consistent winner from Newport, is 2-0 after victories over Worcester State Montclair State of New Jersey. The Seahawks won each game by a touchdown. They will play at Dean on Saturday. Brown launches its 140 th season Saturday afternoon at Brown Stadium against Bryant. The pre-game story line is Bryant’s rookie head coach, James Perry, matching wits against his college coach, Phil Estes. Perry was Brown’s record-smashing quarterback in the late 1990s and as a senior led Brown to the 1999 Ivy League championship in Estes’s second year as a head

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Red Sox, PawSox And Patriots

As summer fades to fall, the Red Sox – Boston and Pawtucket – and the Patriots dominate the sports news. Here is my take on three hot topics. RED SOX: SNAP OUT OF IT! The Red Sox could have all but clinched the A.L. East title with a decent weekend in New York, but no, they seem determined to do it the hard way, if they do it at all. They lost three of four in the Bronx and returned home with a shaky 3½-game lead over the Yankees. Then, on Monday night, they took a 10-4 beating from Toronto. LAST PLACE Toronto, for Pete’s sake! Now the lead is 2½ games, thanks to that loss and New York’s victory at Baltimore. What in the name of Big Papi is going on up there in Boston? Rick Porcello, a 24-game winner and Cy Young recipient in 2016, pitched his way closer to a 20-loss season Monday night when he threw three home run balls to the Jays, raising his total to 35 for the season. He is 9-16. Chris Sale, a lock for the American League Cy Young Award at the All-Star break, has been horrible in

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