Great having Aaron Goldsmith, Play by Play Broadcaster for the PawSox, join the program last night. Can't wait to enjoy McCoy Sat. night.
www.pawsoxblog.mlblogs.com
@aaronmgoldsmith
Monday, May 21, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Sun., May 20th
DONALD HUBBARD
"100 Things Celtics Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die"
Donald Hubbard is a practicing attorney in Boston, where he published a weekly newspaper column for 10 years. He is the author of The Heavenly Twins of Boston Baseball, The Red Sox Before the Babe, Forgotten Four: Notre Dame's Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season, and 100 Things Patriots Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.
SEAN and MATT PLASSE
"The Brother's Plad"
http://www.wcax.com/story/17280145/vt-author-writes-book-for-dyslexic-kids
DAVE MILLER
(www.mvpcamp.com)
Dave Miller, Executive Director of the MVP Camp is an assistant coach for the New Orleans Hornets. He coached in the NCAA for 17 years and holds a Master's Degree in Sports Management. He and his outstanding staff have run basketball camps throughout the United States as well as overseas since 1989.
Coach Miller was considered one of the best recruiters in NCAA Basketball. In 1996, he was voted the "Most Visible Assistant Coach in the Country" by Hoop Scoop Magazine. After joining USC, he quickly established himself as one of the Pac-10's premier recruiters. According to Dick Vitale of ESPN, "Dave Miller implemented a national recruiting effort that helped put USC on the map nationally. He is credited with recruiting the 2000-2001 Elite 8 USC basketball team, a feat that had not been accomplished in 47 years."
"100 Things Celtics Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die"
Donald Hubbard is a practicing attorney in Boston, where he published a weekly newspaper column for 10 years. He is the author of The Heavenly Twins of Boston Baseball, The Red Sox Before the Babe, Forgotten Four: Notre Dame's Greatest Backfield and the 1953 Undefeated Season, and 100 Things Patriots Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.
SEAN and MATT PLASSE
"The Brother's Plad"
http://www.wcax.com/story/17280145/vt-author-writes-book-for-dyslexic-kids
DAVE MILLER
(www.mvpcamp.com)
Dave Miller, Executive Director of the MVP Camp is an assistant coach for the New Orleans Hornets. He coached in the NCAA for 17 years and holds a Master's Degree in Sports Management. He and his outstanding staff have run basketball camps throughout the United States as well as overseas since 1989.
Coach Miller was considered one of the best recruiters in NCAA Basketball. In 1996, he was voted the "Most Visible Assistant Coach in the Country" by Hoop Scoop Magazine. After joining USC, he quickly established himself as one of the Pac-10's premier recruiters. According to Dick Vitale of ESPN, "Dave Miller implemented a national recruiting effort that helped put USC on the map nationally. He is credited with recruiting the 2000-2001 Elite 8 USC basketball team, a feat that had not been accomplished in 47 years."
Saturday, May 12, 2012
9:40 PM Sun., May 13th
GLENN STOUT
A full-time author since 1993, since beginning a free-lance career in 1986 Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited more than eighty books representing sales of almost three million copies. He is the author of Boston Globe bestseller Fenway 1912, awarded the 2012 Seymour Medal by the Society for American Baseball Research, has served as Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991, is author of the award-winning “Good Sports” juvenile series and has written the text for thirty-nine titles in the best-selling Matt Christopher sports biography series for the juvenile market. Stout is also the author of the text for Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Changed the World, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century (selected by Book Magazine one of the five “Best Sports Books of 2002” and a finalist for the Casey Award), Red Sox Century (Casey Award finalist, Seymour Medal finalist, and finalist for the New England Book Award in non-fiction), Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life and Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and finalist for the Casey Award. He has also edited the anthologies Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection, Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection and Chasing Tiger: A Tiger Woods Reader. Stout also works as an editorial consultant for other authors, writes a monthly column for Boston Baseball and has published dozens of articles and columns in publications such as The New York Observer, ESPN.com, Runner’s World, The Sporting News, USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Baseball America, Sports Illustrated, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine, made numerous television and radio appearances on NPR, HBO, CNN, ESPN and other outlets. Stout has served as a Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Boston Public Library and spoken before groups such as the New York Historical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Old South Meeting House, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and others.
Glenn Stout is a native of Amlin, Ohio and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York with a degree in Creative Writing. From 1982 thru 1993 he worked at the Boston Public Library and in 1985 earned a Masters of Science degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. He has also worked as a janitor, a painter, a security guard, a construction worker and sold minor league baseball tickets. A full-time writer since 1993, Stout moved from Massachusetts to Vermont in 2003. He is an avid kayaker and photographer and plays the bodhran, a skin drum, in Irish sessions.
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A full-time author since 1993, since beginning a free-lance career in 1986 Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited more than eighty books representing sales of almost three million copies. He is the author of Boston Globe bestseller Fenway 1912, awarded the 2012 Seymour Medal by the Society for American Baseball Research, has served as Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991, is author of the award-winning “Good Sports” juvenile series and has written the text for thirty-nine titles in the best-selling Matt Christopher sports biography series for the juvenile market. Stout is also the author of the text for Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Changed the World, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century (selected by Book Magazine one of the five “Best Sports Books of 2002” and a finalist for the Casey Award), Red Sox Century (Casey Award finalist, Seymour Medal finalist, and finalist for the New England Book Award in non-fiction), Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life and Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and finalist for the Casey Award. He has also edited the anthologies Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection, Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection and Chasing Tiger: A Tiger Woods Reader. Stout also works as an editorial consultant for other authors, writes a monthly column for Boston Baseball and has published dozens of articles and columns in publications such as The New York Observer, ESPN.com, Runner’s World, The Sporting News, USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Baseball America, Sports Illustrated, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine, made numerous television and radio appearances on NPR, HBO, CNN, ESPN and other outlets. Stout has served as a Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Boston Public Library and spoken before groups such as the New York Historical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Old South Meeting House, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and others.
Glenn Stout is a native of Amlin, Ohio and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York with a degree in Creative Writing. From 1982 thru 1993 he worked at the Boston Public Library and in 1985 earned a Masters of Science degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. He has also worked as a janitor, a painter, a security guard, a construction worker and sold minor league baseball tickets. A full-time writer since 1993, Stout moved from Massachusetts to Vermont in 2003. He is an avid kayaker and photographer and plays the bodhran, a skin drum, in Irish sessions.
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10:05 PM Sun., May 13th
JOE DOUD
Assistant General Managerjoe@vermontlakemonsters.com
Joe joined the Lake Monsters staff in the summer of 2008 as a summer intern and returned in 2009 for the final week of the season to help renew season ticket holder packages. During the summer of 2010, Joe was a Group Sales Representative and also managed the gameday staff before being promoted to Assistant General Manager in September of 2010. He graduated with honors from Colby-Sawyer College with a major in Business Administration and minor in History. Joe grew up in Colchester, Vermont, graduating from Colchester High School in 2005.
Assistant General Managerjoe@vermontlakemonsters.com
Joe joined the Lake Monsters staff in the summer of 2008 as a summer intern and returned in 2009 for the final week of the season to help renew season ticket holder packages. During the summer of 2010, Joe was a Group Sales Representative and also managed the gameday staff before being promoted to Assistant General Manager in September of 2010. He graduated with honors from Colby-Sawyer College with a major in Business Administration and minor in History. Joe grew up in Colchester, Vermont, graduating from Colchester High School in 2005.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
This Sunday, March 18th, 2012
PAT WILLIAMS
(www.PatWilliamsMotivate.com)
Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. As one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include AllState, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, ING, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tyson Foods to name a few. Pat is also the author of over 55 books.
Pat served for seven years in the United States Army, spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization—two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office—and has also spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization. Since 1968, he has been in the NBA as general manager for teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia—including the 1983 World Champion 76ers—and now the Orlando Magic, which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA playoffs and five have made the NBA finals. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by Beckett’s, a national publication.
Pat has been an integral part of NBA history, including bringing the NBA to Orlando. He has traded Pete Maravich as well as traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, and Penny Hardaway, and he has won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins. He signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches, nine have become college head coaches while seven have become assistant NBA coaches.
Pat and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 24 to 37. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus all of the major television networks, The Maury Povich Show and Dr. Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power.
Pat teaches an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Orlando and hosts three weekly radio shows. In the last 13 years, he has completed 54 marathons—including the Boston Marathon 12 times—and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weightlifter, Civil War buff and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro, Tom Seaver and Goose Gossage.
Pat was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, earned his bachelors degree at Wake Forest University, and his master’s degree at Indiana University. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Demon Deacon baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He is also a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.
From Orlando Magic senior vice president and well-known leadership author, Pat Williams, comes a lifetime of leadership experience and study distilled into “the ultimate leadership manual.” LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE: The Seven Sides of Leadership for the 21st Century (Barbour Books, 2012) offers essential guidance drawn from leaders of history and the present—in business, sports, religion, and politics.
Williams has built a library of over 700 leadership books, and after reading all of them he has extracted all of the great insights, stories and practical advice those books contain. In the course of his extensive research on leadership, he became convinced that the fundamental principles of leadership excellence can be distilled into seven basic ingredients, seven profoundly practical insights into what it takes to be an outstanding leader.
(www.PatWilliamsMotivate.com)
Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. As one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include AllState, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, ING, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tyson Foods to name a few. Pat is also the author of over 55 books.
Pat served for seven years in the United States Army, spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization—two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office—and has also spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization. Since 1968, he has been in the NBA as general manager for teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia—including the 1983 World Champion 76ers—and now the Orlando Magic, which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA playoffs and five have made the NBA finals. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by Beckett’s, a national publication.
Pat has been an integral part of NBA history, including bringing the NBA to Orlando. He has traded Pete Maravich as well as traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, and Penny Hardaway, and he has won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins. He signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches, nine have become college head coaches while seven have become assistant NBA coaches.
Pat and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 24 to 37. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus all of the major television networks, The Maury Povich Show and Dr. Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power.
Pat teaches an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Orlando and hosts three weekly radio shows. In the last 13 years, he has completed 54 marathons—including the Boston Marathon 12 times—and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weightlifter, Civil War buff and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro, Tom Seaver and Goose Gossage.
Pat was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, earned his bachelors degree at Wake Forest University, and his master’s degree at Indiana University. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Demon Deacon baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He is also a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.
Leadership Excellence:
The Seven Sides of Leadership for the 21st CenturyBy Pat Williams with Jim Denney
Pat Williams has spent much of his life successfully leading others. The principles he shares on these pages are timeless examples that, when put into practice, will help us all achieve a more effective life of leadership.
New York Giants owner John Mara
Pat Williams is a survivor, an innovator, a motivator and, above all, a LEADER. He has written the new manual for leadership 2.0. Leadership Excellence transcends sports and should be required reading for anyone looking to inspire and motivate others.
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra
Williams has built a library of over 700 leadership books, and after reading all of them he has extracted all of the great insights, stories and practical advice those books contain. In the course of his extensive research on leadership, he became convinced that the fundamental principles of leadership excellence can be distilled into seven basic ingredients, seven profoundly practical insights into what it takes to be an outstanding leader.
Drawn from years of personal experience and hundreds of interviews by Williams, readers will be exposed to the “seven sides of leadership” that apply to leaders of any age, experience and setting:
- Vision
- Communication
- People skills
- Character
- Competence
- Boldness
- A servant’s heart
These seven principles produce results every time they are tried, and each is truly timeless; they are true in every era, in every field and in every successful leader.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
THIS Sun., Mar. 11, 2012
LORNE THOMSEN
(Waterbury LAX)
GARY BRACKETT
(www.garybrackett.com
www.garybrackett.org
@garybrackett58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51wfzpfBa0)
SAM PERKINGS
(www.onebidwonders.com
@onebidwonders)
Sam Perkins has had his finger on the pulse of the America East for the better part of a decade, starting his America East journey as a high school student and finishing it as a member of the media. During that time he has been in attendance for over 500 America East contests. He traces his passion for the America East back to a gray Sunday in March of 2002, when he watched Stijn Dhondt’s miracle buzzer-beater propel Boston University on to the America East championship game and NCAA Tournament, and Trevor Gaines leave his heart and soul on the court in Vermont’s upset loss. Widely regarded as the “America East insider” (or in other circles as “that guy who should really get a life”), Sam spent the previous 3 years as Hoopville.com’s America East beat writer and has established working relationships and friendships with a host of current and former America East players, coaches, administrators, and officials. Sam has had pieces published by the Associated Press, as well as several other publications and newspapers and worked as a correspondent for Boston.com. He has also been a featured guest on several sports talk radio shows, and is currently finishing a book entitled “Stronger at the Broken Places,” which he was co-authoring with the late Gaines, a close personal friend, and is now completing it posthumously in his honor. Sam resides in the greater Boston Area with his fianceé and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Journalism at Northeastern University.
ANNA GREARSON
(www.timesargus.com
@annagrearson)
(Waterbury LAX)
1960s, 70s and early 80s….inspired by family members…grandfather college coach and Hall of Fame, dad and uncle, high school and college coaches, two older cousins were college All-Americans
1985… finished HS, captained my team in Mass., All New England All-Star
1985-89… played four years at Princeton University, Division I
1990-95… coached at Gilman School, Baltimore MD while also teaching there
1996… Coached a HS team near Boston when finishing grad school
1997… Assistant Coach for UVM men who went to ECAC final that year
1998-2002… coached at CVU in Hinesburg
2003-present….moved to Waterbury, coached in Harwood program, first at HS, now with Waterbury youth
GARY BRACKETT
(www.garybrackett.com
www.garybrackett.org
@garybrackett58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51wfzpfBa0)
Gary Lawrence Brackett (born May 23, 1980 in Glassboro, New Jersey) is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Rutgers.
Brackett was signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2003. Brackett was a backup his first two years until he became a starter in 2005. That year he had 127 tackles, three interceptions and a sack. In 2006 he was named defensive capatain of the Colts and had 120 tackles. He started for the Colts in their Super Bowl XLI win over the Chicago Bears. In 2007 Brackett recorded 116 tackles and four interceptions. He recorded 99 tackles in both 2008 and 2009. He started for the Colts in their Super Bowl XLIV loss to the New Orleans Saints.
During a 16-month span, starting in 2003, Brackett lost his mother, father, and brother.
In 2009 Brackett was the 11th annual recipient of the Arthur S. Arkush Humanitarian Award, presented to an NFL player “whose contributions to the community and charitable organizations are especially outstanding.” He won the award for his work with the IMPACT Foundation, a charity he founded in the spring of 2007.
Married in 2010 to wife Ragan. They live in Indianapolis with their two beautiful children
Early years
Brackett attended Glassboro High School in Glassboro, New Jersey.. He was a two-time All-South Jersey selection, a two-time All-Group I choice, and a two-time All-Tri-County Conference choice.College career
Brackett was a walk-on to the Rutgers University football team. By his senior year, he was captain of the defensive team and won the team's defensive MVP honors.Professional career
Brackett was signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2003. Brackett was a backup his first two years until he became a starter in 2005. That year he had 127 tackles, three interceptions and a sack. In 2006 he was named defensive capatain of the Colts and had 120 tackles. He started for the Colts in their Super Bowl XLI win over the Chicago Bears. In 2007 Brackett recorded 116 tackles and four interceptions. He recorded 99 tackles in both 2008 and 2009. He started for the Colts in their Super Bowl XLIV loss to the New Orleans Saints.
Personal
During a 16-month span, starting in 2003, Brackett lost his mother, father, and brother.
In 2009 Brackett was the 11th annual recipient of the Arthur S. Arkush Humanitarian Award, presented to an NFL player “whose contributions to the community and charitable organizations are especially outstanding.” He won the award for his work with the IMPACT Foundation, a charity he founded in the spring of 2007.
Married in 2010 to wife Ragan. They live in Indianapolis with their two beautiful children
SAM PERKINGS
(www.onebidwonders.com
@onebidwonders)
Sam Perkins has had his finger on the pulse of the America East for the better part of a decade, starting his America East journey as a high school student and finishing it as a member of the media. During that time he has been in attendance for over 500 America East contests. He traces his passion for the America East back to a gray Sunday in March of 2002, when he watched Stijn Dhondt’s miracle buzzer-beater propel Boston University on to the America East championship game and NCAA Tournament, and Trevor Gaines leave his heart and soul on the court in Vermont’s upset loss. Widely regarded as the “America East insider” (or in other circles as “that guy who should really get a life”), Sam spent the previous 3 years as Hoopville.com’s America East beat writer and has established working relationships and friendships with a host of current and former America East players, coaches, administrators, and officials. Sam has had pieces published by the Associated Press, as well as several other publications and newspapers and worked as a correspondent for Boston.com. He has also been a featured guest on several sports talk radio shows, and is currently finishing a book entitled “Stronger at the Broken Places,” which he was co-authoring with the late Gaines, a close personal friend, and is now completing it posthumously in his honor. Sam resides in the greater Boston Area with his fianceé and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Journalism at Northeastern University.
ANNA GREARSON
(www.timesargus.com
@annagrearson)
Monday, February 20, 2012
Coaching
You do it to make a difference; but when it is all said and done, (at times) you wonder if you did.
Over a decade I have attempted to effectively model and teach life skills using a piece of leather filled with air. Playing on a team provides the opportunity for one to grow, mature and become one possessing incredible self-worth, commitment to another, understanding and applying discipline and accepting responsibility to become the best and make the team better.
Coaching 7th & 8th Grade boy's basketball has been one of the most challenging endeavors of my life.
Over a decade I have attempted to effectively model and teach life skills using a piece of leather filled with air. Playing on a team provides the opportunity for one to grow, mature and become one possessing incredible self-worth, commitment to another, understanding and applying discipline and accepting responsibility to become the best and make the team better.
Coaching 7th & 8th Grade boy's basketball has been one of the most challenging endeavors of my life.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, Feb. 19th, 2012
RICK BUKER
Most Penguins fans have taken in a game or two at the CONSOL Energy Center
100 Things Penguins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Rick Buker reveals the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams that are part of the storied history that is Penguins hockey. Scattered throughout the pages, you’ll find traditions, records, and Penguins lore to test your knowledge, including:
§ Who was involved in “The Trade” – the best trade in team history?
§ Which player tallied points in 46 consecutive games?
§ Who was the first Penguin to score 50 goals in a season?
§ Which player was nicknamed “Jack Lambert on Skates?”
Whether you’re a die-hard booster from the days of Jean Pronovost or a new supporter of Sidney Crosby, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do before they go to the Igloo in the sky.
If you bleed black and gold, then 100 Things Penguins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is for you. It offers the chance to be certain you are knowledgeable about the most important facts about the team, the traditions, and what being a Penguins fan is all about.
About the Author:
Rick Buker is the author of Total Penguins: The Definitive Encyclopedia of the Pittsburgh Penguins. An avid hockey fan and freelance writer, he earned a degree in business administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Upon his graduation, he accepted a position with Consolidated Natural Gas Company. Buker began his writing career in 1995 when he joined the company’s communications staff. He currently resides in the Steel City
Sunday, Feb. 19th, 2012
KEVIN ALLEN
In 1967, there were just two American-born players logging regular minutes in the NHL. More than 40 years later, the United States Massachusetts , Michigan , and Minnesota
Star-Spangled Hockey: Celebrating 75 Years of USA Hockey by veteran hockey writer Kevin Allen traces the history of hockey in the United States—spanning nearly a century from Hobey Baker’s emergence as a star at Princeton University in the early 1900s through Team USA’s bronze medal at 2011 World Junior Championship. Allen takes readers through the early highlights in American hockey history. Coached by Boston Eveleth , Minnesota
Star-Spangled Hockey includes an in-depth history of the USA ’s Olympic hockey program, including the “Miracle On Ice” 1980 team that won gold at Lake Placid . Mike Eruzione’s game-winning goal to beat the Soviets was a defining moment for the United States
With a foreword by Jeremy Roenick, one of the most colorful characters in the game, Star-Spangled Hockey utilizes first-hand accounts from some of the sport’s legendary figures to help readers fully understand the remarkable rise in prominence of American hockey over the past three quarters of a century.
About the Author:
Kevin Allen has been writing about hockey since 1986 and has covered more than 550 NHL playoff games. He has written about every level of hockey, from the NHL to the Olympics and the Women’s World Championship. He has authored and co-authored more than a dozen sports books, including Brett Hull’s as-told-to autobiography and Without Fear: The Greatest Goalies of All-Time. Allen is currently president of the Professional Hockey Writers Association. He lives with his wife, Terri, in Ypsilanti , Michigan
Sunday, Feb. 19th, 2012
“The John Madden you are about to discover is nothing at all like the person you think you know.”
- Pat SummerallNobody has had as much impact on the world of football in the last 50 years as John Madden. With incisive wit and superhuman energy, this one man football factory has seen and done it all. As a coach, he has the highest winning percentage in history, and he led the Oakland Raiders to a 1979 Super Bowl Championship. He followed that up by becoming the most beloved and popular football announcer in the country, experiencing unparalleled success in a broadcasting career that lasted for parts of four different decades.
In Madden, longtime sports columnist Bryan Burwell has written the first comprehensive biography of this living legend. From his days as a star athlete in Daly City , California
Madden is a behind-the-scenes look at the man who put the “Boom!” in our Sundays. From Al Davis and the Raiders to Canton
About the Author:
Bryan Burwell is an award-winning sports columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The author of two books, including At The Buzzer! The Greatest Moments in NBA History, Burwell’s work has also appeared in several sports anthologies, USA Today, the New York Daily News, The Sporting News, and Sports Illustrated. On television, Burwell is a regular contributor to ESPN’s The Sports Reporters and spent 14 years with HBO Sports. In 2007, he was the host and writer of a nationally syndicated TV documentary on the Negro baseball leagues called The Color of Change, which won two 2008 Telly Awards.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Sunday, Feb. 12th on WDeV AM & FM
Ross Bernstein
("Raising Lombardi")
Donald Hubbard
("100 Things Patriots Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die")
Robert Schnakenberg
("The Underground Football Encyclopedia")
Sean Grande
(Radio Voice of the Boston Celtics
@SeanGrandePBP)
Now in his fourteenth season in the NBA and eleventh as the voice of the Boston Celtics, Sean Grande’s epic account of the two-month run to the 2008 World Championship, and the classic Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals cemented his status as one of the nation’s elite play-callers. Sean, who now trails only the legendary Johnny Most as the longest-tenured radio voice of the Celtics, will be joined again by analyst Cedric Maxwell for all Boston Celtics games. For over a decade, “Grande and Max” have been one of Boston’s most popular and iconic on-air combinations. On February 3, 2012, they will call their 1,000th game together.
On December 3rd, 2009 in San Antonio, he called his 1000th NBA Game, joining NBA icon Marv Albert and Ian Eagle as the only three to reach that plateau before the age of 40.
Voted by the readers of Boston Sports Media Watch as the best play-by-play announcer in Boston, Sean was recruited back to New England in 2001 after serving three years as the television voice of the Minnesota Timberwolves. When he signed in 1998, he was the youngest announcer in the NBA, a distinction he would hold for three years. The versatile Grande’s play-byplay credits also include two seasons as part of ABC Sports College Football broadcast team, joining the likes of Keith Jackson and Brent Musburger. He returned to the national scene last September, calling the FIBA Americas tournament on ESPN.
Grande’s first stint in Boston began at Boston University where he spent seven seasons calling Terrier hockey, football and basketball on both television and radio. In 1996, he moved up Commonwealth Avenue to Boston College, as the voice of the Eagles football and hockey radio networks for three seasons until the NBA came calling. On the television side, Grande was the original voice of the Hockey East Game of the Week on Fox Sports Net. His renowned college hockey work for Fox and as the six-year television voice of the NCAA East Regional garnered him three New England Emmy nominations including the 1999 Emmy for best Play-by-Play. Now in his fourth decade of college hockey, Grande will call his eleventh NCAA Championship Game in April, 2011 as the “Voice of the Frozen Four” on CBS Radio.
A frequent guest on ESPN’s First Take and the B.S. Report, Grande’s broadcast career includes a sevenyear stint at WEEI (1991-1998), the final three as Sports Director. His wide-ranging play-by-play career has seen him call WNBA basketball for the Minnesota Lynx and Connecticut Sun, MFS Pro Tennis, Providence Bruins hockey, Harvard basketball and even Major League Soccer. He served three years as host of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on NHL radio and co-hosted the NCAA Hockey Selection show on ESPN2. In 2005, Grande became a recurring guest host of Comcast Sports Net’s “Sports Tonight”, and a regular contributor to WEEI. Sean made his major motion picture debut with a cameo, as himself, in the 2001 release “Joe Somebody” starring Tim Allen and his call of Ricky Davis’ buzzer-beater in November of 2005, was used as a soundtrack in a scene of the final season premiere of HBO’s “The Sopranos” in 2006. A regular contributor to Celtics.com, Grande’s made his debut on ESPN’s Grantland in November, 2011.
Grande lives in Cambridge, Mass. His first child, Jackson, was born in October.
("Raising Lombardi")
Donald Hubbard
("100 Things Patriots Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die")
Robert Schnakenberg
("The Underground Football Encyclopedia")
Sean Grande
(Radio Voice of the Boston Celtics
@SeanGrandePBP)
Now in his fourteenth season in the NBA and eleventh as the voice of the Boston Celtics, Sean Grande’s epic account of the two-month run to the 2008 World Championship, and the classic Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals cemented his status as one of the nation’s elite play-callers. Sean, who now trails only the legendary Johnny Most as the longest-tenured radio voice of the Celtics, will be joined again by analyst Cedric Maxwell for all Boston Celtics games. For over a decade, “Grande and Max” have been one of Boston’s most popular and iconic on-air combinations. On February 3, 2012, they will call their 1,000th game together.
On December 3rd, 2009 in San Antonio, he called his 1000th NBA Game, joining NBA icon Marv Albert and Ian Eagle as the only three to reach that plateau before the age of 40.
Voted by the readers of Boston Sports Media Watch as the best play-by-play announcer in Boston, Sean was recruited back to New England in 2001 after serving three years as the television voice of the Minnesota Timberwolves. When he signed in 1998, he was the youngest announcer in the NBA, a distinction he would hold for three years. The versatile Grande’s play-byplay credits also include two seasons as part of ABC Sports College Football broadcast team, joining the likes of Keith Jackson and Brent Musburger. He returned to the national scene last September, calling the FIBA Americas tournament on ESPN.
Grande’s first stint in Boston began at Boston University where he spent seven seasons calling Terrier hockey, football and basketball on both television and radio. In 1996, he moved up Commonwealth Avenue to Boston College, as the voice of the Eagles football and hockey radio networks for three seasons until the NBA came calling. On the television side, Grande was the original voice of the Hockey East Game of the Week on Fox Sports Net. His renowned college hockey work for Fox and as the six-year television voice of the NCAA East Regional garnered him three New England Emmy nominations including the 1999 Emmy for best Play-by-Play. Now in his fourth decade of college hockey, Grande will call his eleventh NCAA Championship Game in April, 2011 as the “Voice of the Frozen Four” on CBS Radio.
A frequent guest on ESPN’s First Take and the B.S. Report, Grande’s broadcast career includes a sevenyear stint at WEEI (1991-1998), the final three as Sports Director. His wide-ranging play-by-play career has seen him call WNBA basketball for the Minnesota Lynx and Connecticut Sun, MFS Pro Tennis, Providence Bruins hockey, Harvard basketball and even Major League Soccer. He served three years as host of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on NHL radio and co-hosted the NCAA Hockey Selection show on ESPN2. In 2005, Grande became a recurring guest host of Comcast Sports Net’s “Sports Tonight”, and a regular contributor to WEEI. Sean made his major motion picture debut with a cameo, as himself, in the 2001 release “Joe Somebody” starring Tim Allen and his call of Ricky Davis’ buzzer-beater in November of 2005, was used as a soundtrack in a scene of the final season premiere of HBO’s “The Sopranos” in 2006. A regular contributor to Celtics.com, Grande’s made his debut on ESPN’s Grantland in November, 2011.
Grande lives in Cambridge, Mass. His first child, Jackson, was born in October.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Jessica Camerato, CSNNE Reporter
www.Twitter.com/JCameratoNBA
Jessica comes to ComcastSportsNetNewEngland after being with WEEI.com. Previously she covered the Celtics and the NBA as a senior reporter for Hoopsworld. She is a member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association and is fluent in Spanish. Jessica entered the Boston sports scene in 2005 with the Red Sox Spanish Beisbol Network radio broadcast and currently talks Sox for Diehard magazine.
http://www.csnne.com/pages/camerato/0
www.Twitter.com/JCameratoNBA
Jessica comes to ComcastSportsNetNewEngland after being with WEEI.com. Previously she covered the Celtics and the NBA as a senior reporter for Hoopsworld. She is a member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association and is fluent in Spanish. Jessica entered the Boston sports scene in 2005 with the Red Sox Spanish Beisbol Network radio broadcast and currently talks Sox for Diehard magazine.
http://www.csnne.com/pages/camerato/0
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Kirk Minihane
www.weei.com/columnists/kirk-minihane
Kirk Minihane thinks "Slap Shot" is -- without argument -- the best sports movie ever made and is also convinced the 1985-86 Celtics would have finished with a record of 78-4 if they had cared about the regular season. He has been a columnist at WEEI.com since 2009 and is the co-host of "Sports Saturday" on WEEI.
Kirk Minihane thinks "Slap Shot" is -- without argument -- the best sports movie ever made and is also convinced the 1985-86 Celtics would have finished with a record of 78-4 if they had cared about the regular season. He has been a columnist at WEEI.com since 2009 and is the co-host of "Sports Saturday" on WEEI.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 29th
Gerry Lancaster
On November 11, 1970, Gerry Allen Lancaster Jr. was born to Diane Hall and Gerry Lancaster Sr. The eldest of three children, he and his siblings were raised by their mother and her family. Up until the age of nine, he grew up in a low-income, high-rise apartment in the inner city of New London, Connecticut. When his mother moved their family out of the Crystal Avenue projects, he experienced a culture a bit different from what he was used to in his early childhood years. However, he found participating in YMCA basketball programs helpful in keeping a balance with his old and new lifestyle. Although he had an interest in other sports during his childhood, he was encouraged to play basketball by family members who have played the game throughout their lives. An emphasis was put on his natural talent as well as his height. By the time he went to high school, he had received just about every award you could possibly achieve at that level. Living in an area that was statistically low for black males to graduate high school, he did in 1989 and was offered several college basketball scholarships.
The following year, he attended Champlain Junior College in Burlington, Vermont. During his two years at Champlain, his basketball team went to the national tournament twice. After earning an associate’s degree in social science, he attended James Madison University (JMU) located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a full scholarship. Gerry left JMU early to pursue a career in basketball in the European league. He played four years before a knee injury ended his career. Upon his return to Connecticut, he went to work for a childhood friend who was then playing basketball in the NBA. As his personal assistant for eleven years, and having been exposed to the life of a professional athlete personally, he witnessed unfortunate situations as a result of poor decision making. These experiences, if shared with others, might help them make better choices in their own lives.
The following year, he attended Champlain Junior College in Burlington, Vermont. During his two years at Champlain, his basketball team went to the national tournament twice. After earning an associate’s degree in social science, he attended James Madison University (JMU) located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a full scholarship. Gerry left JMU early to pursue a career in basketball in the European league. He played four years before a knee injury ended his career. Upon his return to Connecticut, he went to work for a childhood friend who was then playing basketball in the NBA. As his personal assistant for eleven years, and having been exposed to the life of a professional athlete personally, he witnessed unfortunate situations as a result of poor decision making. These experiences, if shared with others, might help them make better choices in their own lives.
The writing of NBA Blues was necessary to share these experiences, although he wanted to focus his attention on children that shared a similar life as his. As the founder of The Raise Our Selves Effectively (ROSE) Organization, he wants to provide our younger generation with the proper tools they need to be successful in whatever they dream of becoming. Whether it’s to become a professional athlete or a successful member of society, he wants to help them understand that they have the ability to achieve their goals. Through the programs that the ROSE offers, they can develop a strong mind, body, and soul that will enable them to not only achieve their goals but to protect and appreciate what they have accomplished.
When Gerry is not focused on work, he enjoys physical fitness activities, reading self-help and inner-peace books, and spending time with his three children.
When Gerry is not focused on work, he enjoys physical fitness activities, reading self-help and inner-peace books, and spending time with his three children.
The writing of NBA Blues was necessary to share these experiences, although he wanted to focus his attention on children that shared a similar life as his. As the founder of The Raise Our Selves Effectively (ROSE) Organization, he wants to provide our younger generation with the proper tools they need to be successful in whatever they dream of becoming. Whether it’s to become a professional athlet...e or a successful member of society, he wants to help them understand that they have the ability to achieve their goals. Through the programs that the ROSE offers, they can develop a strong mind, body, and soul that will enable them to not only achieve their goals but to protect and appreciate what they have accomplished.
As an urban contemporary narrative told in a compelling and engaging voice, NBA Blues serves as a guidebook for young professional athletes and their families caught up in the bittersweet taste of fame and blinded by the helter-skelter moments of success. Written in an educational and entertaining manner, readers will come across the story of a real baller, who is an Olympic Gold Medal Winner and ...four-time NBA All-Star player with earnings of more than a hundred million dollars. His story is told through the words of his friend, the author, Gerry Allen Lancaster. Sharply written and deftly entertaining, NBA Blues illustrates the story of a man with humble beginnings and who, later on, skyrocketed to great heights of fame and down the slippery slope of drugs, promiscuity and financial ruin.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Sunday, January 22nd:
Richard A. Johnson serves as the curator of the Sports Museum Boston 's four major sports franchises as well as the Boston Braves, Boston Garden
A native of Rome , New York , and a magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University
PEOPLE
The people I've met and the stories they've told.
As the full-time Life Bridge Mentoring - Central Vermont Area Dir. (www.lifebridgementoring.org; www.LBCentralVT.blogspot.com, www.Twitter.com/LBCentralVT), I have witnessed compelling people.
Being abandoned, adopted, rejected, accepted ... I've journeyed from Seoul, South Korea to Yakima, WA to Waterbury Center, VT to Grenada, New Brunswick, Canada, Ukraine, Pagosa Springs, CO, Mexico and back to New England ... the near 37 years I've lived provide perspective.
This one-in-a-million part-time job at WDeV is an amazing opportunity for me to express the incredible good fortune that is available for those who live by Faith and seek to pay it forward.
My sports rant and talk show is especially committed this 2012 to present the mystery, secret, wonder, what if, maybe and hope that we all desire.
Keep the Faith.
Believe.
As the full-time Life Bridge Mentoring - Central Vermont Area Dir. (www.lifebridgementoring.org; www.LBCentralVT.blogspot.com, www.Twitter.com/LBCentralVT), I have witnessed compelling people.
Being abandoned, adopted, rejected, accepted ... I've journeyed from Seoul, South Korea to Yakima, WA to Waterbury Center, VT to Grenada, New Brunswick, Canada, Ukraine, Pagosa Springs, CO, Mexico and back to New England ... the near 37 years I've lived provide perspective.
This one-in-a-million part-time job at WDeV is an amazing opportunity for me to express the incredible good fortune that is available for those who live by Faith and seek to pay it forward.
My sports rant and talk show is especially committed this 2012 to present the mystery, secret, wonder, what if, maybe and hope that we all desire.
Keep the Faith.
Believe.
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