Mark McGuire
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Schenectady, NY, United States
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Patsos will try, and fail, and try again
For better or worse, don't ask him to not take chances on players → Read More
Predictions: Your 2018 sports year
A little more than two weeks ago, a staffer submitted our daily high school roundup for publication. Buried in the series of games was Glens Fall vs. Amsterdam boys’ basketball, in which Joe Girard III exploded for 60 points. “Do you think that belongs, I don’t know, a little higher?” I asked. “But it’s not much more than his average,” the clerk countered. He had a point. For Girard, regularly… → Read More
A winning weekend: Union men's hockey ties North Dakota
Tie follows Friday night win on road against No. 3 team → Read More
Niskayuna's Hanks sisters reuniting at field hockey final four
Carrie plays for Division I Maryland; Jenn, a former Skidmore player, coaches at Division III F&M → Read More
Arena Football League returning to Albany
To replace an old tenant, the Times Union Center is looking to an older one. The Arena Football League is coming back to Albany. → Read More
Ed Barnowski, major leaguer and Mont Pleasant legend, dies
Ed Barnowski, a local pitching legend who led Mont Pleasant to an undefeated season in 1960 and later hurled for the Baltimore Orioles, died Tuesday. The Naples, Florida, resident was 74. His death was reported by Don Blaha, president of the Schenectady Ole Timers Baseball Club, to which Barnowski belonged, and childhood friend Tony Rossi, the Siena baseball coach. "He was one of the best, if… → Read More
Union falls to Boston University 4-1
BOSTON — For the first official day of the season, instead of holding practice, the No. 16 Union College men’s hockey team squared-off against No. 2 Boston University. Despite both teams being evenly matched, special teams was the difference maker as the Terriers used two power-play goals and two empty-net goals to defeat Union, 4-1, Saturday night at Agganis Arena. There were a total of nine… → Read More
No more talk: More netting now
Toddler getting injured by foul ball at Yankee Stadium just latest incident of fans being wounded by projectiles → Read More
Robert Lee ESPN story says something sad — about all of us
Robert Lee, best known locally for his standout work doing play-by-play for Siena basketball, was switched off calling a Virginia football game by ESPN because he shares the name with Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. → Read More
A final NFL mock draft
For those who follow and try to mock the NFL draft, this is when you put down your pencils, close the 37 browser windows you have opened and admit the truth: You don't don't know. You can't know. Not any year, and especially not this year, where the confusion starts with the second pick -- throw a dart at five names -- and gets murkier from there. → Read More
Mock NFL draft 1.0: New York teams go offense
With the NFL draft still more than two weeks away (starting April 27, this year in Philadelphia), this is a mere snapshot of how it could play out, one among the thousands floating around the Internet. Just remember one thing: None of those thousands, including this one, will be 100-percent accurate. Which makes the draft so fascinating to NFL fans. Here we go . . . 1. Cleveland Browns: Myles… → Read More
Welcome to National Sports Gorging Day
Don’t try to reach me today, unless it’s to buy a round. It’s a day off. It should be a national sports holiday. More than the Super Bowl. I always work that day. Until the New York Jets make it to one. Which means I always work that day. But not this day, the best of sports days, smack in the middle of the best of periods on the sports calendars. Spring collides with winter, with the… → Read More
Union's Taylor signs with Penguins
SCHENECTADY — And so it begins, the transition from a Dutchman to a Penguin. Union defenseman Jeff Taylor of Clifton Park has been signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins to a two-year, entry-level contract, team executive vice president and general manager Jim Rutherford announced today. Taylor, a senior alternate captain on the Dutchmen team knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by Penn State Saturday… → Read More
Freihofer's Run director Regan steps down
ALBANY — George Regan, who grew the Freihofer’s Run for Women into a 5K race that had national and international distinction, is stepping down after 35 years running the event, it was announced today. He will be be replaced by a trio — a testament to the large role played by one of the most significant behind-the-scenes figures in Capital Region sports. → Read More
Don't charge Devils with this loss
ALBANY — Don’t blame greedy sports owners, backing up the moving trucks in the middle of the night. Don’t blame the arena or Albany County, which offered every amenity and more that clubs asked for, from a state-of-the-art locker room and workout facilities to proximity to parent clubs. And don’t blame the product. The American Hockey League is arguably the second-best league in the world, one… → Read More
Column: Christmas with the McGuires
The perennial debate, usually commencing as the last of the fall leaves fall, centers on the Christmas tree. Not the type of tree. We all want big, angel-scraping-her-head-on-the-ceiling big, and full, taking up a large corner of the living room. And real. Don't get me started on fake trees, although I'm not saying you're bad people if you get one. (Yes, I am.) No, it's when to get the tree. → Read More
Prepare to pay steep price for Albany Cup ticket
The Daily Gazette - Schenectady, NY. Locally owned voice of the capital region. → Read More
UAlbany football doesn't get FCS Playoff bid
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Former Skidmore lacrosse coach dies suddenly
Died on recruiting trip. → Read More
Runaway buffalo cause commotion in Bethlehem
The buffalo, technically bison, roamed and rampaged and forded the Thruway and apparently before that the Hudson River. In their final hours Friday, before being felled in a hail of rifle fire that Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple bemoaned as something out of “the Wild West,” media, police and other officials tracked the herd from the ground and air. → Read More