Behind the Mic: Feel-Good Stories
After spending around ten hours on the road this past weekend driving to Worcester, Massachusetts, and watching Lafayette get beaten badly by Holy Cross 42-0, I was not in a very good mood as I sat down to write this week’s blog. After all, the Leopards, who have been completely decimated by injuries this season…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Athlete & Game of the Week
It has always been the mission of the “RCN SportsTalk” show to provide news and information on more than just the “big” sports. While football, basketball and wresting receive the most feedback from viewers, and the professional and major college teams resonate with the widest audience, we have gone to great lengths to make sure…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Saquon Barkley
October 17th was a rare Saturday for me. Campus Insiders, an internet sports streaming group affiliated with the Patriot League, was granted the rights to the Lafayette-Harvard game. There were slim pickings among the high school match-ups, so we all took the day off, a circumstance usually unheard of at this time of the year. …
Read MoreBehind the Mic: …There Were Six
Agatha Christie, the mystery writer par excellence, once penned a terrific “whodunit”, which was considered her masterpiece – And Then There Were None. In that book ten characters (all of whom were part of someone else’s death) are brought to an island and one by one they are killed. Over 100 million copies of this…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Biggest Philly/DC Disappointments
Many national pundits had the Eagles going to the Super Bowl this year, and the Nationals were odds-on favorites to win the pennant. The Birds were flirting with what could have been a catastrophic 1-4 start to their season (it was looking that way following Sam Bradford‘s second red-zone interception in the first half against…
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