Tyler Salk
If you haven’t heard yet, the University of Rhode Island Rams basketball team is good. Like REALLY good. Entering last week, the best team in New England found themselves ranked their highest in program history, at 16 (or 14 depending on which ranking system you prefer). With two games played over Valentine’s week, the team found themselves with the longest winning streak in the entire nation (16 games) following an eighteen point win over the Richmond Spiders, after fifth ranked Cincinnati fell to the University of Houston.
Michael Parente
It's not so much the fact Ray Oliveira Jr. is headlining a fight card for the first time in his career that has him a little more amped up than usual for Friday night's event at Twin River Casino. It's the fact he's bringing his hometown with him. The 27-year-old Oliveira Jr. (9-1, 1 KO) is one of three fighters from New Bedford, Mass., appearing on Friday's 2018 season opener for CES Boxing, joining welterweight Wilson Mascarenhas and featherweight Efren Nunez. In his 11th professional bout -- all under the promotional guidance of CES Boxing -- Oliveira Jr. stars in the main event against well-known New Haven, Conn., veteran Edwin Soto (11-2-2, 4 KOs), an eight-round bout for the vacant World Boxing Union (WBU) Canadian-American-Mexican Super Welterweight Title.
Get ready to grab your favorite superhero outfit (you know you have one), because AIDS Project Rhode Island has announced that its annual AIDS Walk for Life event will take place Saturday, April 21, 2018, starting at the Roger Williams Park Carousel, and will, for the first time, include a 5K run.
The theme for this year’s event is “It Takes a Team of Heroes to Get to Zero” and encourages participants to dress as their favorite superhero—or create one of their own.
Ryan L. Fox
It one of the greatest honors bestowed upon a professional athlete in any sport to have their jersey number retired. It signifies that out of all the players that came and went, you stuck out and were special to the organization you played for. That you were the best player not just when it came to the statistics but as a leader. An organization that is quite well known for retiring jersey numbers are the Boston Celtics of the NBA and rightfully so. They had a history of great players from all different eras of basketballs such as Bill Russell, Larry Bird, John Havelicek, Bob Cousy, K.C. and Sam Jones, JoJo White, David Cowan, Robert Parish, and many more. This past Monday, another former Celtic player’s jersey number joined their ranks as Paul Pierce had his #34 jersey retired. Now don’t get me wrong, Paul Pierce was pretty good player for the Celtics, especially during the mid-2000s. But does he deserve to have his jersey retired up in the rafters with the other Celtics greats? The answer is an emphatic no.
Tony Jones, WBOB Contributing Writer
Ahead of their February 22nd show in Providence (Alchemy: 71 Richmond Street, 2nd Floor), the Gutter Demons' Johnny Töxik chatted with Tony Jones for WBOB. The interview is below, but check out the show, headlined by The Gutter Demons, and supported by Damnation and Vagora on Thursday, February 22nd (8PM show, $10 Cover) |
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