The University of Rhode Island’s cheerleading team does much more than shake their pom-poms. The team, which consists of 36 athletes, practices three times each week on average, performs at every home football and men’s and women’s basketball game and represents the University at many events. They do all of this while preparing for the…
The 2023 College Football season is over, and the Coastal Athletic Conference has seen its fair share of nail-biters, blowouts and even upsets. The top teams are now competing in the playoffs and the bottom organizations are reorganizing for 2024. The Good Five Cent Cigar sports staff judged all 15 CAA teams every week and…
Coming from an athletic family, volleyball has always played a significant role in Gabrielle Shilling’s life. At Notre Dame Preparatory School, in Pontiac, Michigan, Shilling was a two-year captain of her volleyball team, leading them to three district championships. Shilling achieved much success during her four years, making First Team All-State in 2017 and being…
Men’s Basketball: FINAL (11/26): URI 76 – 72 Yale The Rams defeated Ivy League foe Yale University at the Ryan Center on Sunday. URI trailed by as much as 18 points before sparking a second half comeback to secure the win. The Rams leave the week with a 5-2 record before the battle for the…
Early in the 2023-24 season for the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team, the wave of offseason transfers has yielded a product of high consistency and veteran leadership, including third-year Bradley University transfer Zek Montgomery. A member of the Braves for two seasons, Montgomery took off his Bradley uniform for the last time after…
On Nov. 18, the University of Rhode Island’s club men’s ice hockey team beat Northern Illinois University in Chicago, 2-0. This win was number 708 for head coach Joe Augustine, and marked the breaking of the previous all-time win record set by Frank Keaney, a man whose name is synonymous with URI athletics. Keaney’s record…
The bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip were not too much for the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team to handle, as the Rams swept a pair of games against Youngstown State and University of Portland at the Las Vegas Holiday Classic last weekend. The first contest against Youngstown State on Friday was…
Down by 18 points against the defending Ivy League Champions, a second-half comeback saw the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team remain unbeaten at the Ryan Center in a 76-72 win over the Yale Bulldogs on Sunday. The result saw the Rams come out of November with a 5-2 record to start the year,…
On Nov. 17, the University of Rhode Island Musician’s Guild held their fourth annual Rock & Swap concert in the Ram’s Den. This unique battle of the bands has individual musicians sign up, rather than bands. Two weeks before the show, bands are assigned randomly, giving them a limited amount of time to learn and…
I don’t really play many ‘games.’ At least in the sense of video games, my Xbox’s primary use as of late is to stream the seventh and final season of “The West Wing.” However, through the introduction from friends I’ve recently started playing a game called Connections, which is part of the games section of…