March has finally arrived and that means the regular season has come to an end in the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season and conference tournaments are set to get underway. For the final time this year, the Good Five Cent Cigar sports staff got together to rank all the teams in the Atlantic 10 Conference….
The Atlantic 10: a conference filled to the brim with buzzer beater finishes, high intensity play and paradoxical upsets. Every week, The Good Five Cent Cigar sports staff will vote on these teams to generate a power ranking of the conference’s basketball programs. Here are the men’s basketball rankings as of March 3: 15th Place:…
The University of Rhode Island’s women’s track and field team closed their season with the New England and Eastern College Athletic Championships this past weekend. The Rams sent 15 athletes to Boston to compete, with some of the athletes beating personal records. On the first day of the New England Championship, the team placed third…
Men’s Track & Field Championship Recap Following their fourth straight Atlantic 10 title, for the first time in program history, the University of Rhode Island men’s track and field has won all three championships in a single indoor season. URI won their 30th A-10 title back on Feb. 24 and just a week later, the…
The University of Rhode Island women’s tennis team extended their winning streak to six with a pair of wins on the weekend over Stony Brook University and Hofstra University. Rhody improved to 7-2 on the season at the International Tennis Hall of Fame after Saturday’s 5-2 win over Stony Brook and Sunday’s 6-1 win over…
Through dramatics and several snowstorms, the University of Rhode Island baseball team took one of three games against Washington State University as their steep non-conference road slate trudged on through the late winter months. After dropping the first two games of the series, the Rams found themselves tied going into the ninth inning at 3-3…
In their regular season finale, the University of Rhode Island women’s basketball team clipped the wings of the University of Dayton in a thorough 77-42 victory. The Rams led the Flyers in the contest through all four quarters, a trend that branched off from the start of the game when Rhode Island started on a…
The late season woes continued for the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team as their losing streak was extended to seven games with losses to Saint Louis University and George Mason University this week. Rhode Island welcomed Saint Louis into the Ryan Center on Saturday afternoon, looking for their first win since Feb. 6….
In a nearly sold-out two-weekend run, the University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Department’s “Macbeth” came to the stage from Feb. 22-25, and Feb. 29-March 3. Working diligently over the past few months, both the actors and members of the stage crew created a show that met and overcame every expectation that guest director and…
MGMT released their fifth studio album, “Loss of Life,” in late February, taking their sound in a few distinct, new directions. A Middledown, Connecticut based indie duo, MGMT has been making indie and psychedelic rock with electronic elements since the early 2000s. They earned radio airplay almost immediately from their first singles, “Time to Pretend,”…