Ellie Sennhenn: Another staff pick, another absolutely gut-wrenching, crying-in-the-car and intensely lyrical recommendation of mine. I have had Jake Minch’s album “George” on blast all month long. The song “For Leaving” has become a twisted sort of anthem for me, and it unfolds like a dusty photo album laid out in a late-afternoon sun: nostalgic,…
Spoiler Warning: “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Three summers later of heartbreak and endless debate, “The Summer I Turned Pretty” final season gave fans the closure we were waiting for. And if you’ve been on Team Conrad from the start, the finale feels like a reward. The show has played with the idea that Jeremiah…
Football FINAL (9/20): University of Rhode Island 28-7 Long Island University After being held without a touchdown in their prior matchup against the College of the Holy Cross, the Rams put up four of them against LIU on Saturday, with all facets of the team contributing in major ways in a Homecoming victory. In the…
All 14 members of the Coastal Athletic Association played this past week, shifting some schools in our second week of power rankings. Ahead of the busiest in-conference week of the season so far, The Good Five Cent Cigar Sports Staff came up with its cumulative ranking. Here is how the CAA is shaping up following…
The clock had 2:23 remaining; the score read 7-6. In a game where the University of Rhode Island football team had twice relied on fifth-year kicker Garth White to salvage points from drives that stalled in the red zone, they needed him to deliver one more time from a little further out. With field goals…
Led by dominance from second-year Luke Stennett at the top, the University of Rhode Island men’s golf team won its second consecutive tournament to begin the season at the Ryan T. Lee Memorial Collegiate this week. The Rams were the only group in the 15-team field to finish under par in Wethersfield, Connecticut, shooting four…
The University of Rhode Island men’s cross country team faced off in its second meet of the season over the weekend, finishing in second place with 63 points in the 8,200-meter Central Connecticut State University Ted Owens Invitational. Along with Rhode Island, there were five other teams in the meet. Rhody was led by second-year…
The University of Rhode Island women’s cross country team traveled to take part in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Invitational over the weekend, in which there were nine Rams who placed in the top 100 of the six-kilometer race. On Saturday morning, second-year Alison Pankowicz finished the six-kilometer course in 22:42.75 to place 41st, and…
The University of Rhode Island women’s soccer team translated nonconference success into Atlantic 10 Conference action on Saturday, picking up a 1-0 shutout victory over Saint Joseph’s University. Opening conference play with a win for the second season in a row, the Rams took their sixth shutout of the year and seventh victory overall. “We’ve…
The University of Rhode Island men’s soccer team extended its winless streak to four this week, falling to Loyola University Chicago in a 2-1 score on Saturday before being taken down by the College of the Holy Cross on Tuesday, 3-2. Rhody hosted the Ramblers on Saturday afternoon, facing off against their second Atlantic 10…