“Don’t rush to the exits … there’s confetti.” That’s what I texted my Dad around 9 p.m. on February 23, 2018. The 2017-18 University of Rhode Island Men’s Basketball season was the crown jewel of my four years as an undergraduate student at the University of Rhode Island. It was my junior year and I…
I can tell you two things about my freshman year of college. I wanted to transfer from the University of Rhode Island and Ben Bentil changed the course of my college experience. My weeks were all the same freshmen year. They started on Sunday nights watching Sunday Night Football in my dressing-room-sized Weldin Hall dorm…
Photo by Autumn Walter | The Rams won against William and Mary, facing off during a nor’easter. Jim Fleming had it all planned. Even on a day where the forecast called for a nor’easter and history might suggest Rhode Island football was destined to lose their third straight game. But, Rhode Island’s head coach Jim…
Photo courtesy of Stone Freeman It’s very cliché and quite honestly said too much. But, you just don’t know what happens behind closed doors. Unless you open the door. Take this as me opening my door to you. It was January 2018 and felt a feeling I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy. Unfortunately, this…
Photo courtesy of GoRhody A recap of a successful week in Rhode Island athletics Women’s Rowing named A-10 Boat of the Week The University of Rhode Island women’s rowing team had one of the most successful weeks of the season this week winning the 52nd annual Kerr Cup Regatta. The Varsity 8 boat was…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Last Thursday afternoon the team held their 10th annual drive in hopes of getting 300 new members into the registry. Over the past 10 years the University of Rhode Island football program has teamed up with “Be The Match’ to help recruit potential donors for the bone marrow registry. Rhode Island…
The other day it hit me. I sat in my friend’s living room on Sunday afternoon completely emerged in game one of the first round of the NBA playoffs between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks. The atmosphere, the competition, the speed of the game and the chase to win the NBA Finals had…
Photo courtesy of GoRhody Consistency and team mentality are the pieces to success that the University of Rhode Island men’s track and field and cross country programs have been built on since 1982. Both of these pieces have come synonymous with head coach John Copeland. In his 36 years at the helm of the University’s…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Over the past six years, URI has had an emotional ride with Dan Hurley as head coach. We all knew it was coming. The tough reality that the University of Rhode Island is not a destination job on the college basketball map resulted in former Rams head coach Dan Hurley…
Photo courtesy of the office of Lt. Governor Dan McKee. Throughout the course of the memorable 2017-18 season for the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team, URI had some support coming from the State House in Providence. Rhode Island’s Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee was cheering on his home state’s university throughout the course of…