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…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Baseball season starts up again with win on Tuesday and a scheduled five games next week. After 18 games on the road, the University of Rhode Island’s baseball team recorded a 5-2 win over Sacred Heart in its home opener on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s nice to play a home game,” Coach…
|CIGAR| Autumn Walter, Stone Freeman, Margeaux Gagnon, Jack O’Marra and Ben Kinch from the Good Five Cent Cigar and the 5 Cent Cigar Newscast spent their spring break covering the breaking news from the A-10 and NCAA’s. Spring break has come and gone at the University of Rhode Island. While students escaped the frozen tundra…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Seniors on the men’s basketball team being honored on their senior night. Nothing competes with the joy and sorrow that comes with cheering on your high school and collegiate sports teams. It’s a special emotional attachment you create with the players throughout the years. You jump up for joy when your…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| After six years at the helm of URI’s men’s basketball team, Dan Hurley will officially sign a contract with the University of Connecticut. After six seasons as the head coach of the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team, Dan Hurley is departing for the head coaching vacancy at the University…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Pittsburgh – A regular season Atlantic 10 Championship. A program long seven-straight weeks in the AP Top 25. The highest ranking in school history in the AP Poll at No. 16. All on the way to the highest seed in an NCAA tournament at No. 7. What a run it…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| URI set to take on Duke in the Round of 32 Pittsburgh, PA– The Rhode Island Rams have advanced to their second straight round of 32 appearance in the NCAA tournament. This season they have to face men’s basketball powerhouse, Duke University. This year’s second round draw brings in a…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| As a tip of the cap to one of the greatest to do this, I try something new this evening. Bill Reynolds has been a columnist for the Providence Journal for 30 plus years and in each Sunday Journal he pens, “For What It’s Worth,” a column with small snippets…
Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Rhode Island enters NCAA Tournament with chip on their shoulder The month February and early March for Rhode Island men’s basketball was full of highs and lows. The Rams clinched their first outright Atlantic 10 regular season title in program history, cutting down the nets and celebrating an impressive feat….