Monday, October 8, 2012
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Rams Edge Out Georgetown
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Rams Edge Out Georgetown: Fordham Tops Georgetown Hoyas on the Gridiron, 38-31 (Photos by Gary Quintal) By Howard Goldin BRONX, NEW YORK, October 8- In an excitin...
Rams Edge Out Georgetown
Fordham Tops Georgetown Hoyas on the Gridiron, 38-31
(Photos by Gary Quintal)
By Howard Goldin
BRONX, NEW YORK, October 8- In an exciting, high scoring contest, the Fordham Rams (4-2) defeated the Georgetown Hoyas (3-3), 38-31 on Saturday afternoon at Jack Coffey Field at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus in the Bronx. The victory at home was the third straight for Fordham, a mark the Rams last accomplished during the 2003 season. The contest was the 54th between the two football teams in a rivalry that dates back to 1889. Georgetown has been Fordham’s opponent more often than any other team.
Both the offensive and defensive units were effective contributors to the Fordham win. Senior Ryan Higgins, after only 11 starts at quarterback in his first three seasons at Fordham, is doing an outstanding job as the team’s field general. The Long Island native, Merrick, moved the ball 305 yards in the air by completing 29 of 38 passes. Brian Wetzel was the favorite target for Higgins. Wetzel caught eight passes for 123 yards. It was his third 100+ receiving games for Wetzel in 2012. None of the throws by Higgins were intercepted, yet two were thrown for touchdowns.
A 19-yard toss to Greg Wilson gave Fordham its first touchdown and a 10-7 advantage with 3:26 left in the first quarter. His second touchdown pass, 25 yards to Blake Wayne, came with only 1:25 to go in the third. Seconds later, his throw to Dan Light produced a two-point conversion to give Fordham a 31-24 lead.
Senior Carleton Koonce carried the ball 27 times for a net gain of 99 yards, bringing his total gained this year to 812 yards. Two of the carries on Saturday resulted in touchdowns, a 44-yard run in the third and a two-yard rush with nine minutes remaining in the game. That carry broke a 31-31 tie and resulted in the Fordham win. The transfer from Hofstra has gained more yards on the ground this year than he had on the ground and air combined in the previous two seasons.
Patrick Murray, another senior, has been a kicker for all occasions for Fordham. He does the punting, kickoffs, extra points and field goals. On Saturday he kicked three field goals from 30, 44 and 43 yards respectively. His eight punts averaged 47.8 and his kickoffs averaged 65 yards. His efforts repeatedly kept the Hoyas far from the Fordham goal line.
Fordham’s first year coach, Joe Moorhead, said of Murray, “He’s the best kicker in the country.’ Moorhead also remarked, “He’s a triple threat, punts, kickoffs, field goals.”
Despite the 38 points, the defense was indispensable to the win. Two passes were intercepted, three fumbles were recovered and a goal line stand late in the fourth quarter prevented the score from being knotted.
With 2:54 left in the contest, Georgetown had the ball on the Fordham two. Nick Campanella moved the ball one yard. Three runs could not penetrate the Fordham defense and the Rams took control of the ball with 1:43 on the clock.
Linebacker Michael Martin, who made a career-high of 18 tackles, commented on the key defensive plays, “We knew what we had to do. We came together as a defense. We couldn’t have asked for a better ending.”
The proud coach feels his club is, “Setting this program on a course for greatness.”
Next Saturday evening Fordham will be in Ohio to play the University of Cincinnati Bearcats.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Grand Opening
BRONX, NEW YORK, October 5- Country Club Wine & Liquor, a family owned store specializing in fine wines & liquors and customer service, officially opened its doors this week. Located in the heart of the East Tremont shopping strip at 3464 East Tremont Avenue, entrepreneur Inez Gomez dreams of owning her own business has been become a reality.
Country Club Wine & Liquor will carry wines, spirits, and accessories from countries all over the world. The store highlights include tasting bars, wine education classrooms, events and in-store experts.
CEO Inez Gomez states "With outstanding service, product selection and pricing, we're confident that Country Club Wine & Liquor will become a favorite destination for our Bronx consumers."
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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Bring on the Rings?
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Bring on the Rings?: At the end the Yankees seem to have it all together as they await the next step By Rich Mancuso BRONX, NEW YORK, October 5- The Texas Ran...
Bring on the Rings?
At the end the Yankees seem to have it all together as they await the next step
By Rich Mancuso
BRONX, NEW YORK, October 5- The Texas Rangers or the Baltimore Orioles are awaiting the New York Yankees Sunday night as the new wild card format this season has the lower seed teams hosting the higher seed in the divisional series. But, the Yankees don’t care where they go, or who they play.
Momentum has become a major player the last month or weeks of the baseball season. The Yankees have that right now, so similar to what the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals had in 2010, and last year. Their late season surges continued right to a World Series championship.
And, as every baseball or sports fan knows, a New York Yankees season is not complete, or a success, unless they bring a World Series trophy back to the Bronx. They finished with the best record in the American League, decided when they clinched their second straight division title Wednesday night with a sweep over the Boston Red Sox.
Home field advantage for the first two rounds of the post season goes to the Yankees with a 95-67 finish, second best in baseball to the Washington Nationals. Though sweeping the lowly Boston Red Sox to finish off, and scoring 14-runs in their final game, don’t make that a barometer that they will dominate from here on in.
This was the Red Sox. Not the Rangers, Athletics, Tigers, or the Orioles where pitching, with perhaps the exception of the Rangers collapse, won them games this time of year. The Yankees inconsistency of their pitching staff could be their obstacle as to getting a 28th championship.
“Now the real season starts,” commented Derek Jeter, the Yankees captain who knows something about the meaning of October baseball with five World Series rings.
So, with a September that was one to remember, the Yankees had to fight to the end with Baltimore. The 27-time world champions are confident. Yes, momentum is on their side as the pitching and hitting have come together, as well as a healthy compliment of players off the disabled list.
The season of adversity, one key pitcher or starting player hindered by injuries hurt the Yankees as they struggled and surrendered a 10-game AL east divisional lead to the Orioles.
“This year we had to fight, scratch and claw,” said Nick Swisher who had his struggles and finished with a strong September.
The Yankees at one time or another this season, and Girardi utilized what he could from the roster, saw different players at third, first, in the outfield, at DH, and on the mound.
The losses of pitchers CC Sabathia, Andy Pettitte, Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez, Brett Gardner, and other role players, for a short or extended period of time had an impact but they overcame the adversity.
That also included losing all-time saves leader Mariano Rivera, with a freak season ending injury in the outfield shagging fly balls prior to a game at Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City. Rafael Sorinao stepped in the closer role, and overall with 42 saves but had the tendency to throw the home run ball in the late going.
Gardner is back and could be on the post season roster, but getting on base and speed came when the Yankees acquired the able Ichiro Suzuki in the second half. Robinson Cano struggled, and the final three weeks the all-star second baseman had the highest hitting percentage in baseball.
The last seven years, New York has won the World Series once, so the obvious dynasty in baseball is a thing of the past with parity an obvious part of the game. However, as was the case with the Giants and Cardinals, pitching wins games this time of year.
“To have the best record and not know where you’re going is strange,” says Yankees manager Joe Girardi. They probably would prefer the Orioles. They split the 18-games between them and scored more runs. The Rangers, though struggling, know how to handle this time of year.
And when it comes to the Yankees and Rangers in October, Girardi is aware that Texas has come up short the last two years in failing to win the World Series, but the Yankees have never done well at the ballpark in Arlington in October baseball games.
The tentative starting rotation in the best- of- five opening round will be Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Pettitte, and Phil Hughes. It looks good, though Hughes has been ineffective in his last three starts and gives up the home run ball. Hughes getting the ball in a game three or four could be detrimental.
“The fact we struggled, we overcame the adversity, I am proud we are at this point,” says Girardi. Driving in the timely run has been the inconsistency and striking out to much, and Curtis Granderson had a team high in strike outs when he was not hitting the home run ball.
Just about every position player is liable to hit the ball out of the park. The Yankees finished 2012 with a club record in round trippers. But we saw something the past few weeks that started to develop.
The Yankees played small ball with the bunt, steal, and that produced some run production that helped them win some close games on the road. They finished four games over .500 away from the Bronx.
The team works out at Yankee Stadium early Friday evening and will watch the wild card game between the Orioles and Rangers. From the Bronx they will have the bags packed and ready to begin the next journey.
The new season begin Sunday evening. The quest with momentum is to bring championship number 28 to the Bronx in a few weeks.
E-Mail Rich Mancuso: Ring786@aol.com/ Facebook.com/Keep it in the Ring
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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Life Isn't Always Fair According to Mayor Bloomber...
Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Life Isn't Always Fair According to Mayor Bloomber...: 100 PERCENT By Robert Press BRONX, NEW YORK, October 5- The specialized high school admission process based on only one test given to all ...
Life Isn't Always Fair According to Mayor Bloomberg
100 PERCENT
By Robert Press
BRONX, NEW YORK, October 5- The specialized high school admission process based on only one test given to all students has come under fire from advocacy groups who have filed a federal complaint. They claim the admission process is racially biased since minority student parents do not have the resources that non minority student parents have, thus giving those non minority students an advantage in taking the one test that is used to determine who is admitted to the specialized high schools.
In answer to the complaint Mayor Bloomberg said “admission to those schools is based strictly on merit, and it is one of the Bright Lights in our school system.” “The students with the highest scores are admitted without prejudice to ethnicity.” Bloomberg later told one reporter “Life Isn't Always Fair.” Go to my blog at www.100percentbronx.blogspot.com to read Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.'s reaction and comment to what Mayor Bloomberg said.
At the last Community Board #7 meeting there was a second attempt to oust District Manager Fernando Tirado. As was the case in the first vote there were not enough votes to accomplish this task. We spoke to Mr. Tirado who will have the last laugh as he has submitted his notice to Community Board #7 that he has found a better job that he will enjoy without the tension of the politics on the Community Board.
It was Mr. Greg Faulkner who ascended to the position of Chairman of CB 7 when the previous long-term chair (and still CB 7 member) was asked by then Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion to withdraw from the election for chair during unsubstantiated rumors of wrong doing. Long time CB 7 District Manager Rita Kessler was then replaced with CB 7 Board Member Fernando Tirado. With the election of Fernando Cabrera to the City Council Faulkner became his chief of staff. Several sources have said current CB 7 chair Paul Foster in his attempts to oust Tirado may be taking his marching orders from Faulkner, and we will have to see who replaces Tirado as District Manager. One possibility we are told could be former CB7 Housing Chair, and Executive Director of the Bronx Democratic County Committee organization Ms. Ischia Bravo. Bravo complained about Tirado while she was briefly on CB 7 before her quick departure from the board.
In the “Lets Have Another Laugh” department - City Councilman Charles Barron is now exploring a possible run for Public Advocate when current PA Bill de Blasio announces his run for mayor next year. Barron fresh off a defeat in a Brooklyn congressional primary will be term limited out of the council in 2013, and word is that his wife Inez Barron will run for his council seat. This will allow Charles Barron after he looses his bid for public advocate to run for his wife's vacant seat should she be elected to his council seat.
The 2nd annual Bronx Little League championship game was played at Yankee Stadium. The Little League Raiders beat the Little League Bronx Bombers 6 – 1, and you can go to my blog to see pictures of the players as they ventured on to the same field and sat in same dugout as their favorite New York Yankee players.
The 18th Annual TOUR DE BRONX will take place on Sunday October 14th, and will cover all 61 neighborhoods in the Bronx. There will be a 25 mile and a 40 mile bike route choice for the largest Free Cycling event in New York State. Bronx Borough President was on hand at Montifiore Hospital (one of the sponsors of the bike tour) this past Monday to unveil the route.
I would love to cover the Tour De Bronx, but I will be attending COMIC-CON 2012 at the Javits Center that runs from Thursday October 11th through Sunday October 14th . You can check my blog at www.100percentbronx.blogspot.com for daily updates on who and what will be appearing at COMIC-CON 2012 at the Javits Center.
If you have any comments about this column or would like to have an event listed or covered in this column or on my blog you can e-mail us at 100percentbronxnews@gmail.com or call 718-644-4199 Mr. Robert Press.
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