The Heart of a Champion by Sam Perkins HARTFORD, Conn. – It was fitting that Nelly’s new track Heart of a Champion was blaring over the sound system as Warren McClendon threw down what has become a ritual pre-game dunk-a-thon in warm-ups, as no song better represented the Hawks, who […]
Author: Sam Perkins
No More Doubters For UMBC
UMBC Is For Real by Sam Perkins ALBANY, N.Y. – All season long the sentiment has leaked out from around the America East – from Prognosticators, fans, athletic departments. At times it has come in whispers, at times a dull roar, at times in droves. The notion: the UMBC Retrievers, […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Sam Perkins Heading down the last leg of what has been one heck of a conference season (with the conference standings seeming to shuffle significantly on a weekly basis), I thought now would be a good time to give my take on the All-Conference awards. One […]
Albany Gets Much-Needed Win
Great Danes Get Big Win When They Need it Most, Show Growth by Sam Perkins BURLINGTON, Vt. – Marqus Blakely had another monster game on the stat sheet, scoring 18 points while pulling down 16 rebounds, but the Albany great Danes learned how to take him out of the equation, […]
Hartford Holds Off Maine
High-Flying Hawks Continue Their Roll by Sam Perkins HARTFORD, Conn. – The Hartford men’s basketball team certainly lived up to their name Wednesday night, as the Hawks soared above the rim for almost a half-dozen crowd-pleasing dunks. However, the long range heroics of Morgan Sabia were involved in the game […]
Vermont Rides Blakely To Road Win
Just call them the Comeback Catamounts by Sam Perkins HARTFORD, Conn. – With three and a half minutes remaining in, Hartford was once again surging against Vermont. The feisty Hawks, playing the role of undaunted underdogs to perfection, had wrestled the lead away from the heavily-favored and high-powered Catamounts for […]
America East Notebook
America East Notebook by Sam Perkins With almost half of the conference season in the books, one thing has become evident: the conference is still wide open, and none of the prognosticators (or even the coaches, judging by the preseason coaches poll) seem to have been too accurate. The non-conference […]
Hartford Needs McLendon
Hawks Hang on Against Seawolves by Sam Perkins HARTFORD, Conn. – The Hartford Hawks need Warren McLendon. If that wasn’t obvious before the Hawks’ game Thursday night, it certainly was afterwards. In what was truly a tale of two halves (or, perhaps more accurately, the tale of one and a […]
UMBC Wins Ugly
Retrievers Show They Can Win Ugly by Sam Perkins BOSTON – How much could one really take away from a game when the league’s best team takes on one of the league’s worst? When the best team plays well below its potential, and their opponent is playing without its best […]
Albany’s Win A Potential Boost
This time, it’s the size of the Dog in the Fight by Sam Perkins BOSTON – Before the start of the season, most America East followers circled Wednesday night’s match up between the Albany Great Danes and the Boston University Terriers as an early battle for conference supremacy, and a […]
