Archer aims to bring gold back to New England

Posted by NECN - Sports August 8, 2008 (2 weeks ago) at 5:41 pm

(Mark Sudol, NECN) - There are a fair number of New England athletes competing in the Beijing games this month. One of which from Connecticut already has quite a resume.

Richard Johnson knows a thing or two about archery----after all his father Butch is one of only three Americans competing in a fifth olympics this summer.

Richard says anyone can shoot an arrow, but it's what you do with it that determines how good you are..

"Archery is a lot of mental and physical--- he's one of the better ones out there."

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Packers president: ‘Bittersweet time’ as Favre heads to Jets

Posted by NECN - Sports August 7, 2008 (2 weeks ago) at 1:45 pm

(NECN: Green Bay, Wis.) - Brett Favre's journey from retirement and back has ended in New York. The Green Bay Packers traded their three-time MVP and Super Bowl-winning quarterback to the Jets.

"This is really a bittersweet time for the organization," Packers president Mark Murphy said at a news conference Thursday.

"I think we're all sad to see Brett Favre's career as a Packer end."

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Bay: new to Fenway, but not to Red Sox Nation

Posted by NECN - Sports August 1, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 4:36 pm

(NECN) - Jason Bay may be new to the Boston Red Sox, but he's no stranger to the Sox fan base. He grew up in it.

"I had a Red Sox onesie when I was growing up," the Britich Columbia native told reporters, noting that his father was a diehard Sox fan.

In his bedroom as a kid? Posters of Jim Rice and Carl Yastrzemski.

And Bay remembers his only trip to Fenway as a member of the Red Sox, for the atmosphere - and the rendition of 'Sweet Caroline'. He noted the atmosphere between Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium, where the Pirates visited on the trip, was totally different.

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Theo, Tito say Bay is a great fit

Posted by NECN - Sports August 1, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 4:22 pm

(NECN) - Red Sox Manager Terry Francona and GM Theo Epstein held a press conference to discuss the recent block buster trade that sent Manny Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers. It also sent Sox outfielder Brandon Moss and pitcher Craig Hansen to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

In the three team-deal, the Red Sox acquired outfielder Jason Bay from the Pirates. Bay will be introduced Friday night against the Oakland A's. Bay will be hitting in the number 5 spot, behind Mike Lowell.

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Bay: ‘I’m not going to be Manny’

Posted by NECN - Sports August 1, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 4:12 pm

(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - "Fire away."

With those two words, Jason Bay met the Boston media for the first time in a Fenway Park news conference as a member of the Boston Red Sox. Bay says he arrived in Boston after a "sleepless" night, finding out only after the trade deadline passed at 4 p.m. that he had actually been shipped to Boston.

"I didn't know anything more than what everyone was writing," Bay told reporters about how he followed a day that had him reportedly shipped to Tampa at mid-afternoon, before the Boston trade was finalized.

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Francona: Team already looking ahead after trade

Posted by NECN - Sports August 1, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 4:09 pm

(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - Prior to introducing jason bay as the newest member of the Boston Red Sox, Theo Epstein and Terry Francona met the media, and for the first time, Frnacona acknowledged that his team had lost its focus before the trade of Manny Ramirez. But he said the team was already looking ahead in a Friday afternoon team meeting.

"We discussed how we're going to go forward," Francona said of the meeting. "I thought it was an exciting time to stand in fromt of your players and feel like that."

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Epstein: Now we feel like a team

Posted by NECN - Sports August 1, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 4:07 pm

(NECN) - Red Sox Manager Terry Francona and GM Theo Epstein held a press conference to discuss the recent block buster trade that sent Manny Ramirez to the Los Angeles Dodgers. It also sent Sox outfielder Brandon Moss and pitcher Craig Hansen to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

In the three team-deal, the Red Sox acquired outfielder Jason Bay from the Pirates. Bay will be introduced Friday night against the Oakland A's. Bay will be hitting in the number 5 spot, behind Mike Lowell.

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Army changes its mind, Campbell can’t play in NFL

Posted by NECN - Sports July 24, 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 9:47 am

(NECN/ABC) - Caleb Campbell will not get a chance to play for the Detroit Lions because of a change in military policy.

Campbell was a seventh-round draft pick for the Lions in April.

At the time, Army policy would have allowed the West Point graduate to serve as a recruiter if he made the team.

Now the Army is saying that Campbell must serve in active duty until 2010, when he would be eligible to ask for leave to play football.

Any extensive time away from the game would hurt Campbell's chances of playing in the NFL.

Tiger Woods on the practice green

Posted by NECN - Sports June 11, 2008 at 11:27 am

(NECN: San Diego) - Tiger Woods is ready. The two-time U.S. Open champion says he feels great as he gets ready for the Open championship that starts Thursday.

The world's top-ranked player has been out of action since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee after the Masters in April.

Phil Mickelson, who grew up in San Diego and played high school matches at Torrey Pines where the U.S. Open will be held, carries a bit of baggage into this week's national championship. Although Mickelson has won 34 times on the PGA Tour, he is 0-17 at the U.S. Open.

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Calhoun, facing more skin cancer, will keep coaching

Posted by NECN - Sports May 30, 2008 at 2:17 pm

STORRS, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun says he is
being treated for his second bout of skin cancer in a year and says
he wants to keep coaching.

The 66-year-old Hall of Fame coach says a lump removed from his
neck on May 6 was malignant. His doctors told him that lymph nodes
and other surrounding tissue removed at the same time were free of
cancer. He is scheduled to undergo six weeks of radiation
treatments next month at the UConn Health Center. His doctors say
there should be no long-term effects from the radiation and expect

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