You may not care about baseball but for different reasons the Yankees, Mets and Phillies have made this the most exciting September there’s ever been for fans in our area. While Sunday is the end of the regular season it would seem only fitting for Monday to find the Mets and or Phillies involved in special playoff games to get in to the post-season…possibly against one another.
The Lakewood BlueClaws and Greensboro Grasshoppers will share the South Atlantic League’s prestigious Club Merit Award which will be presented at the league’s annual awards luncheon next month in Asheville, North Carolina. The teams ranked atop the 16-team league in attendance for the third consecutive year and Lakewood has attracted the most fans in all 7 years of their existence.
All is not rosy at Rutgers University over the recent success of the football team and a longtime critic of the effort to make the Scarlet Knights a big-time program has to now deal with criticism from others. English professor William C. Dowling was interviewed for a New York Times article and responded to arguments that athletic scholarships provide opportunity for low-income, minority students. Dowling said that’s fine if the student is brilliant and just happens to be an athlete but then added…”but they give it to a functional illiterate who can’t read a cereal box and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills.” The school’s President and Athletic Director have both questioned those comments as being racist
and inappropriate.
Monmouth University football coach Kevin Callahan has certainly done a terrific job in building a program but he’s an even better person than he is a coach. Callahan does a weekly segment on our “AutoLenders High School Football Show” each Thursday. Last night we did the show live from Klee’s in Seaside Heights and despite an 0-3 start Callahan made the trip down from Monmouth County to appear in person. A quality guy who deserves success.
Our Shore Sports Network will broadcast our first-ever game from Barnegat High School tonight when the Bengals host Raritan. You can here the action on 1160AM or on the web at shoresportsnetwork.com
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