Around Albany

For the 3rd time in 4 years the baseball player of the year in the MAAC hails from Siena University.

Mike Fish, a senior earned the honor at an awards ceremony Wednesday night. Fish hails from Delmar, New York

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The Yankees enter Camden Yards posting a 12-6 record against American League East teams.  The Orioles have lost five straight and are looking to bounce back at home.  These clubs play three in Baltimore.  Here is a series preview:

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Goaltending-depth-star scoring-special teams.  Those are the four keys to a Stanley Cup run.  The Rangers certainly have the first one, even if Henrik Lundqvist had a bad Game 2 against the Bruins.  Other than the goalie though, the Blueshirts are in trouble.

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If you are wondering what horses are going where for this Saturday's Preakness race, Derby winner Orb is at post #1 which is against the rail.  The rest is below with jockeys and odds.

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ESPN.com national horse racing expert Paul Moran joined Mike Lindsley on 104.5 The Team ESPN Radio to talk Preakness, Orb and select horse racing topics.  Listen in here:

The Yanks and Jays have at it for three in the Bronx.  New York just lost two of three to Seattle and Toronto has won four straight against the Red Sox and Giants respectively.  Here is a series preview.

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If you're going to be at our first ever Food Truck Festival happening this Saturday (5/4) in Troy, NY, we want you to Tweet, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare, flickr, and more with us! Here's a complete guide for the fest including our hashtag for the day and the Twitter handles for a bunch of the trucks. We'll even have a fancy-dandy guide to save to your phone, or print out. We'll also have paper copies at the festival too, but you can save a tree and download it here. 

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This weekend at Riverfront Park in Troy, a craze that been sweeping the nation over the last several years takes its rightful place under the spotlight. The Food Truck Festival of NY will invade the Capital Region from 12 noon until 7 p.m. on Saturday, and we here at 104.5 "The Team" are ready to rock The Collar City.

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Summer is around the corner. Its time to get reacquainted with “outdoors,” colloquially defined as that pesky, unpredictable region that you're forced to navigate between your house and your car. Outdoors is us

It is a simple statement and I think a true statement. In the NBA and NHL if you don't make the playoffs you had a disappointing season. You can carry that over to the AHL as well since 16 teams make the post season just like the other 2 leagues mentioned

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Mathematically eliminated from the playoffs last weekend the Albany Devils had to wonder what kind of effort they would get from all their players Friday night at the Times Union Center. That question was answered with a solid 3-2 win over the Connecticut Whale

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Officials in Massachusetts gave a press conference to update the media on the status of the Tsarnaev brothers and the Boston bombings. Gov Patrick and Boston Mayor Menino started the press conference:

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