Move over Syracuse, there is a sports dome coming to the Capital Region and it's not going to be used for a college team. It's being built for a local high school.
It was a typical mid-January Friday night in Capital Region high school basketball. Single digit windchills were dropping to negative numbers, road teams kept the buses running. However, that didn't deter some road warriors from dropping the heat on this Friday night in Section 2 hoops. 38 match-ups on the schedule in boys basketball and another 29 on the girls basketball slate.
The MLB updated their website to reflect the newly established lockout, and New York Yankees' Jameson Taillon found the perfect way to poke fun at the league.
Want to hear something not very surprising? Jimmer Fredette dropped 50 points this past weekend for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese basketball Association. Granted, the Sharks lost the game to Sichuan, but do we care? Not really. Jimmer still leads the CBA in scoring with nearly 37 points per game, and putting a 50-burger up is only going to foster his already god-like status in China...
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Now that we know Glens Falls native Jimmer Fredette has moved on from his NBA aspirations for now, let's take a look at his next stop: The Shanghai Sharks.
Who are the Sharks? The Shanghai Sharks are a team that has been playing in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) since 1996, just one year after the league had formed...
Dave Byrd was a star at CBA before he went on to star at Syracuse. He was a two-year starter for the Orange - and after that he went onto a career in the NFL and the CFL. He spent time with the Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills in addition to the British Columbia Lions...
As Albany native Dion Lewis fights to make the Patriots roster in 2015, we do get some sad Capital Region news out of New England...
Vellano, a CBA grad, spent two seasons in New England after being signed as a rookie free agent out of Maryland...
Last week's Section II Super Bowls provided five great matchups and crowned five new champions. Perhaps no greater game was played than the Class AA final between Shen and CBA at UAlbany's Bob Ford Field.
I was at that game and saw the Plainsmen beat the Brothers, 25-20...
It's Super Bowl time in Section II and that means we have a SUPER edition of our High School Football Social Media Fan Battle! This time it's CBA vs. Shen in Class AA!
How it works: Two times a day (8:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.), we will tweet out the game of the week on twitter @1045theteam...