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"We're Right Where we Need to Be" - Hartford Hawks Athletic Director of Athletics and Recreation Alicia Queally Preaches Community in Exclusive Interview
Approaching one year as the University of Hartford’s Director of Athletics and Recreation, Alicia “AQ” Queally is working to create a new...
Ryan Hughes
Dec 15, 20245 min read
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Hartford Women's Soccer Repeats as ECAC Champions
The 1. Hartford Hawks defeated 2. Springfield College Pride 6-0 to secure their second consecutive ECAC Women’s Soccer title. While...
Ryan Hughes
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Tua Time to Retire?
Thursday night, Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa exited the game with a concussion after diving headfirst into Buffalo Bills...
Ryan Hughes
Sep 18, 20243 min read
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Predicting the 2024-25 Premier League
The Premier League is back. After a summer full of exciting international football, and the promotion of clubs Ipswich, Southampton, and...
Ryan Hughes
Aug 16, 20248 min read
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NFL Season Outlook: 4. Denver Broncos
Over the past two seasons, no team has been as much a disappointment as the Denver Broncos. After signing Russell Wilson to a massive...
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Aug 8, 20244 min read
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NFL Season Outlook: 3. Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinals have fallen apart since starting the 2021 NFL season 10-2. After finishing 2022 with a 4-13 record due to an injury to...
hughesyrj
Aug 8, 20243 min read
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NFL Season Outlook: #2. Carolina Panthers
This is the second part of a 32-part series in which I will be looking at every NFL Team, and how I believe they are going to perform...
hughesyrj
Aug 5, 20244 min read
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NFL SEASON OUTLOOK: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
The New England Patriots have entered a new era. With Bill Belichick gone and the Jerod Mayo officially underway in Foxboro, the new...
hughesyrj
Aug 4, 20244 min read
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The Life and Legacy of Baseball's NEW Batting Champion
For decades, if you looked at the historical leaderboards for batting average—both single season and career—in the MLB, the man in first...
Ryan Hughes
May 29, 20244 min read
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The White Sox are Bad... Really Bad
In 2023, a man named “Berto” called in to ESPN 1000 in Chicago and proceeded to lay the verbal smackdown on the Chicago White Sox as an...
Ryan Hughes
May 28, 20243 min read
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Looking Back on My Premier League Predictions
Back in August, I made a bet with a group of friends, where we would predict the final standings of the 2023-24 Premier League Season....
hughesyrj
May 20, 20247 min read
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Deserved: The Desertion of the Coyotes
After 28 years, the Arizona Coyotes were rendered “inactive” by the NHL. The hockey in the desert experience is over, for now. In the...
Ryan Hughes
May 9, 20246 min read
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OPINION: Stop Blaming Belichick
In May 2003, I was born ten miles north of Boston, Massachusetts. This will be my first concession that I might be incredibly biased in...
Ryan Hughes
Apr 17, 20245 min read
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Has March Madness Been Boring?
March Madness has been different this year. It’s been so boring that I spent two weeks preparing my third mock draft for the NFL instead...
Ryan Hughes
Apr 1, 20244 min read
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Ryan Hughes NFL Mock Draft 2.0
Two weeks before the Super Bowl, I released my first mock draft for the first round of April’s NFL Draft in Detroit. In the time since I...
Ryan Hughes
Mar 10, 202417 min read
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FOR BASEBALL IN MONTREAL
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred spoke on the record about relocation in the year 2017, saying that he thought the league...
hughesyrj
Feb 28, 20245 min read
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4 Years in the Making: A Preview of Super Bowl LVIII
In 2020, the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs battled for the right to become Super Bowl Champions. A young, less experienced...
hughesyrj
Feb 8, 20246 min read
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Ryan Hughes Mock Draft 1.0
The 2024 NFL Draft is one like no other. For the first time in a while, there is no clear “number one” player. 2023 had Bryce Young...
hughesyrj
Jan 30, 202418 min read
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THE RED SOX ARE NOT A SMALL MARKET TEAM…THEY’RE BEING PATIENT
After living through the Chaim Bloom era in Boston, which saw Mookie Betts get traded for nowhere near his value and Hunter Renfroe...
Ryan Hughes
Jan 18, 20243 min read
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Predicting 2024
Looking back on 2023, who could have predicted the stories that shook the sports world over the past 365 days. Whether it be that Damar...
Ryan Hughes
Jan 3, 20246 min read
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