The Rio Olympics are history, its torch extinguished Sunday night amid an explosion of color and sound befitting the conclusion of this quadrennial…
Mike Szostak
Mike Szostak covered sports for The Providence Journal for 36 years until retiring in 2013. His career highlights included five Winter Olympics from Lake Placid to Nagano and 17 seasons covering the Boston Celtics. His beats also included tennis, skiing and college sports, especially Brown and URI football.
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Mount St. Charles Coach Bill Belisle Heading To Hockey Hall Of Fame
What is the cost of admission to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in Eveleth, Minn.? For you and me, $8. For Mount St. Charles Academy coach Bill Belisle,…
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Richard C. “Dick” Lee, 1930-2016
If you played high-school baseball in Rhode Island from the 1950s to the early 2000s, Dick Lee probably umpired one of your games. If you ran cross…
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Muhammad Ali: The One, The Only, The Greatest
Never say never, they teach you in the journalism business. But there are exceptions to every rule, right? So, we will never see the likes of Muhammad…
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Stories That Won’t Go Away
Some stories just refuse to go away. In Rhode Island we have corruption in the State House and Providence City Hall. In Sports World we have deflategate…
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Brown Lacrosse Awaits Navy For NCAA Quarterfinals
Brown is playing championship-caliber lacrosse again, just in time to challenge Navy for a berth in the NCAA Final Four Memorial Day Weekend in…
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Costly Deflategate Victory Proves Only That Commissioner Roger Goodell Is The Boss
Deflategate is over. The National Football League and Commissioner Roger Goodell won. The New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady lost. Fifteen…
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Brown Rallies For 14-12 Triumph Over No. 1, Undefeated Yale
They’ll be talking about Brown’s 14-12 lacrosse victory over undefeated Yale Saturday for a long time. They’ll mention how Yale, ranked first and second…
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No. 1/2 Yale At No. 4/5 Brown Could Be A Lacrosse Classic
On the college sports calendar in New England, spring feels like 3 o’clock in the morning, when all is quiet, when nothing much happens. Spring is the…
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Forget Opening Day; How About Those Closing Nights?
Forget about Opening Day of the baseball season this week. How about Closing Nights of the college basketball season? If you did not stay up to watch…