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TROY, NY − With the Mayor’s Cup officially in the past, exciting college hockey is ahead of us for the remainder of the 2020 winter season.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY − In the midst of a six game win streak and now an 11-4 season, the Saratoga Springs Ice Hockey team is getting fresh legs in the form of their captain, Mack Ogden, returning to the lineup.
CLIFTON PARK, NY − When a team remains undefeated for a long stretch of time, the natural reaction is that they are going to be a postseason favorite.
EAST GREENBUSH, NY − The Shen Girls' momentum has been building and building over the last week, now with a win over Columbia, the Plainsmen haven't put themselves on cruise control.
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TROY, NY − Halfway through the second period of Friday night's matchup between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell, RPI Head Coach Dave Smith decided to pull starting goalie Linden Marshall despite Marshall showing any sign of wear.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There is no better way to kick off a new year than with a quick, crisp, redemption run at the Saratoga Arts First Night 5k as both of last year’s second-place finishers rang in 2020 as champions Tuesday night on the Skidmore Campus.
TROY, NY − The achievement of being an athlete at the NCAA Div. I level is quite the victory, regardless of the sport the athlete has done it at.
AVERILL PARK, NY − Averill Park, like many high school basketball teams in the area, have had a weird start to their 2019-20 season, but now 1-4, the Warriors are sticking to their “defense first” ideals to power through early season woes.
So many American stallions have been sold overseas in recent decades that at this point the practice rarely rates more than a paragraph or two in the racing press. However, when recent Kentucky Derby winners California Chrome and Animal Kingdom – earners of a combined $23 million, with victo…
TROY, NY − It may have not been as cold as last year's event, but the 2019 72nd Annual Troy Turkey Trot was a windy affair, hitting runners in the face not only as they left the starting line, but also as they crossed the finished line.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- There is no such thing as a bad turkey on the fourth Thursday of November in Saratoga Springs. Sometimes it is colder than others, sometimes it is slower, but each year a few thousand people line up for a piece of the annual Christopher Dailey 5k Turkey Trot.
It’s hard to believe but as we enter this week’s action at Saratoga Casino Hotel, there are only three weeks remaining in the 2019 racing season. Time has certainly flown by and with the campaign entering its home stretch, the award nominees were named this week for the end of the season hol…
TROY, NY − Sophomore Casey Dornbach netted his first career hat trick to lead the No. 10 Harvard University men's hockey team to a 6-3 victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Friday night at the Houston Field House.
SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK − Nothing is sweeter than beating rival. That is no different for Union as they go back to back against RPI and keep the shoes in Schenectady, New York for another season.
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. – Often in a road race there are the easy winners, those who break the tape as the first male and female across the line, those that are first in their individual categories, those that break personal records along the way and then there are winners from the moment they wa…
TROY, NY − RPI's Saturday night matchup with Clarkson can be broken up into two parts: the part that Clarkson won, the part RPI won.
Lifelong horseman Larry Stalbaum has enjoyed success throughout his career and when the Michigan native comes to town with his horses, the veteran reinsman always seems to thrive.
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Playing in the final home game of the 2019 regular season, the University at Albany women’s soccer team honored its seven seniors on the roster to the tune of a 4-1 victory over the visiting Maine Black Bears.
Fall is here and at Saratoga Casino Hotel that has meant the kickoff of the annual Gary Kamal and Jim Derue Memorial Series’ for the last several years. This year’s installment of the Gary Kamal Memorial is the sixth since the series was instituted for pacers back in 2014 and this year’s Jim…
TROY, N.Y. – The Liberty League has announced its weekly award winners from women's soccer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Meagan Lettko has been named Defensive Performer of the Week.
TROY, NY − RPI comes out of the second weekend of the 2019-2020 season with a 2-2 record, once again splitting the results with a win and loss over the course of the weekend.
STILLWATER, N.Y. – There are big games, big plays and usually some big runs in high school football games.
A day the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation dreaded but knew eventually had to come finally arrived a week ago Tuesday when Quick Call, the organization’s oldest and best-known retiree – and its face of thoroughbred aftercare for nearly two decades – was euthanized “due to the infirmities o…
TROY, NY − It’s now year three in the Dave Smith Era for Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Hockey program, and with it, higher expectations.
It seems at times that Jaymes McAssey operates under the radar at the Saratoga Casino Hotel. It certainly isn’t because of a lack of success or at this point even a lack of sustainability. Perhaps it is due to the fact that he runs a smaller size stable than most of the more recognizable, “big” names among local trainers. And yes, he’s a young trainer that doesn’t have the history at the Spa that so many other veteran conditioners do but Jaymes has fared incredibly well in his thus far short time at Saratoga.
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. – It was a perfect afternoon for running Sunday afternoon making every runner, volunteer, fan and organizer pleased for the opportunity to give back to the annual Nick’s Fight to be Healed 5k.
TROY, NY − Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute picked up the 38-0 win over Anna Maria College Saturday afternoon at ECAV Stadium to improve to 3-1 this season as they enter into Liberty League competition next week.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Sometimes it’s not the number of chances but what you do when you get those chances.
BURNT HILLS, N.Y. – The Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake boys soccer squad plays up throughout the regular season hoping for a post-season payoff in ability and seeding in Class A.
ALBANY, NY − Bryant and Stratton Albany is a two year college that offers a select number of degrees, and now, is building an athletic program to help further the careers of student-athletes.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Golfers have a new place to hit the greens at any time of year with the opening of the new AndersMattsonGolf indoor golf studio.
TROY, NY − RPI didn't just open their season with Allegheny Saturday afternoon, they blew it wide open with a 52-14 win over the non-conference opponent.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown earned his second consecutive H. Allen Jerkens award, and third overall, for the Saratoga meet's top trainer with 41 wins, while Jose Ortiz [60 victories] registered his third Angel Cordero, Jr. award in four years as the leading jockey for the sum…
Rochester, NY—The Sage Colleges’ women’s tennis team opened the 2019 season on Saturday and with the release of the first Empire 8 Performers of the Week, the Gators continue to enjoy success on the tennis courts. Sage opened the season topping Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in the fi…
SARATOGA SPRINGS – When Perfect Alibi upset the Adirondack at 6-1 – besting odds-on Frank’s Rockette, who had endured a somewhat troubled trip – many thought the latter would get her revenge in Sunday’s $350,000 Spinaway Stakes (G1). Frank’s Rockette was once again sent off as the favorite (…
SARATOGA SPRINGS – In his successful wire job in the Suburban two starts back, Preservationist showed what he could do working from the front end. That style didn’t work as well one month later in the Whitney, especially with division leader McKinzie applying the pressure, as Preservationist…
Seth Benzel’s transition from flourishing race horse trainer to successful abstract artist has been a fascinating one thus far.
SARATOGA SPRINGS – In all but one of the races in her six-race winning streak, Break Even was not only able to make the lead; she was also able to create some space between herself and her pursuers.
TROY, NY − The ValleyCats have officially been eliminated from playoff contention.
In 2011, Joe Dietrick made his annual trip to Saratoga Race Course from his home in northeast Pennsylvania. He’s come here for decades, and when he was younger, he’d park his mobile home in Saratoga for the whole meet.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — One year after Omaha became the second Triple Crown winner for William Woodward’s Belair Stud in 1935, the owner’s iconic white silks with red polka dots returned to the American classics on another outstanding 3-year-old colt named Granville. Like Omaha, Granville was bre…
In 2017, longtime horse owner Wayne Kellogg was honored at the end of the year banquet/holiday party with an award never before given out at Saratoga Casino Hotel. Kellogg was given the “Dedication Award” that season after his stable enjoyed a feat never accomplished before at Saratoga and o…
ALBANY, N.Y. – The Aurora Games, a first-of-its-kind, international all-women’s multi-sport competition and entertainment festival featuring world-class athletes from across the globe, will return to the Times Union Center in Albany, NY, in 2021 and 2023.
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Despite a victory in the Fountain of Youth back in March, a second in the Kentucky Derby – after being moved up on the DQ of Maximum Security – and an impressive 3¼-length score in the Dwyer last month, Code of Honor had been something of a forgotten horse. When the conver…
SARATOGA SPRINGS – It’s been a long road back for Annals of Time. A Grade 1 winner (Hollywood Derby) in his fourth career start, the son of the Dynaformer stallion Temple City only made it to the races once over the next 30 months.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. - Significant Form prevailed in a five-horse charge to the wire on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course to win the Grade 2, $400,000 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa by a hard-fought neck and earn her second graded stakes of the year.
SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Travers, naturally, was the biggest story on Saturday – after all, it was Travers Day. As far as showdowns between individual horses were concerned, however, the match-up between Midnight Bisou and Elate in the $700,000 Personal Ensign (G1) was the day’s top attraction.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - William and Corrine Heiligbrodt's Mitole dueled up front with Grade 1-winner Promises Fulfilled and successfully shook away from his rival to net his third career Grade 1 win in the 40th running of the $600,000 Forego presented by Encore Boston Harbor at Saratoga Rac…
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Breaking from the inside gate, with little apparent speed among his eight rivals, Shancelot looked to have a good chance of duplicating his smashing tour-de-force four weeks ago (in the Amsterdam) in Saturday’s $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens (G1). The main concern was whether h…