By Andy | July 31, 2006 - 7:36 pm - Posted in Amateur

The Guilford Patriots lost their first game of the Palomino East Zone Tournament Monday night up in Pitttsburg, PA to Dix Hill out of Queens, New York. The Patriots were down 8-1 but battled back before falling 8-5 and setting up a must win game Tuesday morning at 10am versus the same Dix Hill [...]

Read The Complete Article - Patriots Still Need One Win

By Don | - 5:45 pm - Posted in Amateur

I attended the United States-Japan baseball game at First Horizon Park Friday night. The attendance was relatively low-est. 1200-but the baseball action was extremely high. Japan took a 2-0 lead thru 2 innings on 2 run homer by Hisayoshi Chono. That lead was short lived, as the U.S.A. team scored 4 runs on a grand [...]

Read The Complete Article - US-Japan Baseball by Jim Modlin

By Andy | - 9:41 am - Posted in Amateur

The Guilford Patriots stopped North Alleghany on Sunday afternoon up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 6-2 to move within one game of going to Puerto Rico for the Palomino World Series. The Patriots were down 2-1 headed into the top of the seventh inning and they forced across the tying run, then game went to extra [...]

Read The Complete Article - Palomino Patriots One Win Away

By Andy | July 30, 2006 - 4:46 pm - Posted in Amateur

The Greensboro Batting Center defeated Rockingham County Saturday afternoon at War Memorial Stadium 9-0 and now Alan Ashkinazy’s squad will move on to play for the Colt World Series this week at Lafayette, Indiana.
The Batting Center which is the equivalent to the Greesnboro Green team was paced by Austin Moyer at the plate with [...]

Read The Complete Article - Colts Capture Crown

By Doug Cockman | July 29, 2006 - 7:15 pm - Posted in Amateur

The Guilford Patriots defeated the Dix Hill team from Queens, New York 12-2 in 5 innings on Saturday afternoon in the first game of the Palomino East Zone Tournament at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Ben Nunn, Lester Rivenbark and Nick Rogers paced the Patriots. Nunn went 3 for 3 [...]

Read The Complete Article - Patriots over the Hill

The Greensboro Colt baseball team got off to a 2-0 lead early and made it stand up as they knocked off Rockingham County in the 2006 Colt East Zone Tournament at Memorial Stadiium. Our local team coached by Alan Ashkinazy of the Greensboro Batting Center went on to finish off Rockingham County 6-3 for [...]

Read The Complete Article - Greensboro Team Claims Second Victory in Colt East Zone Tournament

If the Guilford Patriots Palomino baseball club is able to win the East Zone Tournament coming up this weekend up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the Pats will take their aluminum bats to the Palomino World Series down in Puerto Rico. The Pats are no strangers to the World Series competition but this year’s work will [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Patriots Might Be Leaving the Country/WFMX 105.7 Has Left the Country(Now WMKS/KISS FM)

The FOX Network is going to name a new host for their NFL pre-game show some time in the next few days. Many have speculated that they already know who it’s going to be, but they are waiting to make the big announcement. Kind of knowing my luck they will spill the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Weigh In When You Get a Chance:Who will be the New Guy(Host) on the Fox Network NFL Pre-Game Show and Who’s Watching the NFL, More Blacks or Whites?

By Andy | July 22, 2006 - 8:20 am - Posted in Professional

The Greesnboro Grasshoppers halted their 4 game losing streak Friday night in front of 7717 fans at First Horizon Park. The Hoppers rode the strong right arm of Ryan Tucker and the three big base hits and 2 runs scored by Jonathan Fulton to defeat Delmarva 4-0.
The Hoppers’ bullpen did not blow [...]

Read The Complete Article - Return to Glory: Hoppers Win Again

By Don | July 20, 2006 - 2:57 pm - Posted in Amateur, High School, Professional

Andy has gotton Christian Lewis to take some really great pictures of the Grasshoppers, East West Women’s Basketball, East West Men’s Soccer and Dynamo.
I’m in the process of coding these pictures so they seamlessly work with the Website; in the meantime, feel free to click the above links or the PICTURES link at [...]

Read The Complete Article - New Photo Pages

The Greensboro Grasshoppers have now lost 3 games in a row after Wednesday night’s 6-5 late inning breakdown with the Delmarva Shorebirds. The Hoppers jumped out to 4-0 lead early in the game on the strength of Greg Burns’ first homerun of the season, a three-run shot to right-center field in the bottom of [...]

Read The Complete Article - Hoppers in a Funk, John Thompson on 16th Street, New Sports Academy for the Triad

If Michelle Wie is a she which we know that’s the case, she needs to be back on the Women’s Golf Tour. Wie has been trying to compete with the men but she can’t even win on the LPGA circuit. At the John Deere Classic last weekend Michelle withdrew because it was too [...]

Read The Complete Article - Is Michelle Wie a She? If She is, Wie Needs to Be Back on the LPG(Kitchen)/Hoppers/All-Stars/Fred Whitfield

The Greensboro Grasshoppers have found First Horizon Park to be a lot like that place Dot(also known as Dorothy and Judy Garland) was talking about in the Wizard of Oz. “There’s No Place Like Home, There’s No Place Like Home”, that’s what Dorothy kept repeating in the WOZ movie. The Hoppers are not [...]

Read The Complete Article - Hoppers Say There’s No Place Like Home/High School All-Star Games Sneak Up On Us

By Doug Cockman | July 15, 2006 - 3:28 am - Posted in Professional

The Carolina Dynamo and the Atlanta Silverbacks U23 played to a 1-1 draw at the Mac on Friday evening.
Carolina jumped out to the first half lead, as Dynamo leading scorer Randi Patterson scored his 14th goal of the season. Atlanta responded minutes later as Silverback Macoumba Kandjl scored the tying goal.
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Read The Complete Article - Dynamo/Silverbacks U23 play to draw, More U.S. Open Cup Info

By Doug Cockman | July 13, 2006 - 6:07 am - Posted in Professional

It was a beautiful night for soccer at Macpherson Stadium on Wednesday night as the Carolina Dynamo continued on their quest to capture the Lamar Hunt/U.S. Open Cup. The USL’s First Division Seattle Sounders made the cross country trip to the Gate City to face off with the Dynamo with the winner heading to the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Dynamo quiet the Sounders, advance in U.S. Open Cup

The Carolina Dynamo will meet the Seattle Sounders tonight at Macpherson Stadium in the 3rd round of the US Open Cup. In their last Cup contest the Dynamo defeated the Richmond Kickers 1-0 and that game was two weeks ago tonight if my far reaching memory serves me correctly. The Sounders are an [...]

Read The Complete Article - Dynamo, Dynamo, “It’s Time to Prop Up Our Carolina(Greensboro) Dynamo”: Plus Hoppers-Ric Flair-Neal Hatcher-Cam Bennerman

By Andy | July 10, 2006 - 6:24 pm - Posted in Professional

With all the talk about what this town needs a thought came to me today and I decided to share the insights with all my good friends here at GBS.
G’BO needs a DOJO. A martial arts training center where the best in the world could come and train and then put on big-time [...]

Read The Complete Article - G’BO Needs a DOJO

By Don | July 9, 2006 - 11:28 am - Posted in Professional

On a stormy Wednesday night, the day after the Fourth of July, thousands of hockey fans made it out to see the Stanley Cup at First Horizon Park. By 6 PM, when the gates opened, there were fans in line to see the cup. By 7 PM, when the Cup was scheduled to [...]

Read The Complete Article - Stanley Cup Pictures

By Andy | July 7, 2006 - 11:52 am - Posted in Professional

The Greensboro Grasshoppers returned to Winnersville on Thursday night at First Horizon Park. They took out the Greenville, SC Drive for the first time in 3 games at home and with the 5-2 victory and the Hoppers have some life headed into the final game with Greenville toinght at FHP.
Thursday night the Hoppers faced [...]

Read The Complete Article - Hoppers Return to W’ville

By Andy | July 6, 2006 - 10:51 am - Posted in Uncategorized

The Greensboro Grasshoppers stranded 14 base runners on Wednesday night at First Horizon en route to an 8-3 loss to the Greenville, SC Drive. The Hoppers starting pitcher Mark LaMacchia gave up 6 runs in the 2nd inning and the Drive had enough to finish off the Hoppers. The Hoppers have continued to [...]

Read The Complete Article - Bring the Boys Home/Fans Go Cup Crazy