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Robbie LaBrie

No more hot sports takes from this guy

December 8, 2011 Sports

By Robbie LaBrie Brett Favre was a beloved quarterback by people everywhere. He eventually became nothing but an old guy who wore jeans and wouldn’t go away. Lil’ Wayne once wrote a little song called How to Love. If this song taught the world anything, it’s that some things should just be stopped before they [...]

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Even a dynasty can hit a crossroads

November 10, 2011 Uncategorized

The Patriots’ focus on Brady has hurt their once dominant defense By Robbie LaBrie For some NFL teams, there is no defining moment or defining game. Sometimes teams cruise through the season with little trouble like the Packers this year or the Patriots of 2007 or the Colts during a majority of the Peyton Manning [...]

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Theo and the death of Moneyball

November 3, 2011 Sports

Computer models no longer give MLB teams an advantage By Robbie LaBrie This is probably an issue in baseball that deserves far more than 600 words of attention, but we have yet to give any attention at all to the whole Red Sox meltdown/clearing house of Theo and Francona. The first thing to get straight [...]

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Did the Major League Baseball season even happen this year?

October 20, 2011 Sports

By: Robbie LaBrie As If a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s there to hear it, does it make any noise? While the Milwaukee Brewers fought for the life of their season and the St. Louis Cardinals fought to reach the World Series on Sunday, week six was going on in the NFL. It [...]

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State of the Union: Boston Bruins From history-making shame, to Stanley Cup Champions

October 6, 2011 Sports

By Robbie LaBrie If you’re a fair-weather Bruins fan, there’s a very good chance that you didn’t even realize Boston had a hockey team until a couple of years ago. Now, the biggest playoff collapse in NHL history and one big trophy later, and the Bruins have finally earned their place among Boston’s reign of [...]

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Head coach: $5 million, stadium: $150 million, student athlete: Priceless?

September 29, 2011 Sports

By Robbie LaBrie “You have some mighty strong-looking workers here, sir… Now, when we sell their likeness for video games, how do we get around paying for our slav-, uh, student athletes then?” – Eric Cartman College football and basketball are billion-dollar industries, providing at least six-figure salaries for its athletic directors, million-dollar salaries for [...]

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Jamaal Charles is destroying my GPA

September 22, 2011 Sports

Fantasy football can easily consume your life By: Robbie LaBrie Sunday morning, 8:27 a.m.: I wake up to a spinning room. I chug two bottles of water and go to the bathroom. Come back to the room and chug one more bottle of water. 8:31 a.m.: My head hits the pillow and I’m back to [...]

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Women’s lacrosse pushes ahead in NE-10

April 14, 2011 Sports

Falcons win three of their past four conference games By Robbie LaBrie Bentley women’s lacrosse is lurking in the Northeast-10 and they are a team that nobody really wants to play right now. Their record is 4-3 in the conference, which may not seem incredible, but in a conference where parity is the name of [...]

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Bentley struggles against its top NE-10 opponents

April 14, 2011 Sports

With an easier schedule coming up, the Falcons move on with high expectations By Robbie LaBrie Bentley baseball has gotten off to a bit of a rough start against some of the best teams in the Northeast-10. They have a 2-8 record in conference play and 8-17 record overall, which puts them second to last [...]

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Men’s lacrosse tallies strong wins

April 7, 2011 Sports

Winning three straight games in a row, the Falcons are on fire By Robbie LaBrie After dropping their first three games of the season, which included two non-conference games, the Bentley men’s lacrosse team has won three straight games, all in conference, to improve their record to 3-3 overall and 3-1 in Northeast-10 play. The [...]

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Lady Falcons open up their season 7-3 in sunny Florida

April 7, 2011 Sports

After coming back to Bentley, the women’s team has had six of the past eight games postponed due to inclement weather By Robbie LaBrie The Bentley softball team got off to a hot start in Florida in mid-March, and it seemed like nothing could hold them back. Unfortunately, Mother Nature was one thing the Falcons [...]

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Falcon Men fall just short of Elite Eight

March 24, 2011 Sports

Bloomfield takes Bentley in a close Regional championship game By Robbie LaBrie After getting knocked off in the NE-10 championship game by Adelphi, the Bentley Men’s Basketball team looked to turn things around with a trip to the Elite Eight for the second year in a row and the fourth time in five years. The [...]

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