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Dartmouth Wraps Up Spring Camp With Competitive Spring Game
By: Justin Lafleur Story Links Season Ticket Deposit Spring Game Video Recap HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth football team wrapped up a strong spring season on Saturday with its annual spring game. The game was held in the Graham […]

HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth football team wrapped up a strong spring season on Saturday with its annual spring game. The game was held in the Graham Indoor Practice Facility due to heavy rain in the forecast and saw a tight 44-43 final in favor of Team White over Team Green.
Competition was a theme of the day.
“One thing we challenged our guys was to come out here today and compete,” said Sammy McCorkle, Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach after the game. “It’s the final exam. It’s a chance for us, coaches and your teammates, to see how you’re going to perform in a game situation.
“I thought our guys, first of all, took care of each other, but at the same time, you could see how it got physical, especially down in the red zone,” McCorkle continued. “The guys came out here prepared to play full speed the entire time, and we were able to accomplish all the things that we wanted to accomplish.”
The Big Green were hoping to get in between 90 and 100 snaps and ended up getting in 97, according to McCorkle.
“We were almost dead even on both groups getting the same amount of snaps,” he said. “That’s exactly what we wanted. We got two-minute situations, we got short-yardage situations.”
At halftime, the Big Green announced their captains, featuring rising senior offensive lineman Delby Lemieux, defensive back Sean Williams and wide receiver Daniel Haughton.
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“We’re used to having the spring game and games outside, but this spring game was a nice little switch up,” said Haughton. “We always talk about sudden change and being able to adapt and improvise. It was good and we came out and played with energy. Defense played well, offense played well. We competed really well.”
The Big Green are happy, but not satisfied. As Haughton said, there’s always room for improvement.
“Definitely think we can improve,” he said. “We have to be a little more consistent, a little more detailed, but this spring was a great start.”
Specific to Saturday, the offense had a number of big plays, but so did the defense, including two interceptions. One by Samuel Washington was the last play of the day.
“The offense and defense challenge each other every day,” said McCorkle. “The offense has shown it can be explosive. You saw that a couple times today. The quarterbacks did a good job finding our guys down the field, wide receivers did a good job catching the ball and getting explosive plays, which forces the defense to have to be very disciplined and making sure they’re in the right spots.
“But I thought our defense responded,” McCorkle continued. “Guys are playing with confidence, and you can see that with each practice; they became more confident as a whole. I’ve been really impressed by the guys we were expecting to need to step up [this spring], who maybe haven’t played so much in the past
“They did that.”
The Big Green, winners of four of the last five Ivy League Championships, enter the offseason with plenty of momentum.
“One of the biggest things we try to harp on is that we’re not last year’s team,” said Lemieux. “This is a new team. We’re the 2025 Dartmouth football team. I think we did a really good job of embracing that this offseason, coming into the spring and staying true to that throughout these last 12 practices and these workouts.”
“The best thing to take away from spring, whether it’s good or bad, is you can see what you need to improve on this offseason,” said Williams.
Dartmouth football can’t be complacent, which was a message from McCorkle.
“The biggest thing we wanted to do was get better with each practice,” he said. “We would add a little bit to every practice, but our guys did a really good job improving as we went along.
“We we had a good spring, but we have to continue to take this thing to the next level,” McCorkle continued. “This is not when we put it on cruise control. We challenged the guys, if you’re here on campus or you’re off campus, you have to be totally, totally committed. And this is a huge offseason, a huge summer leading into the preseason.”
Dartmouth football fans can get a jump on the 2025 season by securing their season tickets for next fall when the Big Green attempt to defend their Ivy League title and win their fifth conference crown in six seasons. To place your deposit today, visit the Dartmouth Athletics Ticket Office website or call 603-646-2466.
NOTE: Also announced at halftime Saturday were the Big Green’s most improved players in the spring by position, listed below.
Specialists – Julian Coviello
Quarterbacks – Noah Trigueros
Running Backs – D.J. Crowther
Tight Ends – Kristian Strong
Wide Receivers – James Elliott
Offensive Line – Godson Ajoku
Defensive Line – Taylor Faalele
Linebackers – Cameron Lee
Cornerbacks – Jorden Barnes
Safeties/Nickels – Samuel Washington
The @DartmouthFTBL team wrapped up its spring on Saturday with its annual spring game. Check out interviews and highlights, here!#GoBigGreen | #TheWoods
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Fans in Disbelief Over Charley Barkley NIL Confession to Auburn
Charles Barkley is making waves on social media again amid a stunning admission over the limits of NIL funding for his beloved Auburn Tigers. Barkley was a star player at Auburn in the 1980s before he embarked on a Hall of Fame career in the NBA and garnered additional fame as part of TNT’s Emmy-winning […]

Charles Barkley is making waves on social media again amid a stunning admission over the limits of NIL funding for his beloved Auburn Tigers.
Barkley was a star player at Auburn in the 1980s before he embarked on a Hall of Fame career in the NBA and garnered additional fame as part of TNT’s Emmy-winning “Inside the NBA” studio show. He has always given back to Auburn, especially as the men’s basketball program has ascended to elite status under head coach Bruce Pearl.
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But in a new interview with WJOX-FM in Birmingham, Alabama, Barkley has called the “notion” that he will give “legal or illegal” millions each year to Auburn University “the stupidest thing” he has ever heard.
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Greenfield Recorder – UMass hockey: Minutemen unveil 2025-26 schedule; open at home against Northern Michigan
UMass left wing Cam O’Neill is introduced before a game against Boston College at the Mullins Center in Amherst last season. STAFF PHOTO/DANIEL JACOBI II The UMass hockey team unveiled its 2025-26 schedule on Wednesday and a unique slate awaits the Minutemen next season. Starting with a two-game set on Oct. 4-5, UMass will welcome Northern Michigan […]


UMass left wing Cam O’Neill is introduced before a game against Boston College at the Mullins Center in Amherst last season.
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The UMass hockey team unveiled its 2025-26 schedule on Wednesday and a unique slate awaits the Minutemen next season.
Starting with a two-game set on Oct. 4-5, UMass will welcome Northern Michigan to the Mullins Center to kick off head coach Greg Carvel’s 10th season in Amherst. The Wildcats will be making their first ever trip to Western Massachusetts in the season-opening series. UMass last faced Northern Michigan in 1999.
The Minutemen’s non-conference portion continues the following week with an away game at Stonehill, one of the newest Division I programs in the country, on Oct. 10. The Skyhawks joined the top ranks during the 2022-23 season and are one of five independent teams nationwide.
UMass will then play its first of four games against Northeastern throughout the season the week after, on Oct. 17. Carvel confirmed during the offseason that due to American International College dropping its Division I program midseason last year, the Minutemen and Huskies decided to play an additional game against each other as a non-conference matchup. On Oct. 18, UMass will play Bentley for the second time in two years after beating the Falcons during its season-opener in 2024-25 in Waltham. Both games are set to be played at Mullins.
The Minutemen will make their longest journey of the regular season the following week when they head to Omaha, Nebraska for two games against the Mavericks. UMass will be making its first trip to the Cornhusker State since 2003. The Minutemen played Nebraska-Omaha during last season’s Ice Breaker Tournament in Las Vegas and lost, 3-2, in overtime.
Continuing the theme of former in-season tournament opponents, Cornell will square off with UMass twice at Mullins over Halloween weekend. The Big Red beat the Minutemen during last season’s Desert Hockey Classic in Tempe, Arizona, 4-2.
The month of November will be grueling for UMass as seven of its eight games will come against teams that made the NCAA Tournament in 2025. It starts with the second game against Cornell on Nov. 1, then two versus Maine — the reigning Hockey East champions – at home on Nov. 6-7. Next, the Minutemen will have their first home-and-home against Boston College on Nov. 14-15, before a Thursday-Saturday home-and-home with Providence starting on Nov. 20.
UMass will finish out its non-conference docket with a Black Friday showdown against Army in West Point, N.Y. on Nov. 28.
From then on it’s Hockey East play the rest of the way and the Minutemen will play games two and three against Northeastern in Boston to close out 2025 on Dec. 6-7.
Boston University will serve as UMass’ first opponent of 2026 on Jan. 9-10, before two against Merrimack on Jan. 16-17. Both will be home-and-home series for the Minutemen.
UMass then will make the drive up to Burlington, Vt. for the second year in a row for two against the Catamounts on Jan. 23-24.
The fourth and final contest with Northeastern is the week after on Jan. 30 at Mullins, then the Minutemen will have three consecutive games against in-state rival UMass Lowell starting on Feb. 1 before that stretches to another home-and-home on Feb. 6-7.
UMass will get a week off following its three against the River Hawks, then will have a pair of home-and-home series to close out the month of February. New Hampshire (Feb. 20-21) and UConn (Feb. 27-28) serve as the Minutemen’s two opponents in that stretch.
The Minutemen will close out their home schedule in early March with a bout against BC on March 5, then will head to Durham, N.H. for their regular-season finale against the Wildcats on March 7.
UMass’ 24-game Hockey East slate features three games against BC, UMass Lowell and UNH.
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Anthony E Montalbano Obituary – Saugerties , NY
Anthony E. Montalbano OBITUARY Saugerties Anthony E. Montalbano, 91, of Glasco Tpk. died Saturday, May 10, 2025, surrounded by his family. Born November 1, 1933, in Brooklyn, he was the son of the late Gesualdo and Josephine Montalbano. Tony graduated from Haaren High School in Brooklyn and Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, New […]

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Anthony E. Montalbano, 91, of Glasco Tpk. died Saturday, May 10, 2025, surrounded by his family. Born November 1, 1933, in Brooklyn, he was the son of the late Gesualdo and Josephine Montalbano. Tony graduated from Haaren High School in Brooklyn and Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge, New York. He designed planes for Republic Airlines and Grumman Airlines, and retired as an engineer from Rotron in Woodstock, N.Y. Tony was an avid speed skater most of his life. In 1955, he received the Silver Medal (2nd Place) at the prestigious Silver Skates at Madison Square Garden. Tony also enjoyed many other sports, including basketball, and was the MVP of his high school basketball team in Brooklyn, NY. Tony enjoyed building and flying model airplanes, boating, kayaking, hunting (including raising and training his own hunting dogs), cycling, clamming, fishing (including making his own lures and flies), and playing bocce with the Italian American Club of Ulster County. He was a member of the Shandaken Seniors Club, Phoenicia Fish and Game Club where he was a contributing writer of their newsletter. All of his interests, too numerous to list, have been passed down to his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Tony and his late wife, RoseMarie, enjoyed bowling, dancing, playing tennis, and camping (including making his first camper out of an old Wise Potato Chip truck). Together they started an annual family vacation to Tony’s favorite place, the Charlestown Breachway, in Charleston, Rhode Island. For over 50 years, he enjoyed fishing, clamming, and swimming every year with his family. Tony cherished his time with his loving family, and that love was never more present than on Christmas Eve, when the entire family would gather and Tony would prepare a traditional Sicilian Christmas Eve Family dinner. He enjoyed watching his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren play ice hockey and basketball, and he was there to celebrate every birthday and special event. Tony was a parishioner of St John the Evangelist in Centerville, NY in which he was very much involved. He was a Eucharistic minister and lector. Participated in Cursillo and Marriage Encounter. More recently, he attended Saint Francis DeSales Catholic church in Phoenicia and was very fond of Reverend Father Thomas Wilhelm. Predeceased by his wife, RoseMarie; survivors include his children: Donna Arnold of Kerhonkson, JoAnn Nickels of Fair Haven VT, Edward Montalbano (Amy) of Saugerties, and Margaret Montalbano of Saugerties; brother: Ben Montalbano; ten grandchildren: Rachel, Steve (Deanna), Miranda, Jason (Nikki), Shane, Aurelia, Remo, Jacob, Angelo and Leah; eleven great grand-children: Jadalyn, Elijah, Julian, Evangeline, Angelo, Ty, Siena, Blaise, Chiara, Mason and Isaiah; nephews: Christopher Montalbano (wife Juliany and child Julia) and Michael Montalbano (wife Sherlen and children Olivia and Andrew) and many other family members and friends in the United States and Sicily. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at St. Francis de Sales RC Church (109 Main Street, Phoenicia) at 11:00 AM on Thursday, May 15. Burial will follow in the Blue Mt. Cemetery, Saugerties. Friends will be received on Wednesday, May 14, from 5 pm to 7 pm at the Seamon-Wilsey Funeral Home (corner of John & Lafayette Streets) in Saugerties. Expressions of condolence may be shared with the family at SeamonWilseyFuneralHome.com.
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BREAKING: Mizzou Gymnastics picks up transfer #3 in IL State’s Sara Wabi
On Wednesday afternoon, we were greeted with Shannon’s new bat signal, which is him hoisting the third place national champ trophy, and while some Mizzou coaches haven’t quite gotten the timing down (sorry, Kellie), we didn’t have to wait long to see who it was. Say hello to Illinois State grad transfer, Sara Wabi! Per […]

On Wednesday afternoon, we were greeted with Shannon’s new bat signal, which is him hoisting the third place national champ trophy, and while some Mizzou coaches haven’t quite gotten the timing down (sorry, Kellie), we didn’t have to wait long to see who it was.
Say hello to Illinois State grad transfer, Sara Wabi!
Per Road to Nationals data, the Chicago, Ill. native (Marist HS) competed in vault, floor and bars lineups for Illinois State during her senior season. Let’s take a closer look at her numbers, shall we?
Sara didn’t compete vault collegiately until this year (per a Redbirds’ FB post), when she randomly vaulted in a November and did so well, she stayed in lineups throughout the season! She earned a high score of 9.875 in early February on her Yurchenko Full. The Tigers have a lot of pretty solid YFs (9.95 SV) at their disposal already at their disposal, so I’m not sure if we’ll see her in vault lineups, but there’s always a chance. I do LOVE to see a stuck vault, something Missouri struggled with this season.
Wabi (pronounced like Robby but with a W) also competed on floor for Illinois State, earning four 9.875 and two 9.85 scores last season to go along with a 9.865 NQS, but with the team’s mighty floor depth, I’m not sure we’ll see her there. If you want to watch a routine, she uses the same floor music as Kaia!
Sara’s best event and where I think she’s most likely to make lineups is bars, as the Tigers have a couple holes to fill with the graduation of Mara, Kyra, Amari, Jocelyn & Abby. The MIC bars champion scored a career-high 9.90 in late February and also scored three 9.875 and a 9.85 in the 2025 season. In fact, she scored 9.80-plus in 9 of 14 meets, including a 9.80 as an individual entrant in the Washington Regional, so the Tigers are getting someone with postseason experience.
You’ll notice in the video below that she does the same giant to double tuck that Mara (sad face) competed.
How much eligibility does she have? One year, as she just graduated from Illinois State. I’m wondering if she was awarded a 5th year after not competing (possible holdover injury from her sr year of HS) her freshman season. Sara will join recently announced returners, Grace Anne Davis and Lauren Macpherson, vault specialist Dakota Essenpries, and bars specialist Makayla Green. (links go to my Rock M stories)
This puts the roster at 21, which is one over the proposed roster maximum. The total number of transfers I think will ultimately depend upon what’s decided in the House settlement, which is currently at odds due to roster size. But as with any other sport, “There’s always spots when you need ‘em.” I think that’s a Sam Snelling original quote right there.
Here’s how the roster stacks up currently. It’s looking MIGHTY, MIGHTY STRONG, y’all, and while some of the gymternet saw this as a more random addition for Mizzou, the overarching opinion seems to be one of happiness that top programs are looking at her as she’s “super underrated.”
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Stay tuned for more Gym news here at Rock M. I suspect there will be more soon. Oh, and listen to the new ep of Majority Rules, which hit airwaves late last week.
#MIZ
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Nick Saban and Charles Barkley team up for first time at Regions Tradition
On a picturesque morning for golf, the 8:50 a.m. tee-time for the 2025 Regions Tradition Pro-am had as much star power and buzz as a final round at Augusta National. Paired with 2009 PGA Championship winner, and Huntsville native, Stewart Cink, two of the state’s most recognizable sports figures began their morning at Greystone Golf […]

On a picturesque morning for golf, the 8:50 a.m. tee-time for the 2025 Regions Tradition Pro-am had as much star power and buzz as a final round at Augusta National.
Paired with 2009 PGA Championship winner, and Huntsville native, Stewart Cink, two of the state’s most recognizable sports figures began their morning at Greystone Golf and Country Club.
Former Alabama football head coach and ESPN analyst Nick Saban was joined by Auburn basketball legend and TNT’s Charles Barkley.
In recent weeks, each of them has sounded off on some of the biggest topics in sports, from NIL, the state of college sports, to whether transgender athletes have a place in sports.
While Saban is quickly finding his voice, and complaints on hot topics under a new type of national spotlight, Barkley remains a firebrand in both a sporting and political realm.
However, Wednesday (for a couple of hours at least), the two hall-of-famers weren’t on studio sets, with sitting presidents, or having to pontificate (too deeply) the state on the state of their sports. They were just part of a paring of five playing golf, but that doesn’t mean the hot topics came up over the course of Wednesday afternoon.
Barkley flew into Birmingham straight from working NBA on TNT covering the NBA playoffs in Atlanta, Georgia.
Following the Pro-Am, Barkley is headed back to the Turner Sports studios, but didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to golf alongside arguably, the greatest football coach in college football history.
“This will be my first time golfing with coach Saban,” Barkley said before his tee time. “It’s always an honor to be around him because he’s the greatest college football coach ever. I have a lot of admiration and respect for him. It’s going to be fun today.”
For Saban, the feelings were mutual.
“I’m looking forward to playing with Charles today,” Saban said. “I have always looked up to Charles and thought he was a great player. He does a great job professionally in terms of media.”
“I certainly respect the fact that he comes home and supports the community the way he does. It’s something I’m looking forward to today,” Saban added.

NBA analyst and Auburn basketball legend Charles Barkley at the 2025 Regions Tradition Pro-Am at Greystone Country Club on May 14, 2025.Patrick Greenfield
Cink, their pro for the event shot four under par through the first six holes.
Barkley and Saban had some great strokes from the tee box. However, each had trouble on the fairways and greens at times.
“This is the only game I play where the more you play the worse you get,” Saban said. “It’s unbelievable but we have fun doing it.”
Barkley kept Saban’s spirits high throughout the day saying ‘great hit coach’ every chance he got following a swing.
The basketball legend had some nice shots of his own throughout the day, even getting a round of applause after making par on the first hole.
“I’m playing great right now,” Barkley said. “I’m excited for the summer so I can play golf every day. I have about three more weeks until I’m off for the next 12 months.”
With more golf awaiting Barkley this summer, a full day on the course with Saban made for one of the greatest sports crossovers of all-time.
As two worlds collided at Greystone Golf & Country Club, the Regions Tradition celebrity Pro-Am owes the state of Alabama nothing for this legendary pairing.
Jerry Humphrey III covers Auburn sports forAL.com. You can follow him on X at @Jerryhump3or email him at JHumphreyIII@al.com.
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Jordan Chiles thought she was ‘ugly.’ Now she’s on SI Swimsuit cover
U.S. and UCLA gymnast Jordan Chiles is a two-time Olympian and three-time NCAA individual champion. She looks completely comfortable in her own skin as she’s performing a floor routine to music by empowering artists like Beyoncé and proudly displaying the more than 20 “amazing art pieces” she has tattooed on her body. For much of […]

U.S. and UCLA gymnast Jordan Chiles is a two-time Olympian and three-time NCAA individual champion.
She looks completely comfortable in her own skin as she’s performing a floor routine to music by empowering artists like Beyoncé and proudly displaying the more than 20 “amazing art pieces” she has tattooed on her body.
For much of Chiles’ life, however, the body that helped propel her to athletic greatness made her feel “ugly” and self-conscious. But when she first saw photos of herself as a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, “I literally started bawling my eyes out,” Chiles recently told People magazine.

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Chiles said her mother, Gina, reacted similarly.
“My mom actually cried a few times from some of the photos because she’s been there literally every single moment of my life,” Chiles said, “so I think it was more of her realizing how beautiful her daughter is and what I’ve gone through.
“She was there when I would cry and be like, ‘Mom, they’re saying this. They’re saying that.’ Or I would look at myself in the mirror and call myself ugly almost every day. I think it was just really cool for her to know that I get this opportunity and that I get the ability to embrace who Jordan is.”
Chiles was a member of the U.S. Olympic squads that won team silver at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and team gold at the Paris Games last summer. Chiles was also awarded her first individual Olympic medal, a bronze in the floor exercise, in Paris but it was taken away because of a technicality.
At UCLA, Chiles won two national titles in the uneven bars (2023, 2025) and one on the floor (2023). She also finished second in the all-around competition in 2023 and helped the Bruins to a second-place overall finish this year. Chiles has already announced she will return to Westwood next year for her senior season.
When the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue hits newsstands on Saturday, Chiles will be one of four models appearing on her own cover (Olivia Dunne, Salma Hayek Pinault and Lauren Chan are the others). As opposed to how she felt looking at her own reflection years ago, Chiles said she is “in awe” after seeing herself on the front of the iconic magazine.
“I’ve embraced every single aspect of who I am and I’ve embraced the amazing body that I have,” Chiles said.
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