Danes determined to get another title in 2012 The University at Albany football team is forced to take a roundabout route to the fields for spring practice. Temporary fencing blocks the usual path from the locker room because UAlbany is starting c… more »

If there was a play of the day during Saturday’s Monmouth University intrasquad football scrimmage, it was provided by backup quarterback Craig Peterson, a fifth-year senior, and reserve wideout Eric Sumlin, a rising sophomore. Peterson (Manalapan),… more »

In the late fall afternoons of 2010, Monmouth freshman wide receiver, Neal Sterling, reeled in one reception after another. Except they didn’t count. The 6-foot-3, 235-pound former Manasquan High School standout was doing his damage in practices o… more »

UAlbany football coach Bob Ford is telling the story of his dad Christopher, and how he moved young Bob and the rest of his family all over New England. “We lived in all six New England states and 14 towns in Massachusetts,” Ford said the other day a… more »

A Monmouth University football player was introduced to a reporter this week as, “The electric Mitchell Pollard.” The Hawks hope the sparks will be flying again at 1 p. m. today from the feet of Pollard, the No. 2 pass reception leader in the Northea… more »

Thirteen years of football might have prepared Tim Little for this moment, but when No. 16 ran out to the huddle for the first time in a Sacred Heart uniform in the season opener against Marist last month, he had to remind himself of a simple thing.… more »

The news out of Robert Morris University Tuesday was not that coach Joe Walton had been given a contract extension. It was that Walton, the only head football coach the Colonials have had, will step down after the 2013 season. That would give Walton,… more »

Albany defensive end Eddie Delaney has lived with both a physical deformity and diabetes for most of his life, but this hasn't stopped him from reaching his dream. Put yourself in the shoes of a Division I defensive end. Imagine walking up to the lin… more »

Are all football games created equal? Coaches will tell you that is the case, that they take them one at a time goes the tired cliche, but sometimes a particular match-up screams of extra relevance. Central Connecticut State’s visit to Wagner Coll… more »

West Virginia will face NCAA Football Championship Subdivision opponent Norfolk State on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium. This will be the third consecutive year the Mountaineers have faced an FCS team. Norfolk State is out of the Mid-Eastern Athlet… more »

It’s like comparing apples and oranges. And that’s why the next two years are so important for Monmouth University football. It’s not like the Hawks, with just over 30 scholarships, can’t compete with fully funded Football Championship Subdivision… more »

On a bright, sunny September day in 1993, players wearing Monmouth University football helmets took the field for the first time at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. In those infant days of Monmouth football, the Hawks’ opponents included other smal… more »

Dan Sullivan remembers everything about the play in the first quarter against Robert Morris. How could he not? There was the pain in his left shoulder, and constant replays on the big screen inside Joe Walton Stadium back on Oct. 9, 2010. “It w… more »

Robert Morris football coach Joe Walton said it's a good time to be in the Northeast Conference. League members now can compete in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, as Robert Morris did last season for the first time in school history.… more »

Considering Wagner College’s 5-6 finish of a year ago, it’s not surprising the Northeast Conference coaches ranked the Seahawks seventh in the nine-team league in the preseason poll released yesterday. But there was a crucial missing element that c… more »