01 March 2010
If I told you back in the fall of 2004, the last season he played for Bunnell, that Marcus Easley was NFL-bound, you wouldn’t have believed me. If I told you that before spring 2009, you still wouldn’t have. But a tremendous spring last season at UConn, coupled with a tremendous senior season for the Huskies [...]
28 February 2010
Stamford graduate Vladimir Ducasse’s draft stock is rising, according to ESPN.com. The offensive lineman and All-America pick out of UMass ran a 5.21 40-yard dash and benched 225-pounds 29 times yesterday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Scouts may have a concern with Ducasse’s Wonderlic score of 13, according to Rotoworld.com. But the NFL scouts [...]
27 February 2010
Here’s something I forgot to update a few weeks back. I got a text message from Bassick head coach Frank Marcucio a few weeks back with some great news: The father of Jordan and Teddy Claude, who was presumed to be a victim of the devastating earthquake that leveled Haiti in January, is alive. The elder [...]
27 February 2010
Is it too late to look back on the 2009 high school football season? Probably, but I’m going for it. I saw Ridgefield head coach Kevin Callahan at the FCIAC girls basketball semifinals on Wednesday, and that reminded me I never made mention of Ridgefield going 9-1 but not making the CIAC Class LL playoffs. All [...]
15 February 2010
Is your team ready for the 2010 season? Show it on July 10, when BlueStreak Sports Training and the FCIAC Football Blog present the Fairfield County 7 on 7 Grip It and Rip It Passing Tournament. The event will take place at New Canaan High School and will showcase Fairfield County’s premier programs as well as [...]
13 February 2010
Major construction on the FCIAC Football Blog has finished, so your commute to posts, videos and whatnot is complete. I’ve also imported archives that go back to the blog’s humble beginnings as an expiriment in social media on the blogger.com platform. Most of the old posts are up, there are some from the year or [...]
05 February 2010
For years, I’ve been calling Boyle Stadium a dump. And the responses have been like “Oh, no, it can’t be a dump! The FCIAC Championship Game is played there every year!” Well the Stamford Board of Education doesn’t seem to care about the 73-year-old facility, either: It ranks Boyle Stadium 22nd out of 23 in [...]
03 February 2010
Signing Day is here, and now it’s official: King receiver-running back-defensive back Eric Joyner has signed a Letter of Intent to play football at University of New Hampshire. Rich DePreta has the story on StamfordAdvocate.com. So who else signed where? Well we already know Silas Redd and Khairi Fortt are at Penn State, and Kevin Pierre-Louis [...]
26 January 2010
McMahon today named former player A.J. Albano as the head coach of its football team. Albano replaces another former player, Joe SantaLucia, who was asked by athletic director Joe Madaffari to step down at the end of the 2009 season. Albano, who played at McMahon under current Darien head coach Rob Trifone from 1997 to 2000, [...]
23 January 2010
Former Stamford High School star Vladimir Ducasse got good news about his family, and will use his status as a soon-to-be NFL player to encourage others to help. Bassick lineman Jordan Claude's father is among the thousands who have died.