I enjoy working with the Premier Basketball League. There’s a lot of great talent and supportive fans throughout the league. And there’s one other important factor with the PBL. They’ve got some seriously hot dance squads. Now, understand something. I’m partial to my favorite dance team of all time, the Albany Patroons’ fabulous Emeralds squad…
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From 2007 to 2012, I worked for the Premier Basketball League as their stat man and photographer.
The Deck Chair from the Titanic
Ian McCarthy is the general manager of the Saint John (New Brunswick) Mill Rats of the Premier Basketball League. Before then, he was the general manager of the team when it played in Manchester, New Hampshire as the Millrats (one word, it’s two words now) from 2007 to 2010; and before then, when the team…
Read MoreRest in peace, John Strickland.
The first time I saw John Strickland play, he was part of a travel team that came up to Albany in the winter of 2006, to play the Patroons in an exhibition game. The Patroons dominated the contest, but during the game John Strickland did show some great defensive moves and an ability to frustrate…
Read MoreShowing some support for Carrie Ann May
So a few days ago, I blogged about getting back into working with the Premier Basketball League for its fourth consecutive season of operations. I talked about how I first joined up with the PBL, how I did everything from photography to statistics to game write-ups – and in other posts on this blog, I…
Read MoreI can hear the basketballs bouncing already…
The Premier Basketball League is getting ready to start its fourth consecutive season. And I’ve been with the league since Day One – January of 2008. So how did a guy from Albany get involved with a sports league that doesn’t even have a team anywhere near Albany? For that, we have to go back…
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I took this shot during a Rochester-Halifax PBL basketball game in March of 2010. Photo by me. Caption by you.
Read MoreThe Louis Saunders Memorial Basketball Tournament in Roxbury
Last year, Ian McCarthy, the general manager of the PBL team in Manchester, asked if I would come and photograph his team as they participated in a summer money tournament in Boston. I had a free weekend, and Ian’s a good guy, so I said sure. This meant traveling to Boston for the weekend, and…
Read More“Is the photographer singing the national anthem?”
The Vermont Frost Heaves joined the Premier Basketball League for the 2008-09 season, and did quite well for themselves, making the playoffs and selling out the Barre Municipal Auditorium and the Burlington Memorial Auditorium most nights. Their fans would drive to every Frost Heaves road game, from Halifax to Lawton (the only one they didn’t…
Read MoreMicheal Ray Richardson, John Strickland and Heckler’s Row
Back in the day – by “the day” I mean the 2006-07 Albany Patroons basketball season – head coach Micheal Ray Richardson guided the Pats to the CBA championship best-of-five series against the Yakama Sun Kings. In fact, here’s a photo of Micheal Ray Richardson getting just a smidge upset over a call that didn’t…
Read MorePhotographing an Exploding Basketball Backboard
It’s a moment everybody wants to see, but nobody knows when it’s coming. In March 2008, I was photographing the Premier Basketball League finals between the Rochester Razorsharks and the Arkansas Impact at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester. During the first quarter, Rochester’s Keith Friel tried to hit a three-point jumper, only to have the…
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