About ten years ago, I was freelancing for a Capital District monthly sports newspaper called CD Sports. It was an okay publication, they were one of the free newspapers that populated the region, along with Metroland and the Source. At the time, I had received word that a martial arts team from Albany had won…
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Ah, the Days of Capital Cablevision
I think it was 1975, I’m not sure of the exact year or date. At the time, I was living with my parents in Colonie, in one of those mobile home trailer parks that still dot Central Avenue today. I came home from school, expecting to watch whatever was on one of the four television…
Read MoreRemembering “Sports Challenge”
During the 1970’s, one of the coolest quiz shows on television was a weekend quiz show / interview show hosted by Dick Enberg called “Sports Challenge.” Two teams would receive trivia questions from Enberg, and try to answer correctly to win prizes. Oh, and did I mention that the “teams” were actual professional athletes? And…
Read MoreWhy Keveny Academy alumni are not thrilled with Street Academy
This is a post from my old blogspot.com weblog, but I thought it would be nice to share it with a larger Times Union.com readership. One of my greatest high school achievements (hell, one of the greatest achievements I’ve ever pulled off) was when my high school, Street Academy, defeated three consecutive schools on WRGB’s…
Read MoreSiena’s First National Basketball Championship
You know, it’s great to see the Capital Region represented each year in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It’s great to see the Siena Saints (and, on occasion, the UAlbany Great Danes) participate in postseason action. It’s produced so many memories for college hoops fans – the year Siena shocked the world and upset Stanford;…
Read MoreRemembering wrestling announcer Joe McHugh
Ah, weekend professional wrestling. Fun stuff. When I was growing up, it aired at 11:00 a.m. or 12 noon on WRGB, most often on Saturday or Sunday. I started watching pro wrestling in the early 1970’s, when the brand of wrestling provided in upstate New York was the World Wide Wrestling Federation (what we know…
Read MoreThe Tragedy of February 20, 1970
There are five children in this photograph, a still gleaned from a 1969 8mm home movie. I am the tallest, and am standing on the far left. My brother John Kennedy Miller, known at that time as “Jay,” stands next to me. My younger brother Allen Michael Miller is in the middle, and my sister…
Read MoreThe top New York Governor Scandals of all-time
I’m telling you… I can’t wait for the big bombshell the New York Times plans to drop on Governor David Paterson. I’ve heard every sort of rumor about what the big bombshell will be – does the Governor have another woman on the side, is he and his wife into “the lifestyle,” is this all…
Read MoreTimes Union snubs the Albany Patroons once again
I always wondered if our fair newspaper has something against the legendary minor league basketball team. For years, as an Albany Patroons fan, I used to grimace when reading team coverage in the TU – there would be articles about how the Patroons were going to move the franchise to another city, how the team…
Read MoreRemembering “Black Through the Years”
On this holiday in which we pay tribute to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., today I pay tribute to a very special high school play. See, the year before I arrived at Street Academy, the students in that school’s history classes wrote a series of vignettes on the history of African-American…
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