The Fortuna Huskies and Del Norte Warriors will meet in the final of the Fort Bragg girls basketball tournament on Saturday night. The two Big 5 rivals won their semifinals on Friday, […]
At the age of 10, having failed in his lifelong ambition to become a vigilante vampire werewolf – otherwise known as a vamp-wolf – Ray Hamill finally admitted defeat and turned his attention full-time to daydreaming instead.
A mere few decades later, the world of crime fighting’s loss is now the literary world’s gain.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Ray moved to the United States after graduating college, spending time in Boston and San Francisco before settling among the redwoods in Northern California, where he has worked as a journalist for the past 20 years.
In that time he has published three books, including his most recent, Help, My Horse is Drowning!, a humorous look at the world of sports and the life of the enthusiastically delusional athlete in us all.
He previously published the outrageously satirical Free the Leprechauns! as well as the semi-autobiographical Help Me, Im Irish! - a book about the non-meaning of life.
Ray is also the host of a weekly sports talk radio show broadcast locally in Northern California on Blue Ox Community Radio, and a sports blog at barstoolfanatics.com.
The Fortuna Huskies and Del Norte Warriors will meet in the final of the Fort Bragg girls basketball tournament on Saturday night. The two Big 5 rivals won their semifinals on Friday, […]
The McKinleyville girls are enjoying their longest winning streak of the season after winning all three of their games on their way to a tournament championship at the Enterprise tournament. The Panthers, […]
The College of the Redwoods women are beginning to build some momentum on the basketball court as they head toward conference play. On Thursday the Corsairs opened the San Jose tournament with […]
The St. Bernard’s boys opened the Fort Bragg tournament with back-to-back wins on Thursday and Friday. The Crusaders opened with a 78-53 win over Clear Lake and followed that with a 63-20 […]
By Ray Hamill — Ferndale’s successful run toward a state championship this past season spoke highly of the tremendous tradition the Wildcats have in football. It also speaks highly of how competitive […]
The Eureka boys dropped back-to-back games on the road this weekend, losing at Ukiah on Friday night and at Kelseyville on Saturday afternoon. The Loggers fell 61-55 at Ukiah and 77-72 at […]
By Ray Hamill — The South Fork Cubs are the top-ranked Division-6 team in the North Coast Section in boys basketball, according to MaxPreps, and one of two H-DNL teams ranked in […]
By Ray Hamill — It has been a very impressive start to the new season for almost all of the H-DNL basketball teams, including four local girls teams who are ranked in […]
By Ray Hamill — The Fortuna Huskies have announced their end-of-season football award winners, including eight categories voted on by the players. Senior linebacker/fullback Caden Wilkinson took home four awards in addition to being […]
The McKinleyville boys and girls basketball teams closed out their pre-Christmas schedule with impressive road wins on Friday night. The Mack boys won 64-55 at Kelseyville, while the girls won 51-35 at […]
After watching his team lose heavily to the Huskies in boys basketball on Thursday night, Ferndale head coach Tristen Waters described Fortuna seniors Alfonso Medina and Russell Pascascio as “the best duo […]
By Ray Hamill — Three weeks after their historic bowl game victory, the Corsairs are succeeding off the field of play and continuing to set a high standard for College of the […]
By Ray Hamill — A group of talented young seventh graders are setting a standard that will be tough to beat at Jacoby Creek Elementary School. And more importantly, they’re going about […]
By Ray Hamill — There was plenty to celebrate about the 2023 high school girls soccer season, which gave us a lot of worthy candidates for our end-of-season awards. There were arguably […]
By Ray Hamill — It will go down as one of the most exciting high school boys soccer seasons we’ve seen in some time here on the North Coast. Four teams battled […]
By Ray Hamill — The Humboldt Bay Rowing Association Junior Team recently made the trip to compete at the Head of the Lagoon Regatta in the Bay Area, as the local club […]
By Ray Hamill — High school basketball season is in full swing here on the North Coast with league play fast approaching. And several local teams have been impressing through the early […]
Cal Poly Humboldt junior Emilia Long is enjoying an outstanding year competing for the Jacks. After helping to lead the Humboldt women’s soccer team to a postseason berth in the fall, Long […]
Ferndale held Fortuna to just eight second-half points on the way to knocking off their closest rivals in non-league girls basketball on Wednesday night. The Wildcats won 40-31 and improved to 7-3 […]
Russell Pascascio had a double-double on Tuesday night, as the Fortuna Huskies secured their third straight victory in boys basketball, winning 60-50 at South Fork. The senior standout, who is enjoying a […]