The McKinleyville Panthers apparently weren’t in much of a sharing mood on Friday night. After clinching a co-championship in the Little 4 last week, they sealed it outright this week with a […]
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 McKinleyville Panthers apparently weren’t in much of a sharing mood on Friday night. After clinching a co-championship in the Little 4 last week, they sealed it outright this week with a […]
A busy fall for the Institute of Combat fighters continued last weekend with two of the gym’s MMA fighters competing at the 559 Fights in Visalia. Israel Smith improved his record in […]
An impressive season for College of the Redwoods cross country continued on Friday, as the women’s team swept the top three spots on the way to a comfortable team victory at the […]
Eureka’s Charlotte Leonard appears to be peaking at an opportune time. After four straight second-place finishes in H-DNL cross country, the senior ran her best race of the season and posted a […]
The Cal Poly Humboldt women’s soccer team is headed to the playoffs for the first time in 16 years after a 1-0 win over Chico State at College Creek Field on Thursday. […]
The Fortuna Huskies’ decade of dominance in local boys soccer officially came to an end on Thursday when the Arcata Tigers clinched their first outright H-DNL title since 2012. The Tigers needed […]
The Crusaders are champions of the Little 4 in girls soccer after holding Ferndale to a 0-0 tie at St. Bernard’s on Thursday afternoon. Ferndale needed to win to share the league […]
By Ray Hamill — Three former H-DNL quarterbacks are coming off big weekends for their respective teams on the college fields. Arcata’s Shane Purcell, a freshman at Contra Costa College, was named […]
By Ray Hamill — The Eureka girls soccer team honored their senior class before Wednesday’s league finale against Arcata at Albee Stadium. The five seniors — Sydney Madsen, Amelia Staiano, Claire Maples, […]
The McKinleyville Panthers continued their late-season surge with a second straight win in Big 4 girls soccer on Wednesday. The Mack girls won 2-1 at Fortuna and leapfrogged the Huskies in the […]
The Arcata Tigers denied their biggest rivals a perfect league campaign thanks to a second-half goal from Zoe Macknicki on Wednesday night. After losing twice to Eureka earlier in league play, the […]
Two H-DNL teams won their opening games in the North Coast Section volleyball playoffs on Wednesday night to advance to the weekend quarterfinals. At St. Bernard’s, the Crusaders defeated Holy Names in […]
By Ray Hamill — Here we go again. The Hoopa Warriors find themselves in a familiar position heading into the stretch run of the season, needing to win both of their final […]
By Ray Hamill — After watching the weekend game at Albee Stadium, we may have over-estimated the gap between the top two teams in our rankings, but not the order. The Del […]
By Ray Hamill — It’s been a long time coming, but for the first time in close to three decades the McKinleyville Panthers are league champions in football. And that gets them […]
The North Coast Section volleyball playoffs got under way on Tuesday night with two local teams in action. In Division 3, the Eureka Loggers fell in four sets at Archie Williams, while […]
The race for the boys H-DNL championship will go down to the final night of action, although the Arcata Tigers won their game in hand on Tuesday night to claim at least […]
The Del Norte Warriors stretched their unbeaten streak to seven straight games with a 2-0 victory at South Fork on Tuesday. The win lifts the Warriors to 4-2-3 in the Little 4 […]
By Ray Hamill — There was no shortage of big talking points after an exciting weekend of games in local high school football. The Big 4 kicked off with two games that […]
By Ray Hamill — The H-DNL boys soccer championship will be decided this week, one way or the other. The league issued a clarification on Tuesday morning amid some confusion as to […]