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.
By Ray Hamill — Del Norte senior Danika Scott highlighted an impressive weekend for the H-DNL at the North Coast Section wrestling championships, winning an individual title. The Warriors standout pinned one […]
By Ray Hamill — Tickets for Friday night’s historic doubleheader of playoff basketball games at College of the Redwoods will go on sale on Wednesday at noon. The CR women’s team will […]
By Ray Hamill — Tag Wotherspoon and Matt Tomlin will call the action from the big all-local North Coast Section basketball showdown between St. Bernard’s and Ferndale on Wednesday night, with the […]
By Ray Hamill — Humboldt State athletics announced on Tuesday that registration is now open for the Christie Pearce Rampone soccer clinic. The long-time international soccer star and former U.S. women’s team […]
By Ray Hamill — College of the Redwoods basketball fans will get a dream doubleheader of playoff games on Friday night. Early Monday afternoon, the men’s team was awarded the No. 8 […]
By Ray Hamill — Few players in North Coast basketball can boast the sort of success that Thomas Nelson can. Wherever he goes, all he does is win. In fact, in his […]
College of the Redwoods continued to struggle on the baseball field over the weekend, dropping a third game at Lassen on Saturday. The Corsairs lost 18-5 and were outscored 40-7 in the […]
By Ray Hamill — It’s going to be a big week for the Little 4. Three of the conference’s four teams are still alive heading into Wednesday’s North Coast Section Division-VI boys […]
By Ray Hamill — The College of the Redwoods women’s basketball team will open the NorCal playoffs at home to Skyline on Friday. The Corsairs received the No. 8 seed for the […]
Del Norte’s Danika Scott was crowned NCS champion on Saturday, capping a good day for the H-DNL at the section wrestling championships. Scott pinned Casa Grande’s Lilly McCoy, the No. 3 wrestler […]
By Ray Hamill — The Little 4 is standing tall in the North Coast Section playoffs, with three of the four teams advancing to the Division-VI semifinals. And that means all three […]
It may have ended a few games earlier than hoped for, but it will go down as one of the greatest seasons in Fortuna girls basketball history. On Saturday night, the No. […]
The four remaining Big 5 teams in this years’ North Coast Section playoffs all lost on Saturday, although all four of them went down battling. None more so than the Arcata Tigers, […]
The St. Bernard’s girls bowed out of the Division-IV North Coast Section basketball playoffs with a 64-36 loss at No. 1 seed St. Mary’s on Saturday night. The loss ends another very […]
Humboldt State will hold a celebration of life for Evelyn Andrews on Sunday at 3 p.m., after the Lumberjacks softball player passed away earlier this week. Andrews was diagnosed with lymphoma in […]
By Ray Hamill — Just a few days after winning the program’s first conference championship in 40 years, five College of the Redwoods women were honored on the all-GVC teams. Ashley Quigley, […]
The Corsairs dropped both ends of a softball doubleheader at San Jose on Saturday, losing 8-2 and 4-0. College of the Redwoods got the day off to a positive start with two […]
By Ray Hamill — The College of the Redwoods men’s basketball team will discover its playoff seed on Monday around noon, but contrary to earlier reports coming out of the school the […]
By Ray Hamill — A phenomenal season on the basketball court for the College of the Redwoods men has been recognized by the Golden Valley Conference coaches, with a near sweep of […]
By Ray Hamill — The Lumberjacks lost a tough game in rugby on Friday night, but got some good news in the process. According to assistant coach Vince Celotto, St. Bernard’s senior […]
