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 — McKinleyville’s Tatum Fisher has been playing basketball for about as long as she can remember, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. On Tuesday, the Panthers senior […]
By Ray Hamill — To say the least, it was a good week for Del Norte High School sports. The Crescent City school’s baseball and softball teams both clinched Big 5 championships […]
By Ray Hamill — An 0-9 start to the season must seem like a long time ago to the Hoopa Warriors. No team in the H-DNL has improved as much from the […]
Tinnley Pidgeon returned to the Ferndale lineup for the first time this season on Thursday and had an immediate impact. The junior standout and teammate Madison Gossi hit home runs on back-to-back […]
By Ray Hamill — The field has been set for next week’s Charles Lakin softball tournament after Thursday’s Little 4 action, but it took a coin flip to finalize things. On the […]
The Hoopa Warriors have qualified for the Charles Lakin tournament for the first time, and they’ll carry some momentum into the postseason tournament. On Thursday, the Warriors traveled to St. Bernard’s and […]
By Ray Hamill — After waiting 11 years for a Big 5 championship, the Del Norte Warriors were in no mood to share. On Wednesday, four days after they clinched at least […]
By Ray Hamill — The Del Norte girls won a third straight championship in softball this spring, and on Wednesday they made sure it would be a third straight outright championship. After […]
The McKinleyville Panthers will be hoping to meet Del Norte once again in next week’s Charles Lakin tournament. On Wednesday, they closed out the regular with a hard-fought 1-0 win at Arcata, […]
By Ray Hamill — The schedules for this year’s Charles Lakin Tournaments have been announced by the H-DNL. The league’s postseason baseball and softball tournaments will take place next week with five […]
McKinleyville senior Jake Gardner capped a big spring in H-DNL boys golf with his third victory in six rounds on Monday. Competing at the Baywood Golf & Country Club in Arcata, Gardner […]
The Ferndale Wildcats scored five runs in the top of the second inning to take control of their game at South Fork on Tuesday. The Cats won the game 9-4, improving to […]
The Crusaders made it official on Tuesday afternoon. St. Bernard’s traveled to Hoopa for a Little 4 baseball game and won 8-1, securing the conference title outright. The Crusaders had already clinched […]
By Ray Hamill — A busy and pivotal few days for H-DNL baseball and softball got under way on Tuesday with three local games. In baseball, the St. Bernard’s Crusaders clinched the […]
By Ray Hamill — A busy spring for College of the Redwoods football will wrap up this week, as the local community college program gets set to host a scrimmage to close […]
The College of the Redwoods track and field teams traveled to compete in the NorCal championships at Butte College over the weekend, with four CR athletes advancing to the upcoming state championships. […]
By Ray Hamill — McKinleyville senior Gabby Watson is excited about the next chapter in her playing career, and her new coach is excited to bring her on board. On Friday night, […]
Good teams win championships, great programs win three of them in a row. And that’s exactly what the Del Norte girls achieved on the softball fields this spring, as they continue to […]
The Del Norte Warriors are Big 5 champs in baseball for the first time since 2014. Now the question is can they clinch the title outright with a win at Eureka in […]
The Fortuna girls did what they had to do on Saturday. Now they must play the waiting game. With a doubleheader sweep over Arcata, the Huskies closed out the Big 5 with […]
