The Corsairs’ hopes of winning a conference championship took a hit on Saturday as College of the Redwoods fell 25-22 to De Anza College at the Redwood Bowl. Both teams came into […]
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 Corsairs’ hopes of winning a conference championship took a hit on Saturday as College of the Redwoods fell 25-22 to De Anza College at the Redwood Bowl. Both teams came into […]
By Ray Hamill — Their season may ended in disappointment on Friday night, but the Eureka Loggers showed a lot of fight this fall and should be a force to be reckoned […]
The College of the Redwoods women’s basketball team traveled to Contra Costa on Saturday and came away with a 63-29 win. The victory was the second of the young season for the […]
It’s still very early in the season, but the College of the Redwoods men’s basketball team is off to another outstanding start. After Friday night’s 79-64 win over San Mateo in their […]
By Ray Hamill — Never say never. On Friday night, the Huskies kept their playoff and Big 4 championship hopes alive with a 28-20 win over the Eureka Loggers in Fortuna, salvaging […]
There was little to separate the two Del Norte soccer teams and their opponents in a pair of North Coast Section Division-1 playoff games on Friday. The Del Norte boys traveled to […]
By Ray Hamill — The Eureka girls comfortably took care of business in their Division-1 North Coast Section fall soccer playoff opener with a 7-0 win over Upper Lake on Friday afternoon. […]
The South Fork girls lost their North Coast Section Division-3 soccer playoff semifinal at Mendocino on Friday afternoon, falling 2-1 to the top seeds in the bracket. The win for the Cardinals […]
The St. Bernard’s Crusaders have qualified for a sixth consecutive North Coast Championship final in girls soccer after a 4-2 win over Technology in Rohnert Park on Friday afternoon. The No. 3 […]
With just one loss in their last six games, the Lumberjacks have secured a playoff spot for the third straight year in women’s soccer. The Cal Poly Humboldt women closed out the […]
By Ray Hamill — Eureka sophomore Claire Gast capped an outstanding regular season in H-DNL cross country with her fifth victory in five races at the Arcata Sports Complex on Wednesday afternoon. […]
By Ray Hamill — Arcata’s Evan Poston is peaking at the right time. The impressive sophomore got his first career league win in the final H-DNL regular-season race of 2024 at the […]
Former Fortuna Husky Alfonso Medina enjoyed a breakout game at the collegiate level on Thursday night, leading College of the Redwoods to a 79-61 win at Mendocino College. Mendina scored a team-best […]
By Ray Hamill — The season may not have ended the way they wanted it to, but the Arcata girls enjoyed a memorable fall in volleyball and one player in particular played […]
By Ray Hamill — With one more game to go in the regular season, the Arcata Tigers are closing in on a perfect regular season. The Tigers improved to 9-0 on the […]
By Ray Hamill — After an outstanding start to the North Coast Section fall soccer playoffs for the H-DNL teams on Wednesday, dates, times and venues have been finalized for the next […]
By Ray Hamill — The Jacoby Creek Panthers had another season to remember on the volleyball court, with the school’s eighth graders winning a second straight Bay League title. And they did […]
By Ray Hamill — Heading into the final weekend of the regular season in football, six of the nine local varsity teams are ranked in the top five in their respective divisions, […]
By Ray Hamill — Football features heavily in this week’s awards, with a pair of championship teams and a consistently productive junior getting the nod. It’s been a difficult and up-and-down season […]
Here we go again. The McKinleyville Panthers and Fortuna Huskies will face off for a fifth time this season in the North Coast Section Division-1 quarterfinals after both successfully navigated their playoff […]