So there has been some recent talk from professional NBA players and some coaches out there talking about how bad AAU basketball is for the game.

Well we brought the President/CEO of Mass Elite AAU basketball on the podcast to try and set some things straight.  Eric Polli has been a high school coach and college prep coach and is now in charge of the AAU program.  He has a ton of experience with all aspects of it.  He makes some great points and explains how hard and how easy it is to deal with players, coaches and even parents.  He shines some great light on how everyone should go about having their players or even children look at sports and how to make the best decision possible.  Thank Eric for joining us and we can't wait to have you back on the show.

Enjoy the show everyone!!

This Quabbin alum joins us once again on the podcast.  This time he joins us with some great news.  

As you know he is a coach on the NJIT mens baseball team and he joins us to tell us that they have made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.  This was great news to the SportsBoys as we always love seeing the Quabbin guys do great things after Quabbin.  He has great talk about the experience from the beginning of the season that started off a little rough to now playing against the best team in the country.  What a ride and he couldn't have asked for a better group of guys to have on his team.  It is always a pleasure to have Anthony join us.

Please tune in Friday June 4th as they take on the Arkansas Razorbacks at 3pm ET in ESPN 3.  Good luck boys!!

So we went on a little rant about Kryie Irving and his awesome antics.  

He is at it again.  The guy talked before heading back to Boston for a playoff game and we wanted to reflect a little on how we felt about it.  This guy just never ceases to amaze us.  There are some great points made and as we aren't too high and the Celtics winning another game this season we still get to talk about Kyrie.

Enjoy the show!!

We had the pleasure of having a former 2 mile State Champion Mike Mooney join us for this episode. Mike is the head Cross Country coach at Quakertown High School in Pennsylvania and also is a track official.  This guy was such a great guest to have as he has so much knowledge of how and why anyone should run.  One his milestones that really caught us was his 4:57 mile at the age of 58.  This is something that is just out of this world.  See what else Mike has to talk about because he has some other great accomplishments that none of us could ever even come close to doing. 

Once again this was a great episode and a great learning experience for all.  Thank you everyone for listening and we hope you enjoy!!

So this episode was a bit different.  We decided to combine the two segments of Running Man Joe and Coach's Academy.  We brought a special guest on that was just superb to have aboard. 

Paul May joins us this episode and he is the son on the legendary Joe May of the LSU Tigers. Joe May claims fame for the 1958 National Championship for the Tigers as he was the one who kept Tommy Davis in line to keep him eligible to play for the team.

During Joe's time at LSU he sets records on the track and the football field.  For track he held the record for the javelin and set the record for kickoff return of 96 yards which wasn't broken until mid 1970's.  Joe is legend in Tiger country so we were honored to have his son join us to share his stories about him.

Paul May shares some incredible stories with us growing up in the LSU community.  He speaks about what his dad accomplished as a player turned coach at the university.  Paul's best way to describe his dad was that he wasn't the most athletic but he had grit.  Sometimes that's all you need.  I could keep writing but please just have a listen to this incredible episode and how much it meant to Paul to be able to talk about his father on the national level.

Thanks everyone for listening and enjoy the show!!

Rich once again gets another great guest to join us for this episode. Chris Robidoux, the head baseball coach at Quabbin Regional joined us for some great conversation.

Chris started as a 3-sport athlete at Ware High School which included football. basketball and baseball.  He graduated high school in 1990 and did so well in baseball that he was highly recruited by many schools but decided to stay local and pitched for the University of Massachusetts.  Chris starts with where it all started for him as a player and then carried it into what got him into coaching.  It is really cool because he explains what he learned from Rich early in his career as JV baseball coach to better himself later.  Chris was great to have on the show and we can't wait to have him back to tell us how his team did.

Thank you everyone for listening and we hope you enjoy yet another great show!!

Once again we bring Eric Ramos on board.  

We have some post draft things to talk about so who other than Eric to have join us.  We break down some of the Patriots top picks this draft and rate what we think.  Ramos does his research and he might even be a little jealous with one of our picks.

On another note Eric is a Packers fan so not a better time than when Aaron Rodgers is demanding a trade.  Who's side is Eric on?  Find out his take on why Rodgers wants to leave the Packers.  He may have a point.

Lastly....Lebron sucks.  This guy needs to think before he speaks from this point on.

Enjoy the show everyone!!

So we finally got him on the pod! Joe's son chase joined us what a great guest.

Chase Cauvin runs high school cross country for CBA in New Jersey who was an astounding record for winning these events.  His team has won 370 straight cross country meets and Chase has been a part of this the last 4 years.  Chase talks with us about the differences when starting as a freshman on this team and ending as a senior.  He also talks about training strategies that could help all of us out.  For you younger people or older he has some great advice to keep your body going.  He was a great guest to have on the show!

I hope everyone enjoys and please share!!

It was such a great honor to have Mike Richard join us for this episode of Coach's Academy.  Mike was in the Quabbin Regional class of 1974 and became and avid sports writer.

Mike has been sports writing for 42 years now and even though he lives in Cape Cod he continues to write for the Gardner News and be very much involved in Central Mass sports.  After graduating he was an English teacher at Quabbin and even began coaching wrestling and softball.  

This guys memory of all events that happened at Quabbin or nearby schools was absolutely tremendous.  He was such a great guest to have on the show as he told so many great stories of things he saw and wrote about.  If you have a chance read some of his stories as said he still writes for the Gardner News and for the Cape Cod league in baseball.

We hope everyone enjoys this show as much as we did.  Thank you for listening and enjoy!!

Rob Gronkowski makes record breaking catch that we obviously had to talk about.  As much as we don't like the guy anymore it's something we had to bring up.  It was quite incredible but would have been better if he was still a Patriot.

Big news that Julio Jones is possibly on the trading block.  Good news for us as Pats fans?  Not sure if this is something Bill will pull the trigger on.  Wouldn't mind seeing him in New England.

Another gruesome UFC leg injury.  Weidman tries to make a leg kick and snaps his leg at the same time.  We aren't big into the UFC stuff but this was worth talking about of course.

Guess what!!  The Yankees suck so far.  Can you tell we are happy about this.  Some unreal losing data and with that payroll they should be much better.  Nothing more that we like to see than the Yankees sucking this bad with that payroll. 

Lebron James rookie card.  How much?  A lot of money, that's how much.

Steph Curry also breaks some records over the last week.  We were not dogging him last episode but this guy is special.  Find out what records were broken and what we think about it.

Enjoy the episode and share with friends and family!!