IS THE RIVALRY HISTORY?
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      The 30th Island Cup game is now history - and the rivalry between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard may be as well. "I think it's come to a point in time where we're not going to be able to compete with the Vineyard anymore because of the numbers," Whalers coach Vito Capizzo said this week. "I don...
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Coach Capizzo hurt in third quarter pileup
      There was an unsettling moment midway through the third quarter of Saturday's game when Nantucket coach Vito Capizzo was knocked to the ground when a play spilled over the visitors' sideline. The Vineyard had just scored to go up 42-0.
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Vineyard harpoons Whalers, 48-6
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      The sun peeked through high clouds and a steady breeze blew toward the Nantucket side of the field. The weather was crisp, but not intolerable. Fans flew or took an early morning boat, and many cars in the Vineyard's high school parking lot were decorated in blue and white. Conditions, all in all,...
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Teacher, coach and broadcaster
Dick Herman, always there for Nantucket
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      Growing up in Cambridge, Dick Herman got to his share of Harvard-Yale games. The last one he attended was one of the most celebrated contests in New England sports history - the 29-29 tie that Harvard "won" in 1968, after Yale had a 29-13 lead, and the ball, with less than two minutes remaining ...
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TIGHT LINES
GIVING THANKS
with Andrew Spencer
      It's that time of year again when we all try to travel despite the warnings that it's the worst time of the year to do so, only to eat ourselves stupid on Turkey Day, then do all the travelling in reverse. Well, this year yours truly is putting a stop to the madness. That's right, kids. I'm not tr...
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From the Sidelines
      DOLPHINS TAKE MEET ATWILLY'S EAST Nantucket Dolphins swim team results for Sunday, Nov. 18 at Willy's East Final - Nantucket 418, WEST 335 Beau Garufitied a team record with a second place finish in the 15 and Over Boys 100 yard IM with a final time of 1:00.62. Garufitook first in the 5...
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BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
AN 'OWLY' SORT OF OWL
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      It sat 25 feet up in a fir tree, very close to the trunk. From up there it could look over to Comstock Avenue and beyond that, to Manley Field House, where the Syracuse Orangemen played basketball back in the 1970s. As a grad student at S.U., I was in Oakwood Cemetery, taking a shortcut home from ...
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Clubbers persevere over Vineyard with 6-0 win
BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT SPORTS EDITOR
      With a gritty and determined effort, the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club junior high team scored a late fourth quarter touchdown and cemented the victory with a pass interception to win Saturday's preliminary game at Martha's Vineyard, 6-0.
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