Bill Koch
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Sports, Providence Journal. College hoops, high schools, Red Sox, more. @BU_Tweets grad. Kappa Sigma. Two-time Jerome winner. Aspiring best uncle in the world.
Warwick, Rhode Island
Joined January 2013
There were chances for @Bryantwbball to put it away early Thursday. The Bulldogs couldn't take advantage. That left an opening for UMBC, and the Retrievers capitalized over the final couple possessions. They stole an America East road win in Smithfield.
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The Red Sox are one of the most powerful brands in American sport. They've been transformed into underdogs by an owner content with a midtier payroll and a chief baseball officer who is risk averse. John Henry and Chaim Bloom are making this team smaller. It's disappointing.
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Arte Moreno doesn't deserve Mike Trout. What an embarrassment. The Diamondbacks ($238M to $1.32B), Reds ($270M to $1.085B) and Tigers ($82M to $1.26B) have appreciated by a combined $3.075B since their last sales. But tell us again how #MLB ownership isn't profitable.
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Kim English on atmosphere -- 'I went all in. We had a big-time recruit (2025 F Bryson Tiller) here. I told his family – and they’ve been to Indiana. They’ve been to Kansas. I told them, ‘It will be like nothing you’ve ever seen.’ . 'And it was. After the game they agreed.' #pcbb.
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Periodic reminder the Yankees are paying Adam Ottavino $850K to pitch for the #RedSox this season. Inconceivable with a Steinbrenner still the majority owner. The Boss is haunting some dreams at the moment.
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Rick Pitino on Kim English -- 'The guy who coached against me tonight is absolutely fabulous. Fabulous. His team plays like they haven't eaten in a week.' #pcbb.
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Ownership and the front office quit on the #RedSox before the 2020 season. We all saw the results. They waited until 104 games into this 2021 season to do the same. It now feels eerily familiar. Alex Cora and his players were abandoned. Any good will Boston fostered is eroding.
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Elizabeth Beisel has made it to Block Island. Her mother, Joan, was waiting with a hug.
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Buffalo players are diving out of bounds for loose balls with a 19-point lead at home and 90 seconds left. That's championship-level effort and determination. Nate Oats should be a National Coach of the Year candidate.
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Bryant coach Jared Grasso was asked about this postgame: 'Am I supposed to give an honest reaction? Let me give an honest reaction -- we gave them five opportunities to cancel the game. They wanted to play it. We asked to move the date five times. We felt the same way.' (1/x).
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Providence student section: . 'F*** Ed Cooley.' .'Where's your mistress?' . We're barely two minutes in. It's visceral. #pcbb.
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Providence coach Kim English on his night watching Devin Carter be selected 13th overall by the Sacramento Kings. #pcbb
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Rays in 2012 -- $63.6M payroll Opening Day (per Cot's), $323M franchise value (per Forbes). Rays in 2021 -- $66.7M payroll Opening Day, $1.055B franchise value. Payroll increase -- $3.1M.Franchise value increase -- $732M. MLBPA and player reps should be talking about this hourly.
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Alex Cora will miss part of the weekend series with Miami. #RedSox manager tells @OMFonWEEI he's going home to Puerto Rico. His daughter, Camila, is graduating from high school. Bench coach Will Venable is next in line and will be in charge.
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Providence athletic department official told me they couldn't remember another game with more credential requests from NBA scouts/executives. Egor Demin signed a six-year contract with Real Madrid when he was 15. Five-star recruiting prospect and projected lottery pick in 2025.
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Devin Carter and Providence coach Kim English are together on the Barclays Center floor. That's the green room tonight. #pcbb
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First Maddie Potts, now Gianna Cirella. Truly a tragic fall in Rhode Island. No families, friends, communities should have to endure this.
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Providence 72, Creighton 51. The Friars are Big East champions for the first time. It's done. Ed Cooley has done it in his hometown. Legend status certified. #pcbb.
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Kelvin Odih has committed to @WVUhoops. Selected the Mountaineers ahead of Louisville and Rutgers. Former @LSAathletics standout and Providence native. He's a four-star 2025 prospect.
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Kim English finishes his remarks to the crowd. Providence's student section picks it up from there:. 'F**k Ed Cooley' was the chant. #pcbb.
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John Henry is at Fenway Park rooting against the team that arrived wearing vintage Boston Red Sox uniforms. Yet another footnote in a growing period of staining what should be an unimpeachable legacy here.
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Devin Carter walks off to MVP chants from the students. He's firmly in the Big East Player of the Year discussion. #pcbb
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#RedSox announce they will honor Nathan Eovaldi prior to Friday's home game against the Orioles. He's the club's nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, which honors sportsmanship and community involvement.
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Ed Cooley is a @NaismithTrophy Coach of the Year finalist. He's already taken the Big East version -- first Providence coach to win. That's added to 300 career wins, 200 Friars wins, 100 league wins and a Sweet 16. Quite a year. #pcbb #MarchMadness .
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The #RedSox starting at $168M with Rafael Devers now looks worse. And that's after they bungled the Mookie Betts extension discussions. Boston couldn't be more irrelevant right now in terms of MLB at large, and its largely thanks to its own front office. They're floundering.
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Providence is defying modern college basketball trends. The Friars retained key players and added from the outside despite losing Ed Cooley to Georgetown. This isn't a rebuild for Kim English. The Friars should be primed to contend in 2023-24. #pcbb .
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The Pirates were last sold for roughly $90M in 1996. Forbes valued them at $1.32B in March. Don't ever allow ownership to control this narrative. They're not losing money. They just want to protect/continually grow profit margins. Bob Nutting is defrauding his fans.
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Kim English -- 'Thank you to Ticket and Josh, and mostly likely, Devin, for all they gave us.' #pcbb.
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As first pitches go, fine efforts here from Erin Batth and Kim English. I'll say two strikes -- one from a surprise lefty, one from atop the mound. @PCAthletics #pcbb
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Bryson Tiller behind the Providence bench. Oswin Erhunmwunse -- 2025 C commit to the Friars -- also here today. #pcbb
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News from @ProvidenceCol -- Ed Cooley will serve as an honorary chair for a capital campaign to build an Arts and Athletic Center at Community Preparatory School. That's an independent school for grades 4 through 8 on Prairie Avenue -- south side. Cooley grew up there. #pcbb.
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No #URI-UMass for me tonight. Celebrating my brother and new sister on a beautiful day in Newport. This upcoming speech feels like two big free throws.
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Rumor had it there were no student busses running from campus this morning. Providence undergrads found a way here regardless. #pcbb
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Joe Mazzulla's late father, Dan, would have celebrated his 65th birthday today. His son leads the Celtics against the Heat tonight in a bid to make NBA history. Boston could become the first team to erase a 3-0 deficit and win a playoff series. It feels written in the stars.
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Rafael Devers can never be allowed to play for another franchise. Offer what he's worth, not what you think he might accept. Extend him this offseason. Nothing is more important. #RedSox.
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Anthony Carter and Devin Carter. Father went undrafted and grinded through a long NBA career. Son will travel a different path. #pcbb
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Ed Cooley has been named the @NaismithTrophy National Coach of the Year. Providence's leader adds this to his Big East Coach of the Year honors. First men's coach from the Friars to earn both of those awards. This caps a banner 2021-22 campaign for Cooley and his program. #pcbb.
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Providence is now 10-0 in games decided by single digits this season -- 7-0 in games decided by 5 points or less. Ed Cooley is the current Big East Coach of the Year. Don't think it's all that close otherwise. #pcbb.
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The original Big East took five years to win a #NationalChampionship . The new Big East took just three. Somewhere, Dave Gavitt smiles.
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Among the Providence staff -- former guard Kyron Cartwright. He's expected to join the Friars officially as a special assistant to Ed Cooley. Cartwright replaces LaDontae Henton, who was promoted to associate director of player development, scouting and recruiting. #pcbb.
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Congrats, #Patriots. You just extended a QB who is 7-7 with 28 TDs and 19 INTs in his last 14 playoff games. Is Tom Brady really worth it?.
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Kim English on @The_AMPPVD today -- 'It’s the best I’ve ever seen. It was elite.'. 'It was electric.'. 'This place is amazing. You think for a second it’s not – you can’t ever understate how important home court is.' #pcbb.
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Devin Carter also returning to Providence for the 2023-24 season. He joins Bryce Hopkins -- they both announced at noon. The Friars will be a factor again in the Big East standings. They could realistically hold NCAA Tournament expectations in Kim English's debut. #pcbb.
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Donovan Santoro reaffirms his commitment to Providence. Kim English is officially on the board with the Friars. #pcbb.
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This is the 29th 20-win season all-time for Providence. Friars clinched it on Feb. 6. It's still a full month until the Big East Tournament. Tough times for the 'Ed Cooley can't coach' crowd. They're awful quiet these days. #pcbb.
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We have a 'F*** Ed Cooley chant' from the Providence students with 7:00 left. This will be the local college hoop version of 'Yankees Suck' for a while. Steve Napolillo was immediately trying to wave it down from his spot in the tunnel behind the Friars bench. #pcbb.
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This was the night that should silence the doubters. Providence's team this season, coach Ed Cooley, their place in the Sweet 16 next weekend -- there's nothing more to critique about any of it. #pcbb #MarchMadness
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If not for Bob Gibson, the #RedSox would have ended The Curse in 1967. He was absolutely brilliant over Games 1, 4 and 7 of that World Series -- 3-0, 3 CG, 1.00 ERA, 27 IP, 14 H, 5 BB, 26 K. One of the all-time greats. May he rest in peace.
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Lt. Thomas J. Koch, Pawtucket fire department. So proud of this guy. All you want as an older sibling is to have any younger ones be better than you. Husband, father, first responder, example in the community -- a success across the board. Long may it continue.
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Pregame moment of silence here for Bill Reynolds, @BrownU_MBB alum and my former colleague @projo. You are missed, Bunky. #pcbb
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Regarding that last tweet from Kim English -- transfer portal closes tomorrow. Fans and media aren't the only ones on edge. Coaches, predictably, more so -- their jobs/professional futures are at stake. This current state of college sports is unenjoyable and untenable. #pcbb.
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Kyrgios is an anarchist on the court. Tsitsipas has absolutely no idea what to do with him. He's melting down mentally. This is fabulous theater. Somewhere deep inside McEnroe has to be loving it.
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Ed Cooley coached his last home game in his first Georgetown season Tuesday. It was filled with Providence fans. His reality with the Hoyas? A move that was made for personal reasons has been professionally painful. The Friars added to that misery. #pcbb.
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David Duke in his NBA debut tonight -- nine points (4-9 FG), three rebounds, one assist, +2 in 22 minutes. Nets lost at the Rockets, 114-04. First action with Brooklyn for the former @PCFriarsmbb and @ClassicalHSPVD star since the preseason in October. #pcbb.
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This graphic from @notthefakeSVP tonight is absolutely bonkers. Tyler Kolek, Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson. A kid from Cumberland with arguably the two greatest point guards of all time.
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That we're even discussing Providence's chances to reach the NCAA Tournament after playing 20 games without Bryce Hopkins is worth noting. The Friars fought. Devin Carter became a star. Kim English offered strong hope for his program's future. #pcbb .
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Bryce Hopkins among multiple Providence players waving to the UConn student section while they're booed off the floor late in warmups. I'd say they're rather confident. #pcbb.
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Kim English -- 'Every single person who touches this program is all-in on us – is all-in. It allows me just to coach basketball and build this team. That bleeds into the fans. The fans are behind us at a level I’ve never seen. That’s my favorite part.' #pcbb.
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Big East preseason women's poll (first-place votes).1 UConn (10).2 Creighton (1).3 @ProvidenceWBB (#pcbb).4 St. John's.5 Georgetown.6 Villanova.7 Seton Hall.8 Butler.9 DePaul.10 Marquette.11 Xavier.
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We've got some Providence royalty in the house tonight. John Linehan here as an assistant coach with BYU. One of the most disruptive, threatening perimeter defenders you'll ever see. #pcbb
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Ed Cooley wins his 25th game in 2021-22 -- a new best in his 11 seasons at Providence. Add yet another milestone for the coach. You're watching someone hitting his professional peak. #pcbb.
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Nick Pivetta -- 'I started walking off the field and nobody was following me, so I turned around. He'd called it a ball, which is fine.'. 'I just turned around and said, 'My bad. I thought you said strike.' That's all it was. I don't want to show up an umpire.' #RedSox.
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Kim English -- 'Just a piss poor performance for us. The most embarrassing performance I’ve been a part of since I’ve been in basketball. Obviously it starts with me. I didn’t have our guys prepared to compete at the level which is needed to win the game at this juncture.' #pcbb.
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Rafael Castro out of class and here in time for Kim English. Also spotted Ed Croswell, Noah Locke up in the gallery. #pcbb.
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Devin Carter -- 'First time for me and a few of my teammates. We can't wait.' . 'We'll have a good scouting report on them.' #pcbb.
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Mookie Betts on Dave Dombrowski and how this affects future contract discussions -- 'This is proof that this is a business. Like I said, I love it here. But this is still a business.' #RedSox.
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Garrett Whitlock warming and looks to have the 9th. Dan Le Batard once said Jimmy Johnson coached football at Miami with his middle fingers extended. Alex Cora, a proud Hurricane himself, would be doing the same by closing this one with the Yankees Rule 5 pick. #RedSox.
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Per source, prospects at Providence's Late Night Madness (1/2):.- 2024 F Amdy Ndiaye.- 2025 PG Nigel James.- 2025 SG Joson Sanon.- 2025 SF Jaylen Harrell.- 2025 C Oswin Erhunmwunse.- 2025 C Amadou Doumbia.#pcbb.
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Providence has received a commitment from 2021 PF Rafael Castro. New Jersey native selected the Friars from a final three that also included Miami and Dayton. Castro claimed other offers from Xavier, Florida, VCU, Seton Hall and more. #pcbb.
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I don't have the words. Kevin is the perfect teammate. His work speaks for itself. The person behind the scenes -- unselfish, supportive, a willing co-conspirator after hours -- is even better. He will be sorely, sorely missed.
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#URI students in line @TheRyanCenter to pick up wrist bands at 6 am for tonight's game against Davidson. #Rams will take the floor against the Wildcats as the No. 18 team in the country, their highest ranking in program history.
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Oswin Erhunmwunse has committed to Providence. Friars are on the board with a four-star 2025 C. Creighton, Oklahoma, Georgia Tech were his other finalists. Decision was made on a live stream with @AdamFinkelstein. #pcbb.
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Providence has received a commitment from 2025 prospect Jamier Jones. Consensus top-35 player. Florida native selected the Friars ahead of Ohio State, Houston, South Carolina, LSU and Kansas. Third top-50 pledge for Kim English (Garwey Dual, Oswin Erhunmwunse). #pcbb.
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