UAlbany has launched the Great Danes Summer League, an off-season league for youngsters who aren't on travel teams (i.e. Albany City Rocks). Danes players are serving as referees for the short season league.
UAlbany players are also handling game stats and other duties, such as operating the scoreboard. How cool is that?
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Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin has an idea for Bruno Stadium.
He wants to build a retractable roof to be used during the off-season. Well, how 'bout during the season, too, when it rains?
McLaughlin should also remember that the reason the Tampa Bay Rays are using the Yankees' spring training field in Tampa is because Tropicana Park lost its roof during a hurricane last year. Let's say there's another heavy snowstorm like the one in March 2024. I don't think the roof survives a major snowstorm of that magnitude.
In other Valleycats news, the team will honor two sport icon and current Colorado University football coach Deion Sanders with a bobblehead figure prior to Wednesday's game vs. the NY Boulders. The first 1000 fans get a bobblehead. It just happens to be a coincidence that this news comes out after it was reported Monday that Sanders, also a pitchman for AFLAC insurance, among other sponsors, had his bladder removed due to cancer. He's now cancer free, and will return to the Buffaloes' sidelines in September.
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In 2017, the city of Glens Falls sold the naming rights to their downtown sports arena to Cool Insuring Agency.
In 2025, the arena's rights have moved to one of the 518's most prominent law firms, Harding Mazzotti.
Come October, when the Adirondack Thunder begin a new season in the ECHL, the building will be known as Harding Mazzotti Arena. The rights deal is for 5 seasons (2025-30).
Given the firm's equally prominent presence in television & radio ads, how 'bout getting the Thunder a regional television deal?
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