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URI Fullback Joe Casey Finished

URI fullback Joe Casey will miss the last three games of the football season as a result of a shoulder injury he suffered late in the third quarter of the Rams' 49-36 loss at New Hampshire last Saturday. Casey injured the same shoulder last year but played in all 11 games and had surgery after the season. Coach Tim Stowers said today that Casey will probably have surgery again.
"It's a severe loss to the team," Stowers said.
Casey, a junior and two-time first-team all-conference fullback, is seventh in the Colonial Athletic Association in rushing this season with 782 yards. He has scored two touchdowns. He ran 23 times for 105 yards against UNH before leaving the game with 1:14 remaining in the third quarter and the Wildcats leading, 28-24.
Casey has rushed for 2,901 yards in his career, tied for fourth with former quarterback Jayson Davis on URI's career rushing list. He is 488 yards shy of Pat Abbruzzi's record of 3,389 yards gained between 1951 and 1954.
URI, 1-7, will play 7-1 and third-ranked Massachusetts Saturday at Meade Stadium, travel to Maine next week and close the season Nov. 17 at home against Northeastern.

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Watch the Sox parade here / photo

Journal photo / Bill Murphy
Nevermind the weather, Bostonians are hot for the Sox, who will march through town in about an hour.

Wish you could be in Boston to see the Red Sox' World Series victory parade?

We've got the next-best thing: live, streaming video of the noontime rally that will start at Fenway Park and will travel through Back Bay to the Commons and end at City Hall Plaza.

Our media partner, WPRI-TV in Providence, is providing the live feed via Fox. The link will be posted on our homepage closer to the start of the rally.

The “rolling rally” on World War II-era amphibious duck boats will take the same route as the 2004 championship parade, except they won’t go into the Charles River, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said.

Menino said pitcher Jonathan Papelbon will dance, and the Dropkick Murphys also will play along the parade route.

“He has to do a dance,” Menino said. “He promised the people he would do a dance.”

The Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies Sunday night with a 4-3 win in Denver.

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