About me and the site

ToBra.xyz is a personal take on Boston and Providence sports — from someone who grew up in Southern New England watching a diminutive college quarterback wearing the #22 complete a miracle Hail Mary pass to beat the almighty Miami Hurricanes in 1984, a young hotshot head coach taking Providence to the Final Four in 1987, and a wild Italian kid from Cranston, RI fighting epic boxing matches at the Civic Center.

This isn’t your typical sports blog. It’s not about hot takes or highlight reels. It’s about remembering what sports used to feel like around here — when players weren’t brands, when owners felt like part of the community, and when a team’s success or failure could shape your mood for an entire week.

The passion in this region has always hit differently. Loyalty here isn’t just about rooting for the home team — it’s about the bond between fans, the shared joy and the shared suffering. It’s about how our teams become part of our daily lives – at work, in school, in conversations with strangers at Dunkin’.

Sports doesn’t have the hold on me it once did. Life has a way of swinging an axe at the tree of wonder and naïveté that we nurtured in our youth. But sports is still rooted in me — and I write to keep that tree standing, even if sometimes it feels like it is ready to fall.

That is why you’ll find commentary on the Sox, the Pats, the Celtics, and the local college scene here on my site. And every so often, you might find something that doesn’t quite seem to fit anywhere else — but you might find it is still something worth reading.