Banners which read “We Love Our Seniors” and “Good Luck Seniors” decorated the fence of Yorktown’s softball field Wednesday night, as the Huskers’ slew of significant seniors gathered for the annual Senior Day festivities. Fitting for the occasion, because every… Continue Reading
His fingers were so frozen by the biting-cold, Johnny van de Veerdonk had trouble gripping his stick at times. In the end it wouldn’t matter. With the relentless rain, the drenched field at Putnam Valley High, and the slip-and-slide conditions,… Continue Reading
Assessing the Class A lacrosse landscape is a daunting task these days, one that’s open to more debate than a hipster-laden liberal law house when the conservatives come calling. A selefect few have pole vaulted into the Section’s upper-crust in… Continue Reading
With all the whispers of wonder about freshly-acquired St. John’s coach Steve Lavin’s ability to alter the perception of the ailing program, the primary concern is how Lavin will surface as a local presence. How can the West Coaster stamp… Continue Reading
Four years ago, I was getting my local scribe teeth cut at the Rivertowns Enterprise–a quad-village weekly and local presence out of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.– when I first met Billy Starr. Billy was still a high school kid, working afternoons… Continue Reading
The Exceptional Seniors All Star Game is a grand opportunity to get the competitive juices flowing, with and against some of Section I’s elite, for one final game on the high school level. In additon to being a battle between… Continue Reading
Port Chester, N.Y.–Jabarie Hinds electrified the crowd that crawled into the smurf-small gym at Our Lady of Mercy, exploding for a pair of one-handed dunks and showcasing his prodigious vertical leap. The 5-foot-11 southpaw, a highly-touted recruit, made some crucial… Continue Reading
In his final season of high school basketball, Horace Greeley’s Adam Honig went from key contributor to three-point assailant. His emergence as a sniper ran parallel with Greeley’s ascent to the Westchester County’s upper crust. A 6-foot-1 off guard, the… Continue Reading
It’s going to be an accurate depiction of “how the other half lives” tomorrow night, when Cornell looks to prolong the best NCAA tournament run by an Ivy League team since Tony Price-led Penn earned a berth in the 1979… Continue Reading
It’s a wild day to be a Seton Hall fan. The media circus is headed towards the New Jersey-based University, where the controversy continues. It started with Herb Pope twice delivering a between-the-legs cheapshot and getting ejected. It quickly followed… Continue Reading