Amare Stoudemire awoke from a dream, one he never remembered leaving. Before wiping the crust webbed outside his eyeballs, the tranquil sound of crickets pervaded his room. He surveyed the scene outside. Suddenly, there were no mid-town yellow cabs whipping… Continue Reading
Arun Basuljevic has been fortunate to circumvent the snowfall that’s pelted the region. Basuljevic, a freshly-minted All-American who got his playmaking teeth cut in Mahopac, is greeted each morning by the scalding sun in Sarasota, Fla. He could be shoveling… Continue Reading
DeMario Anderson sported the number 0, an ode to Gilbert Arenas, the furious-scoring DC legend. A major facilitator who sparked Quinnipiac’s transition from lowly, underachieving Northeast Conference squad to a now-MAAC program, the program is indebted to him. Retiring… Continue Reading
Matt Scott arrived at Brooklyn Law and Tech as a pin drop-quiet, unassuming freshman. He was bone-thin, his long arms resembling two stickball bats. Scott’s upper body seemed slender enough to make Tayshawn Prince or Quincy Douby look… Continue Reading
It was projected to be a marquee borough battle, a titillating and heated showdown with supreme, Kings Of New York bragging rights implicated. It wasn’t. The heavy projections and brash pre-season bravado emerged over the summer, when the Brooklyn Nets… Continue Reading
Historically and annually, Mahopac and Carmel have been blood rivals in everything from hoops to football to soccer to track to golf to water polo. …Every time the intense cross-town blood feud is renewed ..the ceaseless trash talk, animal spirit, jam-packed… Continue Reading
Brandon Krise and Mike Felton have been tossing the pigskin around since they were freshmen. In the backyard of each other’s homes, from the top of the driveway to the other side of the street, they’ve been pegging each other… Continue Reading
Flanked by his mother Joy, and his father, Lou, Mike DeMello’s mind was finally at ease. This was last Friday night, inside the calming confines of Campagna Italian Restaurant in Shrub Oak. The wall of pressure, natural… Continue Reading
Knicks without the rim-protecting, shot-blocking menace who is Tyson Chandler are as vulnerable as New York City without a crime-stopping presence. Chew on that for a second. New York rapidly became the safest city per capita, post-9/11. Look at how dismal and… Continue Reading
When I learned that Ken Donnelly accepted a football coaching position At Rye Country Day, I think I might have flinched just a tad bit. The lacrosse guy?!?! The one who… Continue Reading