In 40 years of strategical thinking, Alan Amron’s creative juices have resulted in various American inventions. His original contribution to the world occurred in 1973, when the Brooklyn-born Amron discovered Press-on Memo. It is known today… Continue Reading
Two people in particular have helped shape Jay Marchese’s soccer life. Chris Marchese, an absolute gym rat of an older brother, would be the first.The second? A young coach hell-bent on enforcing a year-round, 24/7 soccer program at tiny Haldane.… Continue Reading
Last season as a freshman, Johnny Denis earned his chops on Lakeland’s varsity. Thrust into meaningful minutes, the youngster surfaced as an innate playmaker with a knack for drawing in the defense feeding forwards. During the pre-season, however, Lakeland coach… Continue Reading
Lance Stephenson was supposed to alter the perception of a then-ailing St. John’s program. The 6-foot-6 man-child was supposed to bring back a prosperous Johnnies era, when Chris Mullin shot the Garden into a power outage and Walter “The Truth” Berry… Continue Reading
Basketball has taken Dave Boykin well beyond his White Plains roots. The former Tigers guard, who starred at Division-II Bridgeport as an innate point guard with a patented cock-back jumper, is prolonging an over-the-waters career in China. One year… Continue Reading
Is Ian Baker his brother’s keeper? I’m not for certain, but what I do know is… The 6-foot guard is the youngest in a Washington, D.C.-bred clan of brotherly ballers. Baker possesses the playmaking ability and enough DMV pressure-steering grit… Continue Reading
At around 10:30 Saturday night, New Rochelle Quarterback Nas Sinkfield-Shelton was alerted by constant chirping from his cell phone. Within minutes, the 5-foot-10, 170-pound dual threat was thumbing through a barrage of motivational text messages. All texts were from the same… Continue Reading
Leave John alone. Seriously. The fake outrage, the heavy scrutiny, the sudden lightning rod image the mainstream media has created for him—it’s a bit much. I can only hear about his ‘taunting’ of Rice players so… Continue Reading
We live in a country today, where a high-profile player’s recruiting process becomes a six-month documentary complete with rising action and a climax. The college basketball websites, the bloggers, the recruiting gurus, the “friends of the program” are all tuned… Continue Reading
The Brooklyn Law and Tech Jets aren’t the toast of Gotham. Far from it. They lack the same fanfare, lofty expectations, the same hype and hyperbole as traditional Brooklyn breeding grounds such as Lincoln, Boys & Girls,… Continue Reading