Suspended Mahopac Hoops Player Hires Noted Civil Rights Attorney Well, I hope I’m not blowing this out of proportion, but it is my job to report the local sports and inject some opinion in this here section of the Examiner,
Read MoreWhat Happened to Innocent Until Proven Guilty? So the bigwigs who have been investigating the matter regarding a white Mahopac player’s alleged racial slur toward a black Carmel player on Jan. 7th turned out in force last Friday for the
Read MoreLast Friday was the kind of day local hoops aficionados dream about, hopping from gym to gym seeking thrill and what not. It started at Mahopac where the win-starved Indians were hell-bent on beating their arch rivals from Carmel, complete
Read MoreYou could sense the collective sigh of relief from the four corners of northeast Putnam County; Kent, Carmel, Lake Carmel and Patterson when the Carmel Rams ended three years of misery, and then some, with a 57-50 double-overtime defeat of
Read MoreThey gathered at Kennedy Catholic a couple of weeks ago to celebrate the 10-year reunion of one of the greatest basketball teams this scribe has ever covered in a quarter century on the northern tier of the Section 1 hoops
Read MoreHad he busted off one more big gainer, YORKTOWN junior Nick Santavicca would have broken John Fennessy’s school record of 364 rushing yards. Instead, the horse that Yorktown rode to its 32-21 victory over host Horace Greeley last Thursday, settled
Read MoreWhen former NYS Football Coach of the Year Ron Santavicca left Yorktown High for a second time in 2004 there were some hurt feelings. Breakups are never easy, so parting ways can get a little messy. Besides some hurt feelings
Read MoreJohn Jay CR vs. Somers was everything we billed it to be, perhaps Section 1’s finest Class A regular season game of the 2014 campaign; complete with a 26-21 come-from-behind win by the host Tuskers before a capacity crowd on
Read MoreKarma can be a heck of a thing to battle. Lou Cilento, owner of Ciro’s Restaurant & Lounge, gets that. Of the scores of owners to have occupied the 115 Secor Rd. address in Mahopac, few have achieved the necessary
Read MoreEven the most avid exercise enthusiast dislikes heat and humidity. It is the one thing that can turn a miler into a couch potato. Heat and humidity are perhaps the two elements that, when combined, factor into the most skipped
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