By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays
In the United Kingdom and Ireland they call the Big Dipper the Plough, the large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major. In Section 1 soccer we call Fordham-bound Somers soccer star Daniel D’Ippolito the Big Dipper
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It was yet another year of mayhem in the United States of America, where she’s still the greatest country on Earth while quickly morphing into an unrecognizable state of divisiveness #PleaseComeTogether. The great
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Brewster Bounds Farthest in Inaugural Girls’ Flag Football Campaign By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Like most pilot programs, Section 1 wasn’t certain the notion of girls’ flag football would get off the cutting room floor when the inaugural
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Local Communities Treated Beyond Expectations By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Host Yorktown High School, like it often has, outdid itself in last weekend’s Section 1 basketball championships where portions of Dutchess, Rockland, Putnam and Westchester counties were exposed
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays We’ve all seen it on the news. Everybody with a platform is pushing renewed COVID-19 fears and concerns with the recent statewide spikes, and rightly so, to a certain extent, because it’s real,
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If you haven’t noticed, there’s been a trickle-down effect to all the wicked divisiveness within our country these days. Even our kids are feeling it. Folks everywhere, it seems, are just hating on one another, and the in-fighting is out
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor, @Directrays Ever since I was five, sports has always been a great unifier, something that brought my dad and I together… even during those tough early years I thought we’d never survive #LoveYouPop. When
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays So, it looks like local school districts are going to let our kids play ball – at least for now. A week after rendering some distressing guidance regarding COVID-19 and the Delta variant
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Let’s Hope Section 1 Admins Back our Student-Athletes By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There were so many things about high school, Lakeland High, in particular, that were so cool back in the day, yet there were some things
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays There were screams of joy and moans of agony coming from every direction. Angst, euphoria and intensity filled the air in and around Rogers Park in Danbury where more than 80 teams, from
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