SMALL NEWS IS BIG NEWS
By Ray Gallagher
Fifty-Two Years, 7 Sectional Titles, 360 Wins Later, Coach D Calls it a Career By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Thanks Coach, D! Thank you, Tony DeMatteo, for 52 years of football grandeur, for two state titles at Roosevelt
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In a sea of great white sharks on the Yorktown High and Syracuse University lacrosse fields, Rob Kavovit was the killer whale, the guy making the most majestic splash without the hype and hoopla. A two-time All-American attackman at Yorktown
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High-Risk Sports Green-Lit by Cuomo, Student Athletes Await Local Decisions All any professional ever wants to do is give an honest day’s work and, in the end, go out on their own, dignified terms. Twenty-five years tenured, after feeling slighted
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#Time2Advocate Gaining Steam on NYS Sports Circuit For a variety of reasons, lacrosse is more like family than most sports, so make no mistake: Laxers are there for each other, especially when the chips are down. There is genetic royalty
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays The buzz word being used by Section 1 football coaches during the 2021 spring phase of the coronavirus pandemic is “Advocate”. Mahopac High football Coach Dominick DeMatteo has been a strong proponent of
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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays It was an unconscionable year, a year most of us would rather put in the rear-view mirror and never see again. That said, our local athletes lifted the lid on some of the
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What I wouldn’t give to be at a high school basketball game right now in any gym in Section 1, or up at the Brewster Ice Arena. And what I wouldn’t give for NYS Gov. Merry-Andrew Cuomo to make an
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The hits just keep coming… one after another, after another, and they have been devastating on a local, national and global scale on account of this ceaseless coronavirus pandemic. This 2020 can’t end quick enough; for student athletes, their parents,
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So it was over 30 years ago when, as a budding cub reporter (Ha!) at the now defunct North County News, I coined the acronym A.B.G., which stood for #AnybodyButGreeley (pre hashtags), which I now regret due to my malfeasance
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The Section 1 fall sports campaign, which is set to open up on Oct. 10, is going to be a chilly 33- to 34-day run for the initial league titles before climaxing with a frosty two-week run for the sectional
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