SMALL NEWS IS BIG NEWS
By Ray Gallagher
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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By Ray Gallagher Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Okay, so I got enough emails and texts last week to confirm that I might have ticked off some local baseball coaches/parents for some of the sweeping “generalizations” I might have made before
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By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays Folks in our neck of the woods have no idea how fortunate they are to have people like Lakeland educators/coaches Sharon Sarsen and Tim Hourahan providing a summer outlet for field hockey preps
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Huskers Beck, Embury, Andrews Named, Six Other Locals Make Grade By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays The mythical Yorktown High School boys’ lacrosse program has been under some scrutiny since the Cornhuskers lost their third-straight Section 1 title game
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The 2020-21 school years were unlike anything we’ve ever witnessed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic: Disheartening on so many levels. But our student athletes, coaches, administrators, officials and everybody associated with prep sports deserves a tip of the cap, a
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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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