Sports columnist Marc Maturo today launches Marc My Words, his official column BY MARC MATURO Diamond gems, young and old, swing away Baseball devotees, step up and take notice: there’s a solid brand of baseball available in the 17-team North Jersey Amateur Baseball League (NJABL), an organization for players 18 and over and which includes […]
BY CHAYIM TAUBER The casual fan could watch the 2013 NBA Finals and appreciate a difference in styles. In the Eastern corner, wearing the red trunks and the red tops, you have the Miami Heat. South Beach. Glitz, glamour, fame, flash, panache. They have the young coach, they have the world’s greatest player, and they […]
Eight Rockland athletes joined the ranks of the immortal at the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame 40th Anniversary Induction Dinner held last most at the Pearl River Elks Club. Before the new entries were honored, Pete Scheibner, chairman of the Sports Hall of Fame, acknowledged the charter members of the Sports Hall of Fame, […]
Internet offers once rare opportunity to see Babe Ruth in feature film just before he became a national hero. Best part: the movie was made locally at Ruth’s old Haverstraw stomping grounds BY JOHN MIRABELLA Special to the Rockland County Times Growing up in Haverstraw, N.Y. I, in fact we, as a town, had heard […]
The College Sports Notebook is compiled by veteran sports writer and columnist Marc Maturo, a lifetime member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA). The notebook will be published every Thursday. Please send items of interest to marcmaturo@aol.com. Purchase College turns to DeLorenzo Lacrosse is lifeblood to Nyack High School alumna Francesca DeLorenzo, who not […]
BY CHAYIM TAUBER John Tortorella is out as head coach of the New York Rangers. Tortorella’s four and a half year reign as head coach of the Rangers ended abruptly Wednesday, a mere four days after their Stanley Cup hopes were ended by the Boston Bruins. The Rangers were thoroughly outplayed throughout the series, narrowly […]