BY CHAYIM TAUBER The New York Knicks are no fluke. We’re nearly at the half-way point of the season and the New York Knicks are sitting pretty near the top of the Atlantic Conference. No talk of Phil Jackson on this side of the bridge. No more questions about sustainability or if the “old guys […]
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. Pucci “iced” by concussion, plans return This might have been the winter of discontent for […]
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) has made it so that for the first time since 1996, the eighth time in baseball hall of fame history, not a single player received the percentage necessary to be inducted to the hall of fame. Created in 1936, the standards for induction have remained very high. Major […]
Jentzen stays on target at Dominican Senior forward K.C. Jentzen of Pearl River poured in a game-high 17 points, but the Dominican College women’s basketball team was tripped by Southern Connecticut State College, 59-57, to close out the old year at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg. Jentzen, who put the Lady Chargers in front 51-49 […]
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. McManus, Ducey’s Privateers red-hot on the ice Bill Ducey, a displaced Long Islander due to the aftermath […]
BY MARC MATURO Rockland County Times’ sports reporter Marc A. Maturo is a lifetime honorary member of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He was the Mets beat writer for the Gannett Westchester Newspapers from 1978-1985, and every year continues to write in the name of Pete Rose on his Hall of Fame ballot. At […]