East Coast Drive Athletics shifts into high gear Nothing ventured, nothing gained. This idiom might well be applied to 28-year-old sports entrepreneur Natalie Traina, who was a standout in softball at North Rockland High School, then in college and finally one summer in Italy playing for AIST or American International Softball Team. While playing, Traina […]
BY JOE RINI For third baseman David Wright, captain of the New York Mets, there will always be demands on his time beyond playing the game. Whether it’s signing autographs during batting practice for young fans whose faces are lit with excitement when they see him or standing before a throng of reporters after a […]
BY BRANDON GUBITOSA John Starks was back in Rockland County this week as Cablevision’s Optimum and Madison Square Garden teamed up for the eighth annual Knicks Summer reading event at the Bronx House Day Camp in Pearl River. Former Knicks all-star Starks and New York State Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj were in attendance as they […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Kivlehan, Prosciaworking their way closer to Big Leagues A star in the making — perhaps two — are Rockland County baseball standouts Pat Kivlehan of West Nyack and Steven Proscia of Suffern Kivlehan, a former two-sport standout at Rutgers University who is playing in the Seattle Mariners organization, is reportedly […]
By Vincent Abbatecola Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been getting more exciting with each new film. Although it began with the disappointing “Iron Man 3,” it got better with the okay, but still entertaining “Thor: The Dark World,” which was then followed by the outright thrilling “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” We […]
Status quo at the trade deadline BY JOE RINI Journeying at the outskirts of the wildcard race, are the Mets 2014 playoff hopes an alluring, attainable oasis in the distance or a tantalizing, yet hopeless mirage? As the Mets seek to end eight years deserted of playoff baseball, perhaps the current road trip against the […]