Marc Maturo’s official sports column Half –century doesn’t dim memories of aging batboy       Vietnam veteran Pete Barbieri , a Spring Valley resident since June 1990, sits quietly at a table in the back of a county deli, and turns back the clock, to his days as a batboy at the old Yankee Stadium. Now […]
Houstons, Clintons and friends await hoops showdown The local collegiate basketball season resumes early in the new year with a showdown of sorts on tap in the eighth James Clancy Memorial Basketball Tournament, hosted by Dominican College on January 3-4. Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg is surely to be packed at […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Szerlip, Nyack Wrestling Club linked hand in hand Jeremy Szerlip of Nyack has a passion for wrestling, but in this case it’s not the scripted pro variety but the much purer and brutally competitive scholastic and collegiate versions. Szerlip, who competed on the mats at Nyack High School with his […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column. Leaving no Hall vote unturned: one scribe’s opinion Unlike last year when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) failed to elect anyone into the Hall of Fame in upstate Cooperstown, this year’s balloting is almost certain to produce at least one or two new inductees and perhaps three and […]
BY JAMIE KEMPTON As seasons go, late autumn is not a traditional time of renewal. But for participants in the Bill Markiewicz Memorial Rockland Alumni Cross Country Run, the last Saturday in November is a time to renew old friendships, retrace the footpaths of their youth, and remember what it was like to tackle the […]
BY CHAYIM TAUBER How sad is this? With New York sports in the worst funk it may have ever been in, the team inspiring the most hope amongst its fans and constituents might just be the New York Yankees. The Yankees have made the biggest splash of the offseason (outside of a Prince Fielder trade) […]