SPORTS
Cinderella soccer tale of how Lady Ram goalie Megan Sical won D-1 scholarship to St. John’s
It sounds so simple, so matter of fact, so cut and dry, and yet the sentence condenses a young lifetime of striving, yearning and reaching across generations. It is all summed up in a single sentence that says it all without spelling out all the living and all the lives …
Hoop-D-Do: Rye's D-guru Dennis Hurlie is new Lady Trojans’ basketball mentor
The Blind Brook Lady Trojan basketball players got game. What they didn't have was a coach. Veteran hoops mentor Dennis Hurlie has an extensive coaching pedigree. What he didn't have was a team to coach.
Trojans’ winter track team is ready to run outdoors
The Blind Brook Trojans’ winter track season has officially begun with team practices and conditioning. Even though winter track is a non-contact, low-risk sport, new rules have been put into place to help make it safe for the participants during the pandemic.
High-risk sports now up to County health department
It sounded so simple, so straightforward, so eagerly awaited because the first sentence of an upbeat announcement gave the scholastic sports season a long-awaited green light to start so-called high-risk sports.
Low-risk sports such as Track & Field, bowling & swimming get green light
As you may have heard tens of thousands of times before, life is unfair—but on some days it is fairer than others.
Escobar training on his own as a 3-sport athlete working to get back in the game, virus permitting
It is the story that is part of the ever-evolving Escobar family lore—the story about two scared kids hopping aboard a train as it slowed down at their whistle stop on its way out of El Salvador.
Uncle Danny, Port Chester's unsung 'Danny D' is local behind-the-scenes sports go-to guy
They call him Uncle Danny, also known as Danny D.
Rams’ wrestling ace Nick Bolanos keeps working out, his eye on making third straight All-Section team
Port Chester was dealt two aces. They were quite a wrestling pair. But then the deck got shuffled, time ran out, the rules of play changed.
Only two varsity teams to participate in Blind Brook’s winter sports season
The start of the New Year signals the arrival of this year’s Blind Brook winter sports season.
Ashley Reyes comes off soccer season for ages
In case Lady Rams’ junior soccer phenom Ashley Reyes needs any extra motivation to improve, it came Dec. 21 when the All-State girls' soccer teams were announced with 16 All-State selections from Section One, and her name wasn’t among them.
Low-risk school sports start date up in the air
No way. Not now. And not anytime soon. Because reports that the low-risk scholastic sports season was supposed to start this past Monday were premature, exaggerated, more wishful thinking than reality, more fantasy than fact. It didn't happen and isn't going to happen for at least two weeks, maybe more, …
The top 20 local sports events of 2020
It doesn't take 2020 vision to see that the year 2020 was the worst in memory with the worst of times wrapped up in the worst kind of headlines that summed it all up nationally: the pandemic, the election, racial injustice and police brutality and global warming. But the year …
Winter high-risk school sports season cancelled, but low- to moderate-risk sports are okay
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through Port Chester, Ram and Lady Ram student-athletes were wondering whether the day would ever come when the play would be the thing.
The Little O has verbally committed to Villanova
It has been an amazing journey for superstar Port Chester High school athlete Madison (Madi) Ostrowski who has already gone a lot further than most 16-year-olds have ever dreamed of. That includes playing softball all over the country.
