SPORTS

The fall season rules of the game as dictated by the pandemic

The blinking roadway sign says it all, or almost all, one line, one thought at a time: PRACTICE STAY SAFE FACE MASK REQUIRED FOR PLAYLAND.

Fall sports season underway despite virus

The wait is over. 

Rams, Lady Rams get the fall sports go-ahead for soccer, tennis & x-country starting Tuesday

It is as easy as saying one-two-three, but those three numbers stand for something a lot harder—the delayed and truncated return to interscholastic sports Tuesday (9/29).

Nationally-ranked Rye Brook masters runner races against the clock as 50th birthday nears

The older you get, the more precious the so-called ember months become. 

Rams’ fall baseball season teams drop 2 of 3 with 'albatrosses' costly in leading to losses

Rams new head baseball coach Sean Burke is still on the right side of 30, which makes him too young to identify with the ancient mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" poetic fame, but Burke's frequent references to his fall baseball team having an albatross around …

Return to varsity sports calls for necessary precautions

Despite the elongated halt of Blind Brook varsity athletics as a result of COVID-19, some fall sports are being given the thumbs up to commence their seasons. 

Low-risk P.C. school sports to begin Sept. 29

It is as rare as a day in June, rarer even because September is almost gone and the first day of autumn is coming up Tuesday (9/22), but nonetheless now is that rarest of times when a scholastic sports story invokes literary names like Shakespeare, Camus, Arthur Miller and James …

Fall baseball Rams lose a deuce to New Ro

Call him Ismael because that is his name. 

The Port Chester link between Moran and Sabato: A stretch from P.C. & UNC to Twins, Pirates & MLB

It ain't necessarily so. Just because the University of North Carolina story says professional baseball player and ex-Tarheel slugging great Colin Moran comes from Port Chester doesn't mean he actually does. 

Roadmap for return to interscholastic sports filled with detours for a late September start

Red light, green light, one, two, three all the way up to 49 pages of stops and go’s, speed bumps and yellow proceed with caution detours along with lots of why’s, how’s and wherefores are contained in the latest "Return to Interscholastic Sports" document released by the New York State …

Latest look at fall school sports season from state, nat’l and local perspective

In case you are wondering what's new on the local school sports scene, the answer is as simple as "elementary, my dear Watson," the speaker being the Upstate modern-day equivalent of the fictional super sleuth Sherlock Holmes talking to his dense, medically-trained associate, although the final word will come from …

All that went into making the impossible 2020 PCYBL virus-delayed season happen

Now that it’s over and there’s time to reflect, it was amazing that the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) summer season ever happened during the coronavirus pandemic that put the world, the nation and just about everything else on pause. 

Rye Brook/Port Chester travel teams finish GHVBL season strong in playoffs

Throughout all the goings-on with the coronavirus wreaking havoc on professional sports, the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) has been playing an exciting game of age-group baseball. 

Jimmy's Jazz edges CYP in extra innings for PCYBL Minor League title at Lyon Park

Going by past age-group baseball performances, the Port Chester Youth Baseball League (PCYBL) Minor League championship game was going to be close between undefeated and once tied Jimmy's Jazz (JJ) and the Catholic Youth Program (CYP) never-say-die team that gave them fits all season long.