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What I wouldn’t give to be at a high school basketball game right now in any gym in Section 1, or up at the Brewster Ice Arena. And what I wouldn’t give for NYS Gov. Merry-Andrew Cuomo to make an

The hits just keep coming… one after another, after another, and they have been devastating on a local, national and global scale on account of this ceaseless coronavirus pandemic. This 2020 can’t end quick enough; for student athletes, their parents,

So it was over 30 years ago when, as a budding cub reporter (Ha!) at the now defunct North County News, I coined the acronym A.B.G., which stood for #AnybodyButGreeley (pre hashtags), which I now regret due to my malfeasance

The Section 1 fall sports campaign, which is set to open up on Oct. 10, is going to be a chilly 33- to 34-day run for the initial league titles before climaxing with a frosty two-week run for the sectional

@Directrays Another week, another postponement within the 11-member New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA). Now, folks in Section 1 are awaiting a Sept. 29 start date for low-risk sports like soccer (as if!), field hockey, cross country

Every time King Cuomo discusses sports and/or athletics, I feel like we’re taking advice from a guy who thinks he can inbound a basketball to himself, a guy that lacks some of the basic instincts regarding competitive sports.  For instance,

David Zaslaw and company really came through when we needed folks to come through for us. Zaslaw’s Greater Hudson Valley Baseball League summer season ran its course last Sunday, providing thousands of kids from 8 to 18 the opportunity of

I cannot imagine a world without high school football, without Friday Night Lights at Somers and Yorktown High, without Putnam County bigwigs Carmel and Mahopac packing the stands, without a Saturday afternoon at Parkway Field on Marble Avenue in Pleasantville.

It is going to take a lot more than a COVID-19 pandemic or dire family illness to stop Yorktown High sophomore Alexandra Scialdone from achieving her goal of playing Division I lacrosse for a major university.  The 5-foot-5, 130-pound attacker

Surely, it was a coincidence, but shortly after my column was published last week state Sen. Peter Harckham (D-Lewisboro) had amended Senate Bill S8708, which originally called for state education law to exclude schools with race-based mascots from receiving some