By Ray Gallagher, Examiner Sports Editor @Directrays
Mahopac Nation Turns its Eyes to DeMatteo; Lodewick to Serve as Peekskill A.D. Mahopac High crafted a multi-generation-shaping move last Thursday when its Superintendent Dr. Dennis Creedon anointed Dominick DeMatteo as P.E. teacher and leader of its football program, and
Read MoreI’ve known Hen Hud baseball Coach Dutch Pritts so long I feel as though I went to high school with him, though the Dutchman was a generation before me. But when I first burst on to the Section 1 baseball
Read MoreThere is plenty to be admired about Yorktown’s terrific basketball season: A league title, 17 wins, a run to the Westchester County Center Final 4 and a lifetime of memories for Coach Kevin Downes’ seventh-seeded Huskers. But perhaps bigger than
Read MoreThe 2015 football season did not produce a single champion or even a championship-caliber outfit last fall, as the locals from the Northern Westchester/Putnam Examiner regions were shut out in their bids to be crowned or even compete for a
Read MoreSo the rich just got a little richer last week when four-time reigning NYS Class AA girls’ basketball champion Ossining High discovered that hoops sensation Andra Espinoza-Hunter transferred back to Ossining after a three-year stint at the Blair Academy in
Read MoreThere are only so many Halls of Fame in this world, and while they keep popping up at street-smart schools across the country they’re still pretty dang tough to gain admittance to; unless of course you’re a coach of the
Read MoreClass B Putnam Valley (2-0), by far the smallest school in the Carolyn Conroy Memorial Tournament at Lakeland High last weekend, conquered a pair of Class AA schools – Horace Greeley and runner-up Carmel — to waltz off with the
Read MoreNo.4 Brewster to Host No.5 Yorktown in Juicy Quarterfinal No.9 Hen Hud Shocks Nyack, No.6 Somers Crushes No.11 Byram, Both Advance Quarterfinal Friday is upon us, and the matchups are both juicy and intriguing; starting with No.5 Yorktown and No.4 Brewster
Read MoreThe wait is over, two-a-days are done, the dog-days sweat and the grueling roast of summer sessions will moderate some in the coming days, but the heat is on for Section 1 football teams, as the season opens this Friday
Read MoreJalay Knowles Never Settled for Good, She was Great – There’s Beyoncé and there’s Madonna and Cher… the one-named divas that have acquired status for their tributes to society via the genre of music. There’s Mother Theresa on an island unto
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