Several weeks into the 2016-17 season, the Pleasantville boys’ basketball team had already dropped three of its first seven games and there really wasn’t a growing suspicion the Panthers, despite the presence of one of the area’s most talented players,
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There 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
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By Tony Pinciaro & Ray Gallagher – In what might be the greatest showing in Northern Westchester/Putnam girls’ hoops history, three local teams danced the County Center dance and rode home in championship chariots; including Class AA OSSINING, Class A SOMERS
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By Bill Primavera Perhaps you’ve never thought much about foam rubber as a stuffing for furnishings, but I for one have never cared for it. In fact, I’ve always had a kind of inborn aversion toward foam rubber. I remember
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Last week I reported on the latest trend in wine sales in the United States, the proliferation of offerings of red blends. Winemakers have become alchemists, toiling in their laboratories of vineyard and winery, crafting personal expressions of wines that
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The Briarcliff boys’ basketball team probably can’t play much better than it did over the first five minutes of the second quarter last Wednesday evening. A 17-0 spurt that actually began with Jack Reish’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end the opening
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Grace Lunder sat slumped on a wooden bench just outside the Byram Hills locker room late Friday night, frozen like a statue, with her head buried near her knees. Just minutes earlier, the Bobcats’ standout goalie had dropped face first
Read MoreDave Fernandes walked out of the locker room at Scarsdale High School late Friday afternoon carrying with him more than two decades of memories as the Horace Greeley head basketball coach and a lot of uncertainty about his future. He
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As he stood along the sideline in the final minutes of last Wednesday’s Section 1, Class B quarterfinal playoff game against visiting Westlake, Briarcliff girls’ basketball coach Don Hamlin was undoubtedly having flashbacks to last year when his young Bears
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In what might be the strongest showing in recent history, four girls’ basketball programs from the Northern Westchester/Putnam County region will be dancing at the Westchester County Center this week, including Class AA Ossining, Class A Somers and Panas and
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