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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Have we forgotten how to celebrate?
You guys need to help me out with something. Am I overreacting, or is anyone else bugged by the latest preferred method of celebration that kids have borrowed from the pros.
It goes something like this: The player hits a game-winning shot and runs as fast as he can AWAY from teammates looking to celebrate with him. I [...]
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BOXING: The good and the bad
If you are a boxing fan and can make it, I suggest you give the Brigade Boxing Open a shot on Tuesday at West Point.
It’s basically the boxing championships of West Point, with 12 divisions fighting it out in three, 2:00 rounds. The fights are lively and the atmosphere terrific. The card begins at 6 [...]
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M-W kids are the ones who fumble
Sometimes there is a fine line between fans enthusiastically showing school spirit and acting like jerks. A group of Monroe-Woodbury High fans, including members of its state-caliber football team, seem to have, at best, straddled that line recently.
According to eyewitness accounts, several M-W fans popped in on a Monroe-Woodbury at Minisink Valley boys’ basketball game. [...]
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Slice of spring training, Marlboro style
Marlboro High graduate Rob Bell is trying to hang on with the Washington Nationals. Neil Fino, Bell’s high school coach, went down to visit the right-hander in spring training last week and a reporter for The Florida Today happened by as Fino watched.
Below is part of the story, courtesy of former Marlboro administrator Jack O’Donnell.
BY [...]
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LONG-snapper earns scholarship
Jeff Long has been practicing long-snapping a good eight years in his backyard with dad. He’d practice after football practice at Port Jervis High. He’d practice before games, simulating punt snaps by hitting the square in the middle of a blue tarp, simulating field-goal snaps by knocking cones off buckets without touching the bucket.
Now he’s [...]
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Liz and Kevin Houston: Time to give them an assist
The first time I saw Kevin Houston play basketball was about 15 years ago in the Empire State Games. I had heard about him, of course — his nation-leading 33-point average his season season at Army, his 2,325 career points, still an Academy record — but I was still unprepared for what I was about [...]
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Local boxers advance, wait
Orlando DelValle, the Newburgh Boxing Club star with a ton of potential, had his pro debut scheduled for this past Friday canceled. According to the DelValle camp, he wasn’t able to get a physical in time after being told too late that he’d need one. No makeup has been set, but he’s expected to enter the [...]
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This horse is a winner
Monticello Raceway publicity man John Manzi passed along a great note yesterday. A horse named Connors Blue Chip won by six lengths with Mike Forte driving. But after he finished, another horse hooked Connors Blue Chip’s wheel and dumped Forte to the ground.
The trotter then turned and went back the opposite way on the track [...]
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Newburgh Boxing Club representing
Newburgh Boxing Club’s Orlando DelValle will make his pro debut on Friday in Chicago. DelValle’s a legit prospect, and along with buddy Nagy Aguilera (6-0, 4 KOs), a heavyweight, forms a great one-two professional punch from the NBC.
The club, over on Washington Avenue in the heart of Newburgh, will send Tre’sean Johnson to the Golden [...]
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