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New field makes long-awaited debut
The spring season means a new sports playing field on the John F. Kennedy High School campus will get its first tests. Oscar Martinez has coached the varsity defensive line and tight ends on the Kennedy football team since the end of 2020 and has been fighting for the field to be redone for just about as long.
Uniondale continues to show progress
Uniondale’s boys’ track and field program is a team budding with fresh new talent, looking to take the next step. On May13, the Knights took a critical jump towards doing so at the Nassau Division 1A championships. “Many of the kids who were scoring points for us are...
HS boys’ lacrosse: Tottenville wraps up unbeaten season with PSAL AA city crown (55 photos)
The Tottenville Pirates reclaimed their traditional seat atop the New York City PSAL Division AA Lacrosse Conference on Sunday, capping an undefeated season with a 16-6 drubbing of Midwood in the championship game at Curtis High School, St. George. The Pirates swamped Midwood from the opening faceoff, scoring three goals...
Demarest promotes assistant coach to head football job
Continuity and chemistry are the major themes for new Demarest football coach Rob Petrella. The 34-year-old former assistant - and chemistry teacher - at Demarest was approved as the program's new head coach by the district’s board of education on Monday night. He's also currently the school's head softball coach.
MacArthur produces 13-win season
The MacArthur flag football team’s first playoff game on May 15 against Valley Stream District swung on an unconventional defensive play that senior linebacker Hailey Metzger mastered this season. Metzger, a standout soccer player in the fall, picked off a Valley Stream option pass with five minutes left in...
13 awesome marathon pictures from this weekend's Brooklyn Half
This past weekend, over 28,000 very fit New Yorkers participated in the Brooklyn Half, the 13.1-mile-long marathon that starts off at the Brooklyn Museum, proceeds through Prospect Park and ends on the Coney Island boardwalk, a route that turns the feat of physical prowess into a proper tour of the borough.
What could have been hangs over Scottie Scheffler after uneven PGA Championship, arrest whirlwind
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Scottie Scheffler’s stressful and adventurous week was almost over. It was time to go home. Finally. The world’s No. 1-ranked player was standing on the 18th green under the searing Kentucky sun waiting for his playing partner, Mark Hubbard, to putt out so he could make his 271st and final stroke of the PGA Championship at Valhalla. As Scheffler waited to tap in his 2-foot par putt on the 72nd hole of one of the longest and most bizarre weeks of his life, he took a long look at the large scoreboard to the right of the green. He assessed...
Melandro, Shah Repeat As Nassau County Doubles Champions
They had been there before. A year ago, Syosset’s Devan Melandro & Nikhil Shah came back from a set down to win the Nassau County Doubles Championship. So, when the duo found themselves in the same position on Sunday, there was no panic. “We told ourselves we could do...
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