04.08.2017 Sports Sports Desk: The Mahon Cave will take your breath away “WE INTERRUPT THIS FAMILY FOR BASEBALL SEASON.” So reads the quaint sign, decorated with a baseball and bat, hanging by the front door of the Mahon family residence. It...
09.05.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Entering a brave, new world in sports coverage I have often joked that I am well qualified to give a seminar to sports reporters on how to cover the blowout game. You know, a game that is...
08.13.2016 Sports Sports Desk: True confessions of an Olympicphile Friday, Aug. 5, was a big day. I had it marked down on my calendar for months, as if I might forget. LOL. No chance of that happening. How...
08.02.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Summering with Hamptons League isn’t bad It is true that first impressions can be lasting impressions. Not always, but in this case, it certainly is the case. My first impression of the quality of college...
04.11.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Bundle up, spring is here in full force Ah, springtime. There’s nothing quite like it, is there? Spring must have a good public-relations person.
03.07.2016 Sports Sports Desk: No need for tears after an unprecedented season like this First Marlboro shot the lights out. Then the lights went out on the greatest high school girls basketball season Mattituck has ever enjoyed.
03.02.2016 Sports Sports Desk: For these gladiators, toughness is part of the game They are the modern high school version of gladiators. Wrestlers are tough. They have to be, competing in the toughest of high school sports.
02.27.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Here’s something neat — notes on note-taking What I used to find somewhat embarrassing, I now find amusing.
10.01.2015 Sports Sports Desk: 250-plus wins later, Sadowski still loves coaching Andrew Sadowski was too caught up in the small picture to immediately appreciate the larger picture. Then his players reminded him by giving him a round of applause.
08.29.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Video is another creative form of sports storytelling “Let’s go to the videotape!” Back when I was a kid in the 1970s, that was the trademark phrase Warner Wolf used when he was the sportscaster for WABC-TV,...