07.18.2021 Columns Guest Spot: As first loves go, this one was intense and heartbreaking Do you remember the day you fell in love for the first time? I do, like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful October day and for me it...
02.05.2019 Sports The Webster Sports Network is born It was February, 1980. The United States Olympic ice hockey team surprised the world by upsetting the team from the Soviet Union in the semifinal round. As the clock...
06.14.2018 Sports Golf Gazette: Shinnecock sees some changes for U.S. Open “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” —Benjamin Franklin The United States Golf Association has heeded the words spoken over 200 years ago by Franklin, one of our founding fathers....
05.16.2018 Sports Golf Gazette: The Woods has its first FT pro Statistics show that the average person will hold 12 to 15 jobs during their lifetime and will make five to seven career changes. My money is on Mike Springer,...
11.01.2017 Sports Baseball: Southold fixture has baseball in his blood WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM April 27, 1955 To: Thomas O’Brien Connecticut State Teacher’s College, New Britain, Connecticut Subject: Scholarship
08.07.2017 Sports Golf: Late entry wins Met Amateur at Laurel Links Matt Mattare had not planned on being in Laurel for the Metropolitan Golf Association’s 115th Met Amateur Championship. Not only was he there, though, he was the last one...
07.24.2017 Sports Aspiring broadcaster hones his craft at Hamptons Baseball League games As a young baseball fan back in the late 1950s, I would crawl under the covers at night with my Emerson transistor radio and listen to baseball games.
08.28.2016 Sports Golf Gazette: Taking a ball’s-eye view of the golf game Question: What is 1 1/2 inches in diameter, weighs a bit over an ounce, and can travel more than a hundred miles an hour? I’ll bet some of you...
07.31.2016 Sports Golf Gazette: After 112 years, golf returns to the Olympics The last time golf was featured as an Olympic sport was at the 1904 Games held in St. Louis, and a lot has changed since then.
06.19.2016 Sports Golf Gazette: Teaching your kids to golf has its rewards The first time I played a regulation round of golf was with my father when I was 12 years old. A friend of Dad’s asked if we wanted to...