08.14.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #5: For McCoy, wrestling was love at first sight Kerry McCoy never planned on wrestling. Growing up in the Longwood School District, he couldn’t wait until he reached seventh grade and could play on a school basketball team....
08.13.2011 Sports Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame a shrine to area legends What began as a traveling museum has transformed into a permanent home filled with exhibits to commemorate the greatest athletes in Suffolk County’s history. The Suffolk Sports Hall of...
08.13.2011 Sports 20 Greatest Athletes: By the numbers After a one-day hiatus, the 20 Greatest Athletes in area history resumes with the Top 5 beginning Sunday. Here are some fun facts we’ve come up with for the...
08.12.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #6: Sailing life a good one for Shelter Island’s Clark Amanda Clark was still only a toddler when she received her first sailing lesson while on a boat with her parents, Dennis and Ellen. She stuck her hand in...
08.12.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Area waters have produced some great competitors Shelter Island sailor Amanda Clark, who competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in China, isn’t the only standout athlete to come from eastern Long Island waters. That really shouldn’t...
08.11.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #7: A love of punting carried Rick Donnelly into NFL As a running joke, Mitch Wolman and some of his close friends who grew up in Miller Place will test their knowledge of one another with trivia. A recent...
08.11.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Local football players learned just how tough the NFL can be All across America this fall thousands of boys will strap on shoulder pads and helmets as they begin a new season on the football field. They’ll dream of one...
08.10.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #8: Mersereau made most of opportunity There was Dennis Byrd this past January at the New York Jets’ hotel in Rhode Island on the eve of what head coach Rex Ryan called the franchise’s biggest...
08.10.2011 Sports Working for Chargers a labor of love for Riverhead native It was a long, twisting road that led Ed McGuire from the ball fields of Riverhead High School to a high position as a National Football League executive. That...
08.09.2011 Sports Greatest Athletes #9: Ferraro brothers made it together Their gloves are different. That’s the quickest way to tell Chris and Peter Ferraro apart as they skate around the rink, teaching at one of their summer hockey camps....