08.05.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Scandal pushed Braunskill off the track Kevin Braunskill could fly on a track, but even with that magnificent speed of his, he was unable to chase down his dream of running in the Olympic Games....
08.04.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #14: Kraus always tested the limits Asked when he first knew Janelle Kraus could be a great runner, her high school cross country coach didn’t pause for even a second. “The very first workout of...
08.04.2011 Sports Flashback: Hip injury doesn’t slow Kraus Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in the Nov. 16, 1995 edition of The Suffolk Times, one week after Janelle Kraus won a state cross country championship. A...
08.04.2011 Sports Kraus among the many great runners to train under Clark Janelle Kraus is just one of many great runners to train under the tutelage of Shelter Island’s Cliff Clark. Long considered one of Long Island’s finest coaches, Clark, who...
08.03.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #15: Clark never expected a life of running The walls in Cliff Clark’s second floor office at the South Ferry Company building on Shelter Island are loaded with photographs from his life. There are the celebrities, like...
08.03.2011 Sports Flashback: Cliff Clark places fifth in try for Olympic team This story was originally published in the July 6, 1972 edition of the Shelter Island Reporter, just four days after Cliff Clark finished competing in the Olympic Trials: Cliff...
08.02.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #16: Nobody could run like Carl Smith It’s no small irony that one of the greatest runners on a football field or a track that Riverhead High School has ever produced can no longer run. Having...
08.02.2011 Sports Flashback: Waves Hang Tough This story was originally published in the Nov. 13, 1986 issue of The Riverhead News-Review. RIVERHEAD — The big one almost got away. But in the end, Riverhead’s football...
08.02.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: 40 years later Flippen’s record still stands Carl Smith’s state championship meet record in the 100 meter has stood for nearly 25 years since he set it in 1987. Every year a group of eager high...
08.01.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #17: Bettenhauser could do it all SWR Poor Keith Del Mar. Here was his chance to shine, an opportunity to own bragging rights over all his buddies. In a Pitch, Hit and Run contest, the 12-year-old...