01.05.2015 Sports Calling all Mercy basketball alumni McGann-Mercy High School is hosting its annual alumni basketball game Jan. 10 in the high school gymnasium. Alumni of all ages, men and women, are invited to join.
12.26.2014 Sports No. 7 Sports Story of the Year: A coaching legend passes on Jack Hussnatter, a Mattituck coaching legend, seemed to have been cut from the same cloth that produced other old-school coaches like Greenport’s Dorrie Jackson and Southold’s Dick Osmer. His...
07.17.2014 Sports Three on three hoops tournament Saturday in Mattituck The 12th annual Timothy J. Casey Memorial three on three basketball tournament will take place in the air conditioned Mattituck High School gym Saturday at 11 a.m.
07.01.2014 Sports NBA slam dunk champ hosts camp at McGann-Mercy H.S. Among the jerseys on display Tuesday at McGann-Mercy High School were the mainstays of the NBA: LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony. Some of the kids went old-school, wearing...
06.27.2014 Sports Mercy hires former NFL QB as football coach Five months after the surprise dismissal of Jeff Doroski as McGann-Mercy’s varsity football coach, the school made a splash Friday in announcing his replacement.
12.21.2013 Columns Column: Basketball fever — he’s got it bad I once had a sportswriting assignment, when I was still in college, that required me to attend five 40-minute basketball games in the span of one long afternoon-evening. And...
05.28.2013 Columns Sports Column: Meet Peter Vecsey, Shelter Island’s hall of fame columnist So far I have met three major sportswriters who call Shelter Island home. And almost a fourth. Now, when I say major, I mean newspapers with large circulations. There’s...
04.30.2013 Sports Sports Briefs: Mercy senior signs NLI COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Gehring signs with D-II school Bishop McGann-Mercy senior Danielle Gehring signed a letter of intent to play for Chestnut Hill College, a Division II Catholic college...
03.15.2013 Sports Greenport to host ‘Final Four’ basketball tourney tonight Four East End schools will team up tonight for a “Final Four” night at Greenport High School to compete for the North Fork championship title in a three-on-three basketball...
08.08.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Mattituck tennis coach was a Georgetown hoops legend The basketball courts at Forest Park in Queens were not much different than many other basketball courts in New York City. They had four baskets (with no nets), a...