09.21.2017 Sports Football Notebook: Fonseca’s return is cut short The anticipated return of Jordan Fonseca wasn’t quite what was envisioned. Fonseca, who was coming off a high ankle sprain and had sat out the season-opening loss to Hampton...
09.15.2017 Sports Football: Porters drop to 0-2 with loss to Mercy This is not the same Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School football team as last year. No way, no how. The team’s early-season results and the way it plays on...
09.12.2017 Sports Football Notebook: Anderson turns losses into gains In his first varsity start for the Greenport/Southold/Mattituck high school football team Friday night, Ahkee Anderson provided ample demonstrations of how to turn a negative into a positive. And...
09.08.2017 Sports Football: Thunder, lightning wear down Porters The weather for Friday night’s season-opening football game at Hampton Bays High School was nothing less than splendid — crisp and comfortable. Some thunder and lightning, though, spoiled things...
09.08.2017 Sports Football Preview: Doing more with less, a way of life The wording on the back of the black hooded sweatshirt Jack Martilotta wore during practice on an unseasonably cool Friday morning said it best: “DOING MORE WITH LESS.”
09.05.2017 Sports Football: Soph QB will run Porters’ new offense The Greenport/Southold/Mattituck varsity football players are differentiated from the junior varsity players by the colors of their practice jerseys. While the varsity players wear gold, the JV players don...
08.21.2017 Sports Football: Porters welcome Swann’s sizable presence Julian Swann is coming. Julian Swann is coming. This wasn’t the first time that Greenport/Southold/Mattituck high school football coaches had heard that Swann was coming out for the team....
08.19.2017 Sports Football: This girl has gridiron dreams She’s one of the guys now. In a sport that preaches conformity, one football player stood out from the others on the Greenport High School practice field Friday morning....
08.18.2017 Editorials Editorial: Another football season, another tragedy The Suffolk County high school football season officially began Monday morning under the shadow of another tragedy, raising new concerns about safety in a sport where brain injuries have...
04.25.2017 Sports Football: Two Porters will graduate to college ball Keegan Syron and Jake Skrezec have different physiques and playing styles, but they both share a common trait: toughness. That toughness will enable both Greenport/Southold/Mattituck high school football players...