08.13.2016 Sports Sports Desk: True confessions of an Olympicphile Friday, Aug. 5, was a big day. I had it marked down on my calendar for months, as if I might forget. LOL. No chance of that happening. How...
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.
07.16.2016 Columns Column: Olympic ‘disaster’ awaits in Rio de Janeiro In three weeks the world’s greatest athletes will take center stage at the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, a grand spectacle that will seize our nation’s attention and...
08.13.2012 Columns Monday Briefing: Olympics remind us of all we can accomplish Why do we love the Olympics so much? I found myself involved in several conversations on this topic the past couple weeks. Is it our love of country? Our...
08.10.2012 Sports Sailing: Shelter Island sailor’s Olympic journey comes to an end After eight days and 11 races through the waters on the south coast of England, the 2012 Olympic competition for Shelter Island’s Amanda Clark and teammate Sarah Lihan came...
08.08.2012 News Sailing: Amanda Clark advances to Olympic medal race When the final 10 boats remaining set sail in the Women’s 470 medal race, Shelter Island’s Amanda Clark will skipper the United States of America’s boat. She will not,...
08.07.2012 Sports Olympics: Two top 10 finishes have Clark moving up the standings They’re moving on up. Shelter Island Olympian Amanda Clark and her Team Go Sail partner, Sarah Lihan, posted a pair of top 10 finishes in the Women’s 470 Tuesday...
08.03.2012 Sports Island’s own Amanda Clark tied for fourth after first two Olympic races Shelter Islander Amanda Clark and her racing partner Sarah Lihan are in a fourth-place tie following their first two Olympic Women’s 470 sailing races this morning off the coast...
07.27.2012 Sports Extra Point: Turning the Olympics into fantasy The most important thing to remember when preparing for a fantasy Olympics draft is never to let patriotism get in the way. OK, let’s back up a second. I...
12.17.2011 Sports Shelter Island sailor does it again: Clark makes it to 2012 Olympics “We did it!” was the triumphant message from Shelter Island’s Amanda Clark on Facebook early Saturday morning Eastern Standard Time after she and her crew Sarah Lihan won a...
