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The 2010 high school football season represented a return to glory for the Bruins of North Bergen. The Bruins suffered through a less-than-memorable 2008 campaign in which they posted a totally uncharacteristic 3-7 record and failed to qualify for the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group IV state playoffs for the first time since 1987. …

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Bruins look to build on their return to state playoffsNorth Bergen aims for another trip to Group IV glory”

As he begins his seventh season as the head football coach at Hoboken High School, Lou Taglieri knows that he has to put last year’s 7-3 campaign behind him and his program. “We have to put in a box and put it on the shelf,” Taglieri said. “We don’t return a lot of people, so …

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Rebecca Delbert had the fortune to meet Bill DeFazio right before the legendary high school girls’ basketball coach lost his battle to pancreatic cancer last November. “I went to a basketball camp and I met Coach DeFazio there,” said Delbert, who will enter Marist High School as a freshman in the coming weeks. “He was …

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Remembering DeFazio in form of a scholarshipAnd: Weehawken, WNY seriously consider Formula One auto racing”

The calendar reads August and for St. Peter’s Prep head football coach Rich Hansen, that’s all that matters. Hansen can’t even begin to think about December and what possibly lies ahead. “We’re focused on what we have in front of us now,” Hansen said as he prepares for his 26th season as the head coach …

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Prep gears up for another great football campaignNot even thinking about national power that ended Marauders’ season last five years”

When Mariusz “Mark” Kolodziej first opened his businesses of Hudson Bread and Breadman Café on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, he quickly took a strong hold of the baking goods industry in Hudson County. Kolodziej then expanded his businesses to include the boxing game, first opening the Global Boxing Gym next to his bread and …

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It’s almost unfathomable to conceive that Hudson County would lose two athletic legends in the span of just 10 days. It’s almost even more unbelievable that the two legends would come from the very same family. On July 30, we bade farewell to George Waddleton, the first-ever 1,000-point scorer in St. Peter’s Prep basketball history. …

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The biggest decision of Kyle Anderson’s young life is exactly now one month away and the St. Anthony High School basketball standout is feeling a wide range of emotions. “I’m nervous, excited and worried,” said Anderson, the Hudson Reporter Boys’ High School Basketball Player of the Year last year who led the fabulous Friars to …

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Anderson anxiously awaits big decision daySt. Anthony standout narrows down college choices; will choose on his birthday next month”

Ever since word came out that local boxing hero Arturo Gatti was found dead in a San Paolo, Brazil hotel room a little more than two years ago, a death that Brazilian officials later deemed as a suicide, his manager, Union City boxing guru Pat Lynch, vowed to prove that Gatti did not take his …

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Investigation to prove that Gatti’s death was not suicidePrayers for Waddleton; Jersey City’s Jackson back in Panthers’ camp”

After the Jersey City/Pershing Field Yankees 18-and-under team lost in the finals of Major League Baseball’s RBI (Reviving Baseball in the Inner-Cities) Northeast Regional to a team from Greater New York in Yankee Stadium last week, head coach Alberto Vasquez was convinced that the season was over. His team lost a heartbreaker in the bottom …

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Jersey City/Pershing Field gets reprieve in RBI World Series”

What began as a simple hobby for a Jersey City artist has now morphed into a big-time career, one that will soon see him creating a sports mural on a yet to be determined wall location in the city. Paul Lempa, who was a former standout basketball player at St. Peter’s Prep and New York …

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Jersey City sports artist Lempa gets commissioned to create mural”