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Although he’s still a very young man who hasn’t reached his 30th birthday just yet, Danny Suarez is an experienced veteran when it comes to playing for and coaching highly competitive summer baseball teams. After all, when Suarez was a youngster, he played for the Jersey City Stars of Tomorrow program that has now spawned …

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On to Minnesota for Jersey City RBI U-15 teamTalented group defeats Greater New York squad at Yankee Stadium for World Series berth”

John Pein had put his athletic career behind him. The Secaucus native and former Hudson Catholic two-sport standout (baseball and hockey) was content with his new life as a seventh-grade math teacher at North Bergen’s Lincoln School. “The truth is that some people don’t even know about what I did in sports,” said the 34-year-old …

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Secaucus native Pein headed to Caldwell College Hall
Mourning the passing of Waddleton, Bastek; Hoboken’s finest in action”

John Conroy knows that the challenge ahead won’t be easy. The North Bergen native and former St. Peter’s Prep standout two-way lineman has taken over the head football coaching reins at Ferris High School, replacing Rich Glover, who had a tumultuous 1-8 season in his only year at the school. “It’s definitely going to take …

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Conroy takes over football coaching at FerrisFormer Prep standout and long-time assistant replaces Glover”

Massimo Forte knows what it takes to develop a championship-style Little League baseball team. After all, the veteran Hoboken Little League coach and manager was the architect of the 2005 and 2006 Hoboken Little League teams that captured District 7 championships. So when Forte was selected to manage the Hoboken 9-and-10-year-old All-Stars this year in …

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Hoboken 10s win District 7 title; WNY American falls in Section 2 finale”

Local boxing trainer Butch Sanchez called it “the biggest disappointment of my life.” The Hoboken native, who trains a stable of Peruvian native boxers who now reside together in North Bergen, was busy selling tickets for a card featuring three of the four North Bergen fighters in Paterson, a card that was supposed to be …

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Boxing card featuring NB fighters canceledHill signs with Redskins; Anderson set for national ESPN/RISE game in L.A.”

For two decades, the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame was an annual event, honoring the stars of yesteryear. It was a festive dinner, completes with an awards presentation. It was always a night filled with memories and nostalgia, a yearly highly anticipated evening. But that’s all it was. It was a dinner, a souvenir …

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A permanent home for Hudson’s legendary athletesHudson County Sports Hall of Fame wall unveiled in Hudson County Plaza building”

There isn’t a city or town in Hudson County that has enjoyed more success in the annual District 7 Little League 12-year-old All-Star tournament than West New York. Dating back to 1966 and 1967, when kids from West New York won two consecutive New Jersey state titles and played in the overall Little League World …

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WNY American wins third straight District 7 Little League crown”

When St. Mary’s High School closed its doors forever in June, Pat Laguerre had no idea what would happen next to him. After all, Laguerre has spent most of his life at the tiny school on Third Street, first as a student-athlete and finally as a teacher and a coach in both basketball and baseball. …

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Laguerre lands on his feet with Prep baseball coaching jobPicinni named as Hoboken hoop coach; Giacone gives Rutgers a verbal”

Coming from a family that featured two products of the famed St. Anthony High School basketball program, namely his father Lenny and uncle Ziggy, Bryan Haczyk seemed destined to become a basketball player as well. Well, not quite. “I never played basketball at all,” said Haczyk, who was born in Jersey City until later moving …

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Jersey City native Haczyk living out a dream at Devils’ rookie camp”

Rick Reyes has been involved in youth baseball for many years. He was part of the Jersey City Recreation Diamond Dawgs program that was headed by the late Ed “The Faa” Ford, a team that featured his son, Ricky, a young man who has endured his fair share of medical adversity during his young life. …

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Jackie Robinson Little League sends older players to state tourney”