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Before his team took on New Providence in the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state championship game last Saturday at the New Meadowlands Stadium, Lincoln head football coach Robert Hampton knew that his team had to play pretty much perfect football to knock off a perennial state playoff contender with a legendary coach …

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Lincoln’s dream dies hard in the MeadowlandsLions fall to New Providence, 21-8, in NJSIAA North 2, Group I finale”

It was hard for John Dunne to spin a positive light on a 20-point loss to the cross-state Catholic school rival in Seton Hall, but the St. Peter’s College head basketball coach tried his best after his Peacocks dropped a 69-49 decision at the Prudential Center Monday night. It was the fifth game in a …

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Franklin Walker was content being a college football coach in the late 1970s, working as an assistant coach at then-Jersey City State College with the immortal late Harry Massey. But in 1979, someone in the Jersey City Board of Education had the infinite wisdom to suggest that Walker take over the football program at Lincoln …

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Lincoln tries to recapture a piece of history in NJSIAA grid finaleFormer coach, current coach have special bond that lasts three decades”

Lincoln head football coach Robert Hampton is not like your typical gridiron mentor. He uses music references when talking about football and checks the astrological signs of his players on a regular basis. He’s definitely one of a kind. Over the five years that Hampton has guided the Lincoln football program, he’s also had a …

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Lincoln’s Goodwin handles host of rolesLions headed to state title game at Meadowlands, first time since 1981”

The first of what is expected to be many guilty pleas involving New Jersey school athletic administrators came down last week, when former Long Branch High School athletic director Charles Ferrara, Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Ferrara is the first casualty of the major federal investigation into the illegal bid rigging …

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Major fallout expected in the Circle Systems Group scandalMcNair Academic girls’ soccer enjoys fine season; Reilly reaches impressive milestone”

The demise of the High Tech/County Prep athletic programs and the subsequent fallout from it continues – and the mess surrounding it just gets worse and worse. It was learned last week that four former High Tech basketball players, who had transferred to Union City High School last September after the athletic programs were eliminated …

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Once and current High Tech students circumvent transfer ruleFour hoopsters head back to High Tech from Union City”

Peter Ramanand was a quarterback for most of his young life growing up, playing the position when he participated in the Weehawken Pop Warner program when he was a youngster. But when he arrived at North Bergen High School three years ago, he was not a quarterback. He was more of a wide receiver and …

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Ramanand leads North Bergen to state playoff winQB passes, runs Bruins to first playoff win in 13 years”

There are some memories of when you are a small child that remain with you for a lifetime, flashbacks to perhaps your earliest recollections. Like when JFK was assassinated. I was a little more than two years old, but I remember how our family mourned for days, glued to the television for any and all …

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Basketball legend DeFazio dies after battle with cancerFormer St. Anthony, Marist girls’ coach leaves legacy of greatness”