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He had bounced from Roselle Catholic to Marist to finally St. Anthony in a span of a little more than a year, but Asante Gist was sure that he had found a basketball home, albeit in his final year of high school. “I knew I should have been here from the start,” Gist said. But …

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Another trophy has been added to the overflowing awards case at St. Anthony High School. There are now 28 of the gold fixtures floating around the tiny downtown Jersey City school, in different areas, different trophy cases. One place of prominence is constructed and then has to be altered, because yet another NJSIAA state championship …

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Five years ago, when Nassir Barrino decided that he wanted to attend Hudson Catholic from his native Newark, leaving his childhood friends behind, Barrino did so with one thing in mind. Heading to Jersey City every day from Newark and going to Hudson Catholic was Barrino’s shot at heading to a good NCAA Division I …

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WhenJustin Davis was a little boy, he didn’t need to look very far for his basketball inspiration. It was in his own living room in the form of his father, Jerome. You see, Jerome Davis was a tenacious and tough power forward for St. Peter’s College from 1992 through 1997. He was a key cog …

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Three years ago, Greg Herenda took a major gamble in becoming the head basketball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck. At the time, Herenda looked at it as a chance to come home again, returning as close as possible to his North Bergen roots, after spending the better part of the last decade at …

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Glenn Delaney, the head of rugby operations for British Premier club London Irish, knows how important it is to draw a fan base for the sport in the United States. “If you want to have global success, then you do like the Beatles did, coming to the U.S. and playing New York [in particular the …

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When Dan Ortega was entering his freshman year at North Bergen High School, he envisioned himself as becoming the next in line of great Bruin running backs. Ortega was a standout in the North Bergen Pop Warner football program and just naturally thought he would progress to where he was carrying the pigskin for the …

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There was a time not so long ago that winning the Hudson County Tournament basketball title would be an absolute novelty for the Hawks of Hudson Catholic. After all, the Hawks went 37 years without winning a single county title. From the glory days of Jim Spanarkel and Mike O’Koren actually beating St. Anthony in …

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He’s 62 years old now and has been the principal of Kennedy School in North Bergen for the last decade. Mike Guasconi should be winding down a career, not starting one. But last week, Guasconi finally got the job that he thought he was getting four years ago, when the late Vince Ascolese retired as …

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Alec Kelly started wrestling when he was just 4 years old, but he already had been grappling a bit at home. You see, Alec has a younger brother, Michael, who is two years younger. So the Kelly brothers used to wrestle with each other in the living room of their Wood-Ridge home. It was just …

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