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It’s safe to say Kyle Palmieri is loving his hockey life these days. Palmieri, the former St. Peter’s Prep standout, is in his second season playing for his hometown New Jersey Devils after five years with the Anaheim Ducks. Palmieri was raised in Montvale, N.J., just a half hour or so away from the Prudential …

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The 2016 high school football season has ended, and although there wasn’t a state championship celebration this year in Hudson County, there was plenty to be proud of. For instance, there’s the 26th edition of The Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team. That’s right, for 26 straight years, the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain has …

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The 2016 high school football season has ended, and although there wasn’t a state championship celebration this year in Hudson County, there was plenty to be proud of. For instance, there’s the 26th edition of The Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team. That’s right, for 26 straight years, the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain has …

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It was another season to remember in a lifetime of memorable seasons at St. Anthony. Last year, the fabulous Friars posted yet another undefeated season, winning all 32 of their games, including the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions crown. The Friars won the T of C title for a record 13th time and the first time …

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When Penn State offensive line coach Matt Limegrover called Steven Gonzalez into his office last month, the Union City native didn’t know what to expect. But Limegrover was going to hit Gonzalez with some great news. Gonzalez was being promoted into the Nittany Lions’ starting lineup at right guard. And the timing couldn’t have been …

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In the late 1980s, there was no one and nothing better than Joey Sabato. He was a three-sport superstar at Weehawken High School, the all-time leading scorer in basketball, a standout running back and defensive back in football, a sure-fire baseball player with a cannon for an arm and a bat made out of gold. …

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The Hudson Catholic boys’ basketball team had just defeated St. Peter’s Prep in the Hudson County Tournament finale to capture their fifth consecutive county title. That idea itself was almost too much to even fathom. Hudson Catholic had gone 37 years without winning a single county crown and now the school has won five straight. …

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Justin Willis knew about a year ago where he was going to go to college. The Memorial senior right-handed pitcher, coveted by a ton of NCAA Division I schools, had it in his mind that he was headed to Nashville and going to pitch at Vanderbilt University. So last week’s national letter of intent signing …

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It’s safe to say that Jorge Portorreal was a late bloomer when it comes to sports. In fact, Portorreal is such a latecomer to athletics that he almost never arrived. He’s such a late bloomer that the rosebud almost never became a flower. The St. Peter’s Prep senior wasn’t much into sports when he was …

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Ransley Suaza is a 16-year-old sophomore at Union City High School. He also loves soccer. Suaza knows all the players on the Union City soccer team and follows the progress of the Soaring Eagles religiously. “I tried to be the equipment manager last year,” Suaza explains. “But I just couldn’t do it.” His cousin is …

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