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The temperatures might have reached 96 degrees last Saturday afternoon at Dr. Lena Edwards Park in Jersey City, a site also known as either “Baby Rutgers” or “Baby Rucker,” depending upon who you might talk to. But the heat and humidity didn’t deter a collection of some of the all-time greatest high school basketball players …

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The Bruins of North Bergen are coming off a 7-3 season where they made yet another appearance in the NJSIAA state playoffs, losing to Hackensack in the first round of the North Jersey Section 1, Group IV bracket. No Hudson County school has appeared in more state playoff games than North Bergen. Since the inception …

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When they arrived at the start of training camp with the New York Giants a few weeks ago, there was no way that Robert Ayers and Jonathan Casillas knew each other. After all, the two seven-year NFL veterans came from totally different backgrounds. Defensive end Ayers went to the University of Tennessee, was drafted by …

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Jagan Mosely was going to face a tough decision when making his choice for a future college. An academic standout at St. Anthony where he plays basketball and has a good chance of being his class valedictorian, Mosely was going to take his 4.2 grade point average and high Scholastic Aptitude Test scores to the …

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Kamil Laszczyk was a diminutive featherweight boxer from a city called Wroclan in his native Poland in 2010, when he learned of a Polish businessman that was helping Polish boxers in the United States. With that, Laszczyk reached out to Mariusz “Mark” Kolodziej, the owner and operator of the successful Hudson Bread Company and Breadman …

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When Jersey City natives Ed and Christopher Lucas sat down together to put Ed Lucas’ incredible journey in life in a book, they never realized where the book would take them. “I had no idea where we would end up,” said Ed Lucas, who lost his sight as a young boy after getting hit in …

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When St. Joseph (Metuchen) decided at the end of the high school baseball season not to rehire the popular and successful Steve Bucchignano as head baseball coach, it left Justin Willis with a little bit of a quandary. Willis, the talented West New York native who decided to attend the Metuchen school, commuting to Middlesex …

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Ever since Hoboken Recreation started a Major League Baseball Rebuilding Baseball in the Inner-City (RBI) program, the organization’s softball team has been a major national power. This year is no exception, as the Hoboken RBI All-Stars have once again captured the Eastern Regional championship and have jetted off to Dallas-Fort Worth for the RBI World …

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Rocco Dioguardi will never forget his roots as a standout athlete at North Bergen High School. Dioguardi was a fine defensive end and an excellent punter, earning Hudson Reporter All-Area honors in 2003 as the county’s top punter. While he was playing for the Bruins, Dioguardi took a liking to working out, especially weightlifting. “I …

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Over the last 25 years as mayor of the township of Weehawken, Richard Turner has honored his fair share of athletes and recognized athletic achievement when it comes to the residents of the township. Champions have been regularly honored with proclamations. Even professional athletes who reside in the township have been recognized. But last week, …

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