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The news that hit Samantha Hines in November of 2013 was perhaps worse than hearing about any possible injury or illness. Hines, the standout Ferris High School basketball player, was told she could not play for her entire junior year because of her academic status. “I was hurt and really upset,” Hines said. “I couldn’t …

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Dan Reardon didn’t think much of having a sore throat and swollen glands last summer. But a routine trip to the doctor turned out to be the veteran North Bergen High School girls’ basketball coach’s biggest nightmare. Reardon was diagnosed with having advanced cancer of the lymph nodes. “I told the doctor at the time …

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Ed Stinson’s return to head coaching a Hudson County football team lasted just two seasons. The Hudson County Sports Hall of Famer and state coaching honoree, who was just named the Hudson Reporter Coach of the Year as well as the Coach of the Year by the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic League coaches, resigned his …

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Weehawken High School’s latest basketball superstar came to the school by way of California and two different Hudson County high schools before arriving in Weehawken. But at this point, no one cares how McKay LeDuke came to be. Even his name is of marquee value, something that belongs in lights at your neighborhood movie theater. …

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The men’s college basketball season wasn’t supposed to have such a rugged start for the Peacocks of St. Peter’s University. The preseason prognosticators all figured that the Peacocks would be a highly competitive team this season, right in the thick of things in the always rough-and-tumble world of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. But the …

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Jonathan Maicelo never once thought his professional boxing career was over when he suffered a loss in April of 2013 to Russian champion Rustam Nugaev via an eighth-round knockout at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. The 31-year-old North Bergen resident and native of Peru realized he didn’t have the right approach in battling …

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Her senior basketball season had begun, yet Julia McClure still didn’t know what her future held. Sure, McClure knew she was going to have yet another sensational season, playing for the Patriots of Secaucus High School, like she did for the previous three seasons, earning Hudson Reporter All-Area First Team honors all three years. But …

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It appears as if the fabulous Friars of St. Anthony are fabulous once again. Three seasons after St. Anthony won the national championship with the likes of All-American Kyle Anderson (now with the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA) and Myles Mack (now at Rutgers), the Friars appear to have all the makings of being …

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Alex Mirabel knew exactly what he was getting into, when he decided to take over the ravaged St. Peter’s Prep basketball team. The 31-year-old Mirabel, the former assistant coach at Prep, was elevated to head coach when former coach Todd Decker stepped down after last season, a year that ended with the Marauders capturing the …

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A year ago, the St. Dominic Academy basketball program was devastated with the news that head coach David Wunsch had to resign with three games to go in the regular season, because he didn’t have a proper teaching certificate after an incident in Leonia forced him to relinquish the certificate. At the time, the school …

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