Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Charlie Voorhees would be the first one to tell anyone that his Secaucus High School football team didn’t exactly set the world on fire in 2012. “It was a hard one to go through,” said Voorhees, the veteran head coach of the Patriots, of his team’s 4-6 campaign a year ago. “Seven of our 10 …
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It’s safe to say that Robert Hampton wants to forget about the calendar year of 2012. The Lincoln High School head football coach first faced adversity early last summer, when he suffered a torn Achilles tendon during a team workout. The injury forced Hampton to have surgery and be out of regular commission for months. …
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It’s September, so it means one thing. St. Peter’s Prep has the premier football team in Hudson County. It’s been that way every year since 1997. The Marauders own a gaudy and almost unfathomable 102-game winning streak within the confines of the county, having not lost a game to a Hudson County school since 2000. …
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Czar Wiley said that he learned a lot during his first year as the North Bergen head football coach. “I knew what I wanted to do,” said Wiley, the former North Bergen three-sport standout and former Hudson Reporter Athlete of the Year in 1997. “Because I got the job late, I thought it might take …
The 2012 high school football season was a glorious one for the Red Wings of Hoboken, who captured the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state championship at MetLife Stadium with a convincing 39-9 rout of Roselle Park. The one-sided victory capped a dominating three-game run in the state playoffs, as the Red Wings …
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The sun had not risen yet over Union City High School’s rooftop stadium last week, but there was plenty activity going on with the Soaring Eagles football team. The clock might have read 5:45 a.m., but the Soaring Eagles were already at work, before the deliverymen took their trucks on the road. “We’re used to …
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After seriously debating between Ohio State and Rutgers as his two final college choices, St. Peter’s Prep standout running back Jonathan Hilliman made his decision official last week. Hilliman is headed to Rutgers. The speedster announced his intentions in front of his teammates after a Marauders’ workout session at the school’s practice facility downtown Jersey …
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There’s no question that Damien Corredor and Dante Cieri meant the world to the Weehawken High School football program. The talented tandem helped to put Weehawken back on the map, scoring more than 100 touchdowns combined over their careers and leading the Indians back to the NJSIAA state playoffs for the first time in a …
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In Hoboken, back in the 1930s and 1940s, the most popular mode of transportation was ironically the horse. Sure, there were the trolleys and there were buses. Some people were even fortunate to own cars. But most of everything else was done by horses. “Everything was horse drawn back then,” said Pat Bencivegna, who grew …
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It was three years ago, when a fellow named Ron Lagman asked Julius David if he could run a basketball clinic with the Filipino community in mind. “Filipinos love basketball,” David said. It was the birth of Hoopsville Cares, a basketball teaching non-profit organization, run solely on charitable contributions. “Ron was able to get some …
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