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If you were looking for the St. Dominic Academy-Hoboken softball game that was supposed to be played last week and can’t find it anywhere, there’s a good reason. Although the two teams were there and ready to play at Jersey City’s Lincoln Park last week and umpires were in place and the weather was okay …

Continue reading “TASTY TIDBITSControversy over softball postponement

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There’s always an aura, a mystique about being an NCAA Division I athlete. The title is worn like a badge of honor. It’s almost like an actor who wins an Oscar, who forever is known as “Academy Award winner,” mentioned before his or her name. After you receive a D-I scholarship, it follows you every …

Continue reading “ATHLETE OF THE WEEKGale-force winds Bruin in North Bergen

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A year ago, Pat Laguerre was still getting used to the fact that he was the head baseball coach at St. Peter’s Prep, after spending the previous 13 years as the head man at the now-defunct St. Mary’s of downtown Jersey City. “It was a transition year more for me than it was for them,” …

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You have to forgive Danny Suarez if he was a little preoccupied as the high school season began. That’s because the third-year head baseball coach at Dickinson High School became a father for the first time a few weeks ago. Jaslyn Olivia Suarez weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces when she entered the world March 21, …

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Last summer, Hudson Catholic head baseball coach Alberto Vasquez added a new line to his professional resume. He became a Jersey City police officer. So while Vasquez is armed as he patrols the streets of his hometown, his baseball team is equally armed with quality pitchers. The Hawks have four stellar right-handers that Vasquez can …

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Neither Rashon Burno nor Mike Rosario has been back to their old Jersey City neighborhood in a while. That’s just fine, because they wouldn’t recognize where they both used to live. Their homes growing up were the Duncan Projects, the crime-infested public housing high-rises that sat on Duncan Avenue for ages. The buildings where both …

Continue reading “SCOREBOARDOnce products of Duncan Projects, now headed to NCAA Sweet 16

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Neither Rashon Burno nor Mike Rosario has been back to their old Jersey City neighborhood in a while. That’s just fine, because they wouldn’t recognize where they both used to live. Their homes growing up were the Duncan Projects, the crime-infested public housing high-rises that sat on Duncan Avenue for ages. The buildings where both …

Continue reading “SCOREBOARDOnce products of Duncan Projects, now headed to NCAA Sweet 16

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It’s amazing how some people get their chances to be head basketball coaches. It might take a last minute phone call of a recommendation or perhaps an e-mail with kind words. Or perhaps your last name happens to be Hurley. That’s good for a few points. Or even better, you happen to be Bobby Hurley, …

Continue reading “TASTY TIDBITSMake it a trifecta of Hurley head basketball coaches

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It’s amazing how some people get their chances to be head basketball coaches. It might take a last minute phone call of a recommendation or perhaps an e-mail with kind words. Or perhaps your last name happens to be Hurley. That’s good for a few points. Or even better, you happen to be Bobby Hurley, …

Continue reading “TASTY TIDBITSMake it a trifecta of Hurley head basketball coaches

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When Ed Stinson resigned as the head football coach at Hoboken High School in 2005, it marked the end of an era. In the 1990s, Hoboken dominated the Hudson County football scene. In that time span, the Red Wings enjoyed two lengthy winning streaks. There was one of 38 games (the second longest in Hudson …

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