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Charlie Voorhees has a lot more on his plate these days than being the new athletic director at Secaucus High School. The long-time head football coach at the school, Voorhees also has perhaps the biggest challenge of his 13-year coaching career. Only two offensive starters and three defensive players are returning from the 7-3 squad …

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Lincoln High School head football coach Robert Hampton doesn’t want to dwell on what happened in the past, even though the last three years have been very fruitful for the Jersey City program. “It’s done,” said Hampton, when asked about the Lions’ fine 2010 season that ended with the school’s first-ever trip to the Meadowlands …

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As a panel of private investigators, pathologists, and scientists sat in a row at the Global Boxing Gym in North Bergen to reveal the results of a 10-month investigation into the mysterious death of local boxing hero and former world champion Arturo Gatti in July of 2009, highlights of Gatti’s last of three fights against …

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Gatti’s death ruled homicide by investigative groupSay there’s no way courageous boxer killed self in 2009”

The St. Anthony High School football program is still in its infant stages, as the Friars begin just their fourth season of varsity football in 2011. The Friars enjoyed major success last season, winning their first nine games, earning the HCIAA American Division championship. However, the Friars’ dream season came crashing down in the opening …

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When Wilber Valdez took over the Union City High School football program last year, he wanted to make sure that the Soaring Eagles reached new heights. They did, qualifying for the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group IV playoffs and shocking everyone by defeating top-seeded West Orange, 19-14, in the first round. The Soaring Eagles …

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The 2010 high school football season represented a return to glory for the Bruins of North Bergen. The Bruins suffered through a less-than-memorable 2008 campaign in which they posted a totally uncharacteristic 3-7 record and failed to qualify for the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group IV state playoffs for the first time since 1987. …

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Bruins look to build on their return to state playoffsNorth Bergen aims for another trip to Group IV glory”

As he begins his seventh season as the head football coach at Hoboken High School, Lou Taglieri knows that he has to put last year’s 7-3 campaign behind him and his program. “We have to put in a box and put it on the shelf,” Taglieri said. “We don’t return a lot of people, so …

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Rebecca Delbert had the fortune to meet Bill DeFazio right before the legendary high school girls’ basketball coach lost his battle to pancreatic cancer last November. “I went to a basketball camp and I met Coach DeFazio there,” said Delbert, who will enter Marist High School as a freshman in the coming weeks. “He was …

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Remembering DeFazio in form of a scholarshipAnd: Weehawken, WNY seriously consider Formula One auto racing”

The calendar reads August and for St. Peter’s Prep head football coach Rich Hansen, that’s all that matters. Hansen can’t even begin to think about December and what possibly lies ahead. “We’re focused on what we have in front of us now,” Hansen said as he prepares for his 26th season as the head coach …

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Prep gears up for another great football campaignNot even thinking about national power that ended Marauders’ season last five years”

When Mariusz “Mark” Kolodziej first opened his businesses of Hudson Bread and Breadman Café on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, he quickly took a strong hold of the baking goods industry in Hudson County. Kolodziej then expanded his businesses to include the boxing game, first opening the Global Boxing Gym next to his bread and …

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