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It’s almost unfathomable to conceive that Hudson County would lose two athletic legends in the span of just 10 days. It’s almost even more unbelievable that the two legends would come from the very same family. On July 30, we bade farewell to George Waddleton, the first-ever 1,000-point scorer in St. Peter’s Prep basketball history. …

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The biggest decision of Kyle Anderson’s young life is exactly now one month away and the St. Anthony High School basketball standout is feeling a wide range of emotions. “I’m nervous, excited and worried,” said Anderson, the Hudson Reporter Boys’ High School Basketball Player of the Year last year who led the fabulous Friars to …

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Anderson anxiously awaits big decision daySt. Anthony standout narrows down college choices; will choose on his birthday next month”

Ever since word came out that local boxing hero Arturo Gatti was found dead in a San Paolo, Brazil hotel room a little more than two years ago, a death that Brazilian officials later deemed as a suicide, his manager, Union City boxing guru Pat Lynch, vowed to prove that Gatti did not take his …

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Investigation to prove that Gatti’s death was not suicidePrayers for Waddleton; Jersey City’s Jackson back in Panthers’ camp”

After the Jersey City/Pershing Field Yankees 18-and-under team lost in the finals of Major League Baseball’s RBI (Reviving Baseball in the Inner-Cities) Northeast Regional to a team from Greater New York in Yankee Stadium last week, head coach Alberto Vasquez was convinced that the season was over. His team lost a heartbreaker in the bottom …

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Jersey City/Pershing Field gets reprieve in RBI World Series”

What began as a simple hobby for a Jersey City artist has now morphed into a big-time career, one that will soon see him creating a sports mural on a yet to be determined wall location in the city. Paul Lempa, who was a former standout basketball player at St. Peter’s Prep and New York …

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Jersey City sports artist Lempa gets commissioned to create mural”

Although he’s still a very young man who hasn’t reached his 30th birthday just yet, Danny Suarez is an experienced veteran when it comes to playing for and coaching highly competitive summer baseball teams. After all, when Suarez was a youngster, he played for the Jersey City Stars of Tomorrow program that has now spawned …

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On to Minnesota for Jersey City RBI U-15 teamTalented group defeats Greater New York squad at Yankee Stadium for World Series berth”

John Pein had put his athletic career behind him. The Secaucus native and former Hudson Catholic two-sport standout (baseball and hockey) was content with his new life as a seventh-grade math teacher at North Bergen’s Lincoln School. “The truth is that some people don’t even know about what I did in sports,” said the 34-year-old …

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Secaucus native Pein headed to Caldwell College Hall
Mourning the passing of Waddleton, Bastek; Hoboken’s finest in action”

John Conroy knows that the challenge ahead won’t be easy. The North Bergen native and former St. Peter’s Prep standout two-way lineman has taken over the head football coaching reins at Ferris High School, replacing Rich Glover, who had a tumultuous 1-8 season in his only year at the school. “It’s definitely going to take …

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Conroy takes over football coaching at FerrisFormer Prep standout and long-time assistant replaces Glover”

Massimo Forte knows what it takes to develop a championship-style Little League baseball team. After all, the veteran Hoboken Little League coach and manager was the architect of the 2005 and 2006 Hoboken Little League teams that captured District 7 championships. So when Forte was selected to manage the Hoboken 9-and-10-year-old All-Stars this year in …

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Hoboken 10s win District 7 title; WNY American falls in Section 2 finale”

Local boxing trainer Butch Sanchez called it “the biggest disappointment of my life.” The Hoboken native, who trains a stable of Peruvian native boxers who now reside together in North Bergen, was busy selling tickets for a card featuring three of the four North Bergen fighters in Paterson, a card that was supposed to be …

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Boxing card featuring NB fighters canceledHill signs with Redskins; Anderson set for national ESPN/RISE game in L.A.”