Tag: Jim Hague

A group of 20 or so older men stood behind their former mentor, leader, and basketball coach Tuesday afternoon as he prepared to coach his final game at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City. “Usually, when you get a group like this, it’s for a wake,” veteran McNair boys’ basketball coach Mike Reilly said, …

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End of an era at McNair AcademicVeteran basketball coach Reilly steps down after final game”

Maybe Marvin Williams was simply destined to be a standout basketball player. After all, the Marist High School senior has a hoop legacy running through his veins. His father, Marvin Sr., was a player at St. Anthony in the early 1980s. His cousin, Mandy Johnson, is a Hudson County Hall of Famer and was one …

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Marist’s Williams has a thousand reasons to be happyScores his 1,000th career point in upset win over Hudson Catholic”

It has been nestled right smack in the middle of Third Street in Downtown Jersey City, almost anonymously, certainly without fanfare. If you drove down Third Street off Jersey Avenue toward Grove Street and didn’t pay attention, chances are you missed it. It’s a small, three-story structure that doesn’t even have a bold sign out …

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St. Mary High School to close in JuneEnds a long-time Downtown Jersey City athletic tradition”

When Bria Smith entered St. Dominic Academy a little more than three years ago, she was already interested in playing basketball, but wasn’t exactly a polished product. “I started playing basketball in seventh and eighth grade,” said Smith. “I wasn’t exactly that good of a player.” SDA head coach Reggie Quinn believed that Smith had …

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SDA’s Smith develops into 1,000-point scorer”

“The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high…” — An excerpt from A.E. Housman’s poem “To An Athlete Dying Young.” Over the years, no local school has had to endure more tragic moments than St. Peter’s Prep. …

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Prep suffers through another tragedy in death of swimmer GiannoneUC’s Matias opts for Florida State over Rutgers”

When Bob Hurley started his now-legendary coaching career at St. Anthony High School in 1972, he could have never dreamed that he would be still on the Friars’ sidelines almost 40 years later to enjoy the 1,000th victory of his career. “It’s a number you can only reach after you’re doing it for a very …

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A thousand ways to enjoy a victoryCoaching legend Hurley secures 1,000th career victory”

The road to becoming the fourth North Bergen High School wrestler ever to secure the impressive 100-win milestone was not an easy one for senior Julian Quintero. In fact, Quintero has had to overcome his fair share of adversity in his life as a wrestler in order to reach the prestigious plateau, which he attained …

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North Bergen wrestler Quintero reaches fine milestoneCollects 100th victory after overcoming major adversity”

Tomasz Adamek will finally get his long-awaited chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. It was announced last week that Adamek, the 34-year-old former Jersey City resident who still trains regularly in Jersey City, has agreed to a deal where he will face one of the two Klitschko brothers in Poland in …

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Adamek will get title fight in SeptemberRemembering Weehawken’s ‚Big Laddie‘; Hudson Hall of Fame takes hiatus”

If you just closed your eyes at Hudson Catholic High School Tuesday night and dreamed of another era gone by, you could have sworn you were at Hudson during its glory days. The gym was packed, with the bleachers opened on both sides of the court. That was a rarity. The atmosphere was electric, the …

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A return to glory for Hudson’s HawksWin over St. Peter’s secures spot among local hoop elite”