Tag: Jim Hague

It was the fourth fight in 2010 for Tomasz Adamek and the previous three were all solid victories, all steps up the ladder toward eventually gaining that elusive chance at fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. So it should have been no surprise whatsoever that the top heavyweight contender who trains regularly in …

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Adamek wins battle with MaddaloneMajewski, who trains in North Bergen, also wins; Huggins, Royster selected to MSG squad”

He had some of the most electrifying performances during the 2009-10 Hudson County high school basketball season, including a majestic 41-point outing against Memorial. He averaged nearly 19 points per game for one of the more surprising squads in the county, leading his Marist Royal Knights to 16 wins and a place of prominence among …

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Marist no longer everyone’s underdogLed by brilliant guard Williams, Royal Knights hope to be in hunt in county, state playoffs”

The 2010 Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team features several players who have earned the honor for a second straight season. North Bergen’s Peter Ramanand, Lincoln’s Ronald Butler and Ty Stevens, St. Peter’s Prep’s James Fox, Keith Lumpkin, Kevin Cosgrove and Savon Huggins, Secaucus’ Eddie Delgado, and St. Anthony’s Sylvester Wright and Jidamon Sparkman …

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After a 25-2 season that ended with a loss in the NJSIAA Non-Public B state title game to Camden Catholic, the Friars of St. Anthony are poised to make a little history this season. For one, the Friars will tip off the 2010-11 season next Friday night against Edison Academy needing just 16 wins to …

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St. Anthony looks totally loaded for possible state title runNew league officially formed with new leadership”

Before his team took on New Providence in the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state championship game last Saturday at the New Meadowlands Stadium, Lincoln head football coach Robert Hampton knew that his team had to play pretty much perfect football to knock off a perennial state playoff contender with a legendary coach …

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Lincoln’s dream dies hard in the MeadowlandsLions fall to New Providence, 21-8, in NJSIAA North 2, Group I finale”

It was hard for John Dunne to spin a positive light on a 20-point loss to the cross-state Catholic school rival in Seton Hall, but the St. Peter’s College head basketball coach tried his best after his Peacocks dropped a 69-49 decision at the Prudential Center Monday night. It was the fifth game in a …

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Franklin Walker was content being a college football coach in the late 1970s, working as an assistant coach at then-Jersey City State College with the immortal late Harry Massey. But in 1979, someone in the Jersey City Board of Education had the infinite wisdom to suggest that Walker take over the football program at Lincoln …

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Lincoln tries to recapture a piece of history in NJSIAA grid finaleFormer coach, current coach have special bond that lasts three decades”

Lincoln head football coach Robert Hampton is not like your typical gridiron mentor. He uses music references when talking about football and checks the astrological signs of his players on a regular basis. He’s definitely one of a kind. Over the five years that Hampton has guided the Lincoln football program, he’s also had a …

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Lincoln’s Goodwin handles host of rolesLions headed to state title game at Meadowlands, first time since 1981”