08.16.2011 Sports Flashback: Smit swims to national mark This story was originally published Nov. 25, 2005, one week after Mount Sinai swimmer Julia Smit set the national public high school record in the 200-yard individual medley: Julia...
08.15.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #4: New York had never seen a wrestler like Jantzen Of all the moves, all the skills and all the talents that Jesse Jantzen acquired over the course of his great wrestling career, it might come as a surprise...
08.15.2011 Sports Flashback: Jantzen grabs hold of record fourth NY title The following article appeared in The News-Review on March 9, 2000, after Shoreham-Wading River High School senior Jesse Jantzen became the first wrestler to win four New York State...
08.14.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #5: For McCoy, wrestling was love at first sight Kerry McCoy never planned on wrestling. Growing up in the Longwood School District, he couldn’t wait until he reached seventh grade and could play on a school basketball team....
08.13.2011 Sports Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame a shrine to area legends What began as a traveling museum has transformed into a permanent home filled with exhibits to commemorate the greatest athletes in Suffolk County’s history. The Suffolk Sports Hall of...
08.13.2011 Sports 20 Greatest Athletes: By the numbers After a one-day hiatus, the 20 Greatest Athletes in area history resumes with the Top 5 beginning Sunday. Here are some fun facts we’ve come up with for the...
08.12.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #6: Sailing life a good one for Shelter Island’s Clark Amanda Clark was still only a toddler when she received her first sailing lesson while on a boat with her parents, Dennis and Ellen. She stuck her hand in...
08.12.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Area waters have produced some great competitors Shelter Island sailor Amanda Clark, who competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in China, isn’t the only standout athlete to come from eastern Long Island waters. That really shouldn’t...