08.18.2011 Sports Complete List: The 20 Greatest Athletes in area history The following is Times/Review Newsgroup’s complete list of the 20 Greatest Athletes in area history: [nggallery id=158 template=galleryview] No. 20 Ryan Creighton and Al Edwards, Greenport basketball No. 19...
08.18.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #1: ‘Big Ed’ was Riverhead’s humble Giant The inscription on Ed Danowski’s headstone at St. Isidore Cemetery in Riverhead is a simple one. Like so many of the grave sites at the Reeves Avenue resting place,...
08.18.2011 Sports Who may crack the top-20 list in the future? The 20 Greatest Athletes list is complete, but as with any ranking, it can be continually evolving as more athletes come up through each local school. For all but...
08.17.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #2: A storybook journey to the major leagues for Osik A sparse crowd of 16,088 filtered into the big ballpark in Queens on a cool Friday night in early April of 1996. Having won two of their first three...
08.17.2011 Sports Flashback: SWR Baseball Takes State Championship The following article appeared in the June 11, 1987 issue of The News-Review after the Shoreham-Wading River High School baseball team won the New York State Class B championship....
08.17.2011 Sports Top 5 Shoreham-Wading River Athletes Shoreham-Wading River baseball coach Sal Mignano has coached the varsity team since the program’s beginning more than 30 years ago. Here, he gives his list of the top five...
08.17.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Local minor leaguers dream of life in ‘The Show’ In minor league baseball, it is important not to get stuck in one town or on one team for an extended length of time. You want to keep moving...
08.16.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #3: Julia Smit among America’s greatest swimmers So many thoughts raced through Julia Smit’s mind when presented a seemingly impossible question — What’s the proudest moment of your career? Only 23 years old, Smit has traveled...
