08.11.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #7: A love of punting carried Rick Donnelly into NFL As a running joke, Mitch Wolman and some of his close friends who grew up in Miller Place will test their knowledge of one another with trivia. A recent...
08.11.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Local football players learned just how tough the NFL can be All across America this fall thousands of boys will strap on shoulder pads and helmets as they begin a new season on the football field. They’ll dream of one...
08.10.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #8: Mersereau made most of opportunity There was Dennis Byrd this past January at the New York Jets’ hotel in Rhode Island on the eve of what head coach Rex Ryan called the franchise’s biggest...
08.10.2011 News Working for Chargers a labor of love for Riverhead native It was a long, twisting road that led Ed McGuire from the ball fields of Riverhead High School to a high position as a National Football League executive. That...
08.09.2011 Sports Greatest Athletes #9: Ferraro brothers made it together Their gloves are different. That’s the quickest way to tell Chris and Peter Ferraro apart as they skate around the rink, teaching at one of their summer hockey camps....
08.08.2011 Sports Greatest Athlete #10: Speed brought Wegert to the NFL In Riverhead back in the mid-1950s, it was easy to know when Ted Wegert was in town. All one had to do was look for his flashy car, either...
08.08.2011 Sports Flashback: Riverhead Rips LaSalle In 42-6 Gridiron Rout This story was originally published in the County Review on Nov. 10, 1949 days after Ted Wegert led the Waves with five touchdowns in a game: A favored LaSalle...
08.08.2011 Sports Best of the Rest: Mattituck tennis coach was a Georgetown hoops legend The basketball courts at Forest Park in Queens were not much different than many other basketball courts in New York City. They had four baskets (with no nets), a...