Basketball Archives - Riverhead News Review

02.09.2020 Sports

Boys Basketball: Sharpshooting Hauppauge takes down SWR in playoff opener

Bricks were laid when the building that houses Hauppauge High School’s neat, second-floor gym was built. However, bricks weren’t a part of the foundation for the Hauppauge boys basketball...

01.30.2020 News

Charles Manning’s long journey to LSU began in Riverhead

There was a time, in the early months of his senior year of high school, when Charles Manning was unhappy. Monday through Friday, his alarm would go off around...

01.16.2020 Riverhead School District

Riverhead to begin Unified Sports hoops team to create new opportunity for special ed and general ed students

A competitive basketball program coming to Riverhead High School will “bridge the gap” between special education and general education students, according to Brian Sacks, the district’s director of health,...

08.13.2019 Sports

Basketball: Stop the violence, grab the green

For all the varied colored shirts worn on the Horton Avenue Park basketball court, the color that stood out in the end was green — as in cash. Show...

03.24.2019 Columns

Column: The madness of March can be cruel

From my couch 240 miles away from Binghamton, my heart pounded with anticipation Saturday. I spent several years at the beginning of my career covering sports, and few games...

08.13.2017 Sports

Basketball: Stop the Violence tourney in Riverhead fosters goodwill

Stop the violence, bring on the hoops. That has been the mantra of the Stop the Violence Basketball Tournament for 11 years. The effort to stamp out violence through...