04.02.2018 Sports Sports Desk: Welcome to Winter, Part II As I sit here at home, peacefully tapping onto my keyboard Monday morning, I glance up occasionally to look out beyond a snow-covered balcony and see what looks to...
01.01.2018 Sports Work We Do: Bob Liepa, Sports Editor My name is Bob Liepa, I’m the sports editor for both The Suffolk Times and the Riverhead News-Review newspapers.
09.30.2017 Columns Column: Tracing back his love of history I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been on this “All in the Family” kick lately. You know “All in the Family,” the popular sitcom from the 1970s...
09.07.2017 Sports Sports Desk: Previews offer challenge, satisfaction To say I have a love/hate relationship with sports previews would be way off the mark. At the same time, I cannot deny having mixed feelings when preview time...
07.22.2017 Sports Sports Desk: All-star interviews were an unprecedented annoyance I’m sorry to say it appears as if the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has jumped the shark.
04.16.2017 Sports Sports Desk: Springtime isn’t all fun and games Here’s an idea of what a recent series of days was like for me: Wednesday: Covered a boys lacrosse game. Froze. Thursday: Covered a baseball doubleheader. Froze. Friday: Covered...
09.05.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Entering a brave, new world in sports coverage I have often joked that I am well qualified to give a seminar to sports reporters on how to cover the blowout game. You know, a game that is...
08.13.2016 Sports Sports Desk: True confessions of an Olympicphile Friday, Aug. 5, was a big day. I had it marked down on my calendar for months, as if I might forget. LOL. No chance of that happening. How...
