09.10.2022 Sports Football: It’s a Funn day, with career-high 5 TDs Opening day was Funn day. The last name says it all. It’s hard to imagine Amari Funn having more fun than he did Saturday. The Riverhead senior ran for...
07.05.2022 Sports Football: Shay stepping down after 24 years as Riverhead’s coach Leif Shay once said — and one wonders how much of it was in jest — that shortly before he retires, he would step down as the Riverhead football...
11.06.2021 Sports Football: Riverhead’s remarkable season ends Future generations may not think much of it when they scan the year-by-year high school football records and see the 2021 entry next to Riverhead: 4-5. That is, unless...
10.24.2021 Sports Football: Longwood steamrolls Blue Waves The Riverhead football team may have the heart of lions, but they faced the Lions on Saturday. That was a problem. A big problem. It wasn’t anything tricky or...
11.07.2019 Podcasts Podcast Preview: Riverhead football heads to Longwood for playoff showdown Podcast brought to you by: News-Review sports editor Bob Liepa and editor Joe Werkmeister joined host Grant Parpan to talk about Riverhead football’s surprising season and to preview Friday...
09.08.2018 Sports Football: Wild start to the 2018 season for Riverhead The bleachers on the home side of Nick DeCillis Field at Newfield High School began to thin out as the big crowd at Friday night’s Division II season opener...
03.06.2017 News Riverhead school community mourns sudden loss of high school football star The Riverhead High School community was rocked Monday morning as word spread of the sudden passing of senior football player John Anderson.
11.28.2015 Sports Riverhead rings victory bell for ‘gentle man’ and mentor Speaking to a crowd of about 200 people outside Pulaski Street School Saturday, an emotional Riverhead football coach Leif Shay warned he might not make it through his remarks.