06.20.2018 Sports Sports Desk: A sportswriter’s farewell Photos were snapped Friday evening at the 23rd Empire Challenge senior all-star football game. Not all of them, however, were focused on the action on the field at Hofstra...
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...
11.17.2017 Sports Sports Desk: SWR’s remarkable run reaches an end Any way you looked at it, this was going to be a tough haul for the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team. The Wildcats went into this season hoping...
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...
04.08.2017 Sports Sports Desk: The Mahon Cave will take your breath away “WE INTERRUPT THIS FAMILY FOR BASEBALL SEASON.” So reads the quaint sign, decorated with a baseball and bat, hanging by the front door of the Mahon family residence. It...
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...
