11.03.2022 Columns Sports Desk: After 30 years, it’s time to say goodbye Driving along a winding highway through the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York one memorable day in March of 1992, it occurred to me that the path of life...
12.29.2021 Sports Sports Desk: As life remained far from normal, sports lifted spirits in 2021 For all the historic trauma the world has been through with the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 represented hope. Hope that things will get better. Hope that life would move a...
01.03.2021 COVID-19 Sports Desk: Life in a pandemic isn’t fun and games The arrival of the COVID-19 global pandemic struck different people in different ways. For me, March 11, 2020, is the day that stands out in infamy. That was the...
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.