Marc Maturo’s official sports column RCC ready to induct another Hall of Fame class Isidro “Papo” Cancel, who serves as a Town of Haverstraw councilman, and Suffern chief of police Clarke Osborn will receive service awards and join four former athletes for induction into the Rockland Community College Sports Hall of Fame on January 18. […]
Aces Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, both who played their best years together with the Atlanta Braves, and slugger Frank Thomas, each earned baseball immortality this week when they were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Maddux received one of the highest vote totals in history with 97.2 percent, while Glavine received 91.9 percent and […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Half –century doesn’t dim memories of aging batboy Vietnam veteran Pete Barbieri , a Spring Valley resident since June 1990, sits quietly at a table in the back of a county deli, and turns back the clock, to his days as a batboy at the old Yankee Stadium. Now […]
Houstons, Clintons and friends await hoops showdown The local collegiate basketball season resumes early in the new year with a showdown of sorts on tap in the eighth James Clancy Memorial Basketball Tournament, hosted by Dominican College on January 3-4. Coach Baxter Court at the Hennessy Center in Orangeburg is surely to be packed at […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column Szerlip, Nyack Wrestling Club linked hand in hand Jeremy Szerlip of Nyack has a passion for wrestling, but in this case it’s not the scripted pro variety but the much purer and brutally competitive scholastic and collegiate versions. Szerlip, who competed on the mats at Nyack High School with his […]
Marc Maturo’s official sports column. Leaving no Hall vote unturned: one scribe’s opinion Unlike last year when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) failed to elect anyone into the Hall of Fame in upstate Cooperstown, this year’s balloting is almost certain to produce at least one or two new inductees and perhaps three and […]