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By Elio Velez Every fight for middleweight boxing contender John Duddy is a new experience. The Derry County, Ireland born fighter who trains at the Irish Ropes Boxing Club in Arverne took his act on the road to Chicago last Friday night. More ...
By Elio Velez 1955 holds a special place for the former Brooklyn Dodgers. It’s the only year in the fabled history of those legendary teams of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Gil Hodges that won the World Series over their hated rivals the New York Yankees. More ... Youth Is Served As Young Fisheads Defeat Seniors Shilelagh Law performed at the Irish Festival after the game. The Rockaway Junior Fishead “Young Boys” Rugby Club showed up this past Saturday with something to prove, and prove it they did, handing the Senior Fisheads a 39-25 defeat. Wearing green and white jerseys emblazoned with the phrase “Prove It” on the back, the youngsters took it to the old timers wit More ... Thunder, Lightning Strike Down on RBVL Beachgoers By Mary Whelan There were dark skies, but the teams showed up to play. The rain came, but the teams hung out and were ready to play. The lightening started to strike, many times, so the games were called. John + Rocky made the call to Pier 92 and were more than accommodating to the teams who arrived much earlier t More ...
The 2005 All National Karate Championships was an overwhelming success for the World Champions Karate team of Rockaway. The 4000 athletes came from every state, Puerto Rico, and several other countries. The world champions’ team garnered 30 gold, silver and bronze medals. Special recognition plaques More ... St. Francis Classic Warms Up Basketball Courts By Keith Goldberg and Kevin Raphael The weather has been heating up and so has the action at the St. Francis Summer Classic. This year’s edition, the 21st, is one of the biggest Classics ever with 88 teams in 12 divisions, and approximately 1000 participants. Rain in late June and early July threatened to disrupt the schedule, but gam More ...
Seventeen-year-old Sharif Soliman, born and raised in Rockaway Beach and Broad Channel, was selected to be an assistant to New York City ice hockey head coach Craig Doremus in the Empire State Games in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on July 27, 2005. Sharif plays for the Long Beach Apple Core traveling hockey t More ...
The Rockaway Little League announced Chris McCabe as the first annual league wide most valuable player. McCabe, who is pictured holding a poster of the Yankees’ Gary Sheffield, had leadership qualities that are very important to a baseball team even if he is confined to wheelchair. Coach Tom Boggian... More ... Harbor Optics Win Little League Majors Harbor Optics won this year’s Little League Boys Majors Championship, defeating a very talented and well coached VIP team. VIP will be tough to beat next year. Harbor Optics was led all year by the all round play of Brian Doyle, J.P. Doyle, Joe Re, Will McGuire, Ryan Rayder, Matt Caspi, and Mike Smi More ... Dodgers 50th Anniversary Brings Focus To Brooklyn By Joe McDonald Sports Columnist Brooklyn Remembered – A Review With so many books on the Brooklyn Dodgers, there has never been one on their ultimate victory. More ...
By Elio Velez Every fight for middleweight boxing contender John Duddy is a new experience. The Derry County, Ireland born fighter who trains at the Irish Ropes Boxing Club in Arverne took his act on the road to Chicago last Friday night. More ...
By Elio Velez 1955 holds a special place for the former Brooklyn Dodgers. It’s the only year in the fabled history of those legendary teams of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Gil Hodges that won the World Series over their hated rivals the New York Yankees. More ... Youth Is Served As Young Fisheads Defeat Seniors Shilelagh Law performed at the Irish Festival after the game. The Rockaway Junior Fishead “Young Boys” Rugby Club showed up this past Saturday with something to prove, and prove it they did, handing the Senior Fisheads a 39-25 defeat. Wearing green and white jerseys emblazoned with the phrase “Prove It” on the back, the youngsters took it to the old timers wit More ...
The Rockaway Little League announced Chris McCabe as the first annual league wide most valuable player. McCabe, who is pictured holding a poster of the Yankees’ Gary Sheffield, had leadership qualities that are very important to a baseball team even if he is confined to wheelchair. Coach Tom Boggian... More ... Harbor Optics Win Little League Majors Harbor Optics won this year’s Little League Boys Majors Championship, defeating a very talented and well coached VIP team. VIP will be tough to beat next year. Harbor Optics was led all year by the all round play of Brian Doyle, J.P. Doyle, Joe Re, Will McGuire, Ryan Rayder, Matt Caspi, and Mike Smi More ... NHL Needs More Than Agreement To Court Jilted Fans By Michael Avallone Sports Columnist After posturing, bickering and finally simply not speaking, the NHL has ended it’s lockout after 300-some days and the 2,460 total games missed, not counting the postseason. And not a moment too soon, right? Well, sort of. More ...
The Sorrentino Recreation Center/ HealthPlus/ City of New York Parks & Recreation/ Police Athletic League baseball season continued another week of exciting little league action. The 9 – 12 years old Bantam Division consists of 4 teams, 15 members, 1 coach and 1 assistant coach per team. All games f... More ...
By Jennifer Blair The second annual Quentin B. Johnson memorial basketball tournament was off to a resounding success due to the generous support of Councilman James Sanders Jr and Julia Blair of Women and Children Family Enterprises Inc. More ... Big Apple Games Ongoing At FRHS Far Rockaway High School will once again host the 2005 Big Apple Games, which are open for all boys and girls from 13 to 19 years old. The festivities start on Tuesday, July 5 at 821 Bay 25 Street. More ... |
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