Sorrentino Competes In Millennium Queens Title Game



The Sorrentino Recreation Center will have three basketball teams each participate in the Queens championship on Saturday in Jr. Knicks Millennium Citi-Wide Basketball Tournament playoffs. The Sorrentino 10 and under co-ed team will play at home. The 11-13 and 14-16 teams will each play at Al Oerter Center in Flushing. The program is sponsored by Madison Square Garden in cooperation […]

Xaverian H.S. Swimming Team Completes Successful Season



The Xaverian High School Varsity Swim Team has just completed yet another successful season in which the team posted a 4-1 record in divisional meets. At the Varsity Novice Championships held at Lehman College, the swimmers posted some remarkable results and came home with several medals. Even more impressive was the fact that the team placed second among some very […]

Rockaway Outdoors/Tales From The Wheelhouse



As we move through March each day brings anticipation of April 15, the opening of Striped Bass season in our area. The bay seems to have no shortage of herring and if that’s any indication of things to come bass will be foraging and making their presence soon. I don’t know but there’s something about this time of year that […]

Open Basketball Tryout For People’s Games



The People’s Games is a new sports concept that offers athletes the opportunity to represent their cities in competition against other US cities in a battle to prove which city has the best athletes in various sports. The program will launch with a basketball competition between New York City and Los Angeles in a best-of-three series to be played in […]

Basketball Legend McGuire Honored

Former Rockaway Star Remembered At Luncheon

Two beloved New York and Madison Square Garden sports legends, former Knicks and St. John’s star and basketball Hall of Famer Dick McGuire and ex-Rangers and NHL publicist, hockey historian, author and Fordham alumnus John Halligan, will be remembered at the second annual Halligan-McGuire Irish American Good Guy Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, March 22, at Gallagher’s Steak House in New […]

Parks Department Holds Camp Registration



The New York City Parks Department has announced that registration has begun for their Parks Summer Camp. The Parks Department will provide 7 weeks of fun-filled days for children ages 6-13. Campers will go on trips throughout the five boroughs, participate in sports, fitness and outdoor adventure activities, and much more. Campers are supervised by mature, experienced CPR and AED […]

Tough Defense Sparks St. Rose Of Lima Win



St. Rose of Lima fifth grade boys are soaring in the CYO Basketball playoffs. The boys traveled to Jackson Heights to play Our Lady of Hope. Petiri Edmond “Puda” scored 25 points to help St. Rose to a 43-30 win. St. Rose took an 8 point lead in the first quarter. Our Lady of Hope in started coming back the […]

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