Direct Rays: Ossining Competes Like The Big Leagues, Headley Men Guide...
It would be sexist of me to suggest that the Ossining High girls’ basketball team play the game like a bunch of crazed girls, so I’ll just go ahead and say they play basketball like boys; ridiculously...
View ArticleDirect Rays: Just or Unjust, PV Boys Hoops Coach Ouster Wreaks of Bad Timing
There is probably nobody on this planet that has butted heads more with former Putnam Valley boys’ basketball Coach Ed Wallach than me: I reckon we’re just a pair of strong-willed alpha males who truly...
View ArticleDirect Rays: Former Mullet-Wearers Saddened by BIG EAST’s Last Stand as We...
Heck, there’s not much I remember about 1985. I know I was rocking the world’s best mullet at SUNY Oneonta, and set the non-fraternal record for most kegs at a house party on 16 Myrtle Avenue (legend...
View ArticleHen Hud Hoping McGuire Hoops Tourney Will Jump Start Program
The Hendrick Hudson High basketball program hasn’t been the lead in a Direct Rays column since my man Tim McNulty was hitting two clutch free throws against John Jay in the 1991 Class B quarterfinals,...
View ArticleThe Back Nine: Indoor Golf Year Round in Westchester County
Hey, I get it: It’s almost Christmas and the toughest guy to get a quality gift for is your hard-to-please dad. Maybe you have one of those relationships with your dad where you know you love him...
View ArticleUnbeaten Mahopac Remains atop Putnam/NWE Hoops Poll Panas Takes Somers Title;...
After a clear-cut No.1 Mahopac, we don’t exactly know where to go with this as we head toward the New Year and the Holiday Tournaments, including the marquee event of the season; the Slam Dunk affair...
View ArticleBoys’ Hoops Notebook
Put Valley Impressive in Slam Dunk Win When, and if, Putnam Valley senior F Jelani Bell-Isaac plays like he did in a 53-36 win over the youthful Yorktown Huskers last Friday night at the 15th annual...
View ArticleThe Back Nine Indoor Golf Center
Multi-sport, indoor recreational facilities are popping up all over the place, but none of them in the Westchester/Putnam County region are designed solely for the golfer, one of the more particular...
View ArticleDear World: We’re Sorry & United Against Racism
By Ray Gallagher I’m a proud Putnam County guy, through and through. Born and raised in the Bronx until I was nine, my roots were pulled from the heaving cement of 226 Naples Terrace and transplanted...
View ArticleMahopac Hoop Player Suspended for Rest of Season
What Happened to Innocent Until Proven Guilty? So the bigwigs who have been investigating the matter regarding a white Mahopac player’s alleged racial slur toward a black Carmel player on Jan. 7th...
View ArticleDirect Rays: Saddle up Mahopac; Dog & Pony Show Coming to Town, Again
Suspended Mahopac Hoops Player Hires Noted Civil Rights Attorney Well, I hope I’m not blowing this out of proportion, but it is my job to report the local sports and inject some opinion in this here...
View ArticleMahopac Rallies for One of Its Own at Relay for Life Sean’s Soldiers Raise...
You can say what you want and think what you want about Mahopac, but when push comes to shove nobody does it bigger or better than the town that just rallied like no other town in America did to help...
View ArticleQuintessential Three-Sport Star Shines Bright in Ossining
Jalay Knowles Never Settled for Good, She was Great – There’s Beyoncé and there’s Madonna and Cher… the one-named divas that have acquired status for their tributes to society via the genre of music....
View ArticleGrid Preview: Yorktown, Somers Eyeing Big Grid Prize in Class A Mahopac...
The wait is over, two-a-days are done, the dog-days sweat and the grueling roast of summer sessions will moderate some in the coming days, but the heat is on for Section 1 football teams, as the season...
View ArticleClass A Grid Notebook
No.4 Brewster to Host No.5 Yorktown in Juicy Quarterfinal No.9 Hen Hud Shocks Nyack, No.6 Somers Crushes No.11 Byram, Both Advance Quarterfinal Friday is upon us, and the matchups are both juicy and...
View ArticleBoys Hoops Notebook: Put Valley Guts out Lakeland Tourney Title over Carmel...
Class B Putnam Valley (2-0), by far the smallest school in the Carolyn Conroy Memorial Tournament at Lakeland High last weekend, conquered a pair of Class AA schools – Horace Greeley and runner-up...
View ArticleDirect Rays: Sarsen, Swertfager Recommence Winning, Stockpile Plaques Section...
There are only so many Halls of Fame in this world, and while they keep popping up at street-smart schools across the country they’re still pretty dang tough to gain admittance to; unless of course...
View ArticleRich Get Richer as Espinoza-Hunter Returns to Ossining
So the rich just got a little richer last week when four-time reigning NYS Class AA girls’ basketball champion Ossining High discovered that hoops sensation Andra Espinoza-Hunter transferred back to...
View ArticlePigskin Dependence! Football Junkies to Get Their Fix – 2016 Gridiron Preview...
The 2015 football season did not produce a single champion or even a championship-caliber outfit last fall, as the locals from the Northern Westchester/Putnam Examiner regions were shut out in...
View ArticleYorktown Trio Represent Best in Student Athletes
There is plenty to be admired about Yorktown’s terrific basketball season: A league title, 17 wins, a run to the Westchester County Center Final 4 and a lifetime of memories for Coach Kevin Downes’...
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