Eight seniors from four Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn signed their National Letters of Intent Feb. 6 on National Signing Day to continue their football-playing careers in college. They each shined on the gridiron playing in the CHSFL and have earned the opportunity to showcase their skills at the next level, as […]
Six alumni of Cathedral Prep Seminary, Elmhurst, were inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame Feb. 2 as part of the 14th annual Mass and induction ceremony at Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston. The Class of 2013 brings the total amount of Cathedral Prep Hall of Famers to 77. While the Super Bowl was played the […]
On Feb. 3, the Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge, swim team finished second at the GCHSAA championships held at the Eisenhower Park Aquatic Center, East Meadow, L.I. The Bonnies entered the meet with the best record in Brooklyn and finished ahead of Staten Island rivals Notre Dame Academy and St. Joseph Hill. Archbishop Molloy H.S., […]
For 40 years, the cries of unborn children lost to abortion have been heard at the annual March for Life held in Washington, D.C. At this year’s march on Jan. 25, an estimated 500,000 anti-abortion advocates – the largest crowd in march history – traversed up Constitution Ave. through the snow to the Supreme Court. […]
The life of a Division I college basketball athlete is strenuous. The student-athletes split their time between practice, games, travel, mandatory workouts, classes and study halls. In that sort of lifestyle, it’s easy to focus solely on basketball and lose sight of what is really important in life. But at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, […]
The last name “Gallagher” appears quite often in the Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, track record book. Over the next four years, that will likely stay the same, but the first names are certainly bound to change. Twin sisters Jackie and Tessie Gallagher, 14, are freshmen on the Kearney track team. Their two older sisters, Kerri […]
When Brooklyn diocesan hero Mike Piazza retired after the 2007 MLB season, there was really only one question: Would he wear a New York Mets or Los Angeles Dodgers cap after being voted into the Hall of Fame five years later on the first ballot? However, following the vote of the Baseball Writers’ Association of […]
After finishing up their varsity basketball tenures at Archbishop Molloy H.S., Briarwood, three seniors on the Lady Stanners team will be continuing their playing careers in college. Forward Carolyn Gallagher and guards Amani Tatum and Alexa Dietrich have all signed National Letters of Intent to play at the next level starting this fall. The trio […]
In its over 100-year history, the NCAA has undergone extensive reforms since its early days, especially in forming conferences, acquiring lucrative sponsorships and agreeing on television deals. However, in the NCAA’s history, one practice has remained constant: Student athletes play for free. Each year, more than 400,000 student athletes compete on nearly 18,000 teams at […]
George Bruns was likely very good at keeping his own basketball statistics; he was a math teacher after all. In an interesting turn of events, Bruns, who was teaching at Msgr. McClancy M.H.S., East Elmhurst, at the time, was signed in the spring of 1973 by the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association […]
