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Summit Academy’s girls basketball team won its first citywide championship last month as it pulled away in the 4th quarter to win the 1A girls basketball playoffs over Manhattan’s School of the Future, 53-45. The game at Long Island University’s Steinberg Wellness Center was packed with fans from both teams. In the semifinals at Queensborough Community College, Summit beat No. […]
Bait & Tackle capped off an improbable run to win the championship of the Red Hook Locals Softball League on August 17. The league, which has been around since the 2000s, resumed play last year after a long hiatus while waiting for construction at the Red Hook ballfields to be completed. Fields 5-8 were closed in 2015 after toxins were […]
B61 defeated Bait & Tackle 29-7 in an impressive offensive display to win the championship in the Red Hook Locals Softball League. This was the first season softball was back in Red Hook after years without any leagues while everyone waited for the fields to re-open as they were shut down due to toxins in the soil. B61 had contributions […]
Kiana Brereton and Sky Castro, who are both 6’2″, are the second and third female Summit Academy Charter School athletes to receive Division One basketball scholarships. Castro, who started at Summit in the eighth grade, will be attending St. Peter’s College in Jersey City. Brereton, whose first year at Summit was when she was a freshman, will be going to […]
Thank you, Kobe, for all that you’ve done for my generation. Thank you for being someone millions of people looked up to, for inspiring us to be the best versions of ourselves. Thank you for your countless efforts to grow the game of basketball, being an advocate for the WNBA, and raising a daughter who wanted to be just like […]
Red Hook’s Summit Academy Charter School boys basketball team moved to 5-0 in the B division after they dominated Leon M. Goldstein High School for Science on their home court on December 11. Summit’s previous home game had been a three-point win over Adams Academy. They are 2-2 in non-league games. “We beat two A division schools,” Summit coach Phil Grant […]
Can you believe it’s been 20 years since there’s been an NBA Finals in New York City? The 1999 NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs, headlined by Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Tim Duncan and David Robinson, was the last time there was relevant basketball in The Mecca. For the past two decades – filled with nothing but disappointment, […]
With the US Open in town, it’s not uncommon to get caught up in the exciting matches and maybe pick up a racket yourself. Tennis players are considered “overhead” athletes who use their upper arms and shoulders in an overhead throwing or swinging motion – but the work and power actually starts in the lower body. According to sports health […]
Sports have always been a passion of mine, whether it was playing them growing up, catching recaps on the late night news or going to games in person. So whenever I have the rare chance to cover sports as a reporter, it’s always exhilarating. I’ve been lucky enough to see international Olympic medalists ice skate in Manhattan; speak with Team […]
When Formula E racing began five years ago, no one knew how internationally popular it’d become, let alone if it would be successful on the circuit. “We started from a blank page and electric racing [didn’t exist] at the time. So, we had to discover it and try to do something that was suitable for everyone,” Spark Racing Technology Commercial […]