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DRAFT PROSPECT – Former St. Joseph University standout Ahmad Nivins of Jersey City has been traveling to practically every town in the country that has an NBA franchise as he prepares for the upcoming NBA Draft. Nivins, the former St. Anthony product, is considering the No. 51 prospect in the draft by ESPN.
TASTY TIDBITS 06-21-2009
Nivins doing the NBA tryout sojourn
Sad tale of Hoboken’s Canary; Prep’s Urbanovich retires

It’s safe to call Ahmad Nivins a traveling man. In fact, the Jersey City native has been bopping all across the country so much that he’s spending more time in airports than any place else. Suc...
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TERRIFIC TIGER – Snyder sophomore Zamir Thomas capped his brilliant track and field season by winning three NJSIAA sectional gold medals, earning three Group II medals and competing in three events at last week’s NJSIAA Meet of Champions.
Other Hudson standout track performances
Snyder’s Thomas, Prep’s Glass among best in the class

While the focus was certainly on the three local competitors who participated in the shot put event at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions last Thursday in South Plainfield, it would be so totally wrong ...
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NEW HAWK HOOPS COACH – Hudson Catholic President and Principal Rev. Warren Hall (left) welcomes his new boys’ basketball coach, highly respected Nick Mariniello, into the fold last week. Mariniello was the head coach at Bloomfield Tech for nine seasons, leading that program to four state championships.
TASTY TIDBITS 04/05/09 Hudson Catholic turns hoop hopes over to Mariniello
Former Bloomfield Tech coach and Hoboken resident to lead; Ling heads to Marist

After spending nine seasons as the head boys’ basketball coach at Bloomfield Tech, leading that program to storied, never-before-reached heights, Nick Mariniello decided to step down last year, ...
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American University guard Derrick Mercer
SCOREBOARD 03-22-09
Watching pupils ‘dance’ never gets old for Hurley
Three more St. Anthony products take part in NCAA March Madness

It more than likely began in 1981, when Mandy Johnson was a freshman guard at Marquette University, facing Evansville in the NCAA Tournament. A year later, it was Northeastern and Phil Robinso...
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FLYING TIGERS – The Snyder indoor track relay team of, from left, Daryl Keese, Mauricio Mitchell, Zamir Thomas and Jamonte Cooley finished second overall in the 800-meter relay at last week’s Eastern Championships and head to the United States Nationals next weekend at the New York City Armory.
TASTY TIDBITS 03-08-09
Snyder’s ‘Fleet Four’ heads to nationals
Relay team gives storied track program a return to glory

There was a time in the 1960s and ’70s where the Snyder High School track and field program was one of the most respected and feared in the state of New Jersey. People like Dave Law went on to w...
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COUNTY CHAMPS AGAIN – The Marauders of St. Peter’s Prep celebrate after winning the HCIAA Coviello Division championship at St. Peter’s College last Saturday, the second straight year that the Marauders earned the top prize. Photo by Mark Wyville.
SCOREBOARD 03-01-09
Prep wins second consecutive HCIAA Coviello basketball crown
Scenario totally changes one year later; first repeat since 1963

A year ago, the St. Peter’s Prep Marauders were the underdog darlings of the HCIAA Coviello playoffs. They had to win five straight games to make the playoffs as the No. 8 seed, then upset three h...
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Lincoln senior shot putter Samard Walker-Butler
CO-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK 03-01-09
Prep’s Glass, Lincoln’s Walker-Butler earn medals at indoor M of C

One is a freshman with a load of talent and a future brighter than the sun, moon and the stars combined. The other is a senior who has been scratching at the surface of greatness for the last two...
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Lincoln High School senior basketball standout Daquan Pettiford
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 02-15-09
‘Day-Day’ never misses a day
Lincoln leader Pettiford looking to take team to another memorable postseason

Daquan Pettiford doesn’t know how he acquired the affable nickname that is readily known by practically everyone throughout the hallowed halls of Lincoln High School. At Lincoln, the senior swi...
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FLEET FEET – Snyder’s Zamir Thomas poses at the bust of Henry Snyder, the long-time Superintendent of Schools in Jersey City and who the school is named after, after winning three HCIAA indoor track and field championships last week, earning Hudson Reporter Athlete of the Week honors.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 02-08-09
Snyder’s Thomas injects life into track program
Super sophomore is first Tiger speedster to win HCIAA titles in a decade

Although he participated in track and field when he was in eighth grade at Jersey City’s P.S. 24 two years ago, Zamir Thomas wasn’t interested in running around a track when he enrolled at Snyde...
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St. Dominic Academy senior runner Kristina Jimenez
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 01/25/09
SDA’s Jimenez a ‘track’ of all trades
Talented Blue Devil runner more than just runs

It was one of those things that just sticks to your mind. Veteran St. Dominic Academy track and field coach John Nagel vividly recalls the first meeting he had with his senior leader, Kristina...
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MIGHTY MARAUDERS – The St. Peter’s Prep wrestling team has jumped out to a 9-0 record, the best start in the school’s history and the first-ever state ranking. From left are Kevin Innis, Pat Cappiello, head coach Anthony Verdi, Emmet Gregory and Juan Carlos Velasquez.
SCOREBOARD 01-18-09
From tough times to state ranking
Prep wrestling program, once shut down due to impetigo outbreak, now among state elite

Two years ago, the St. Peter’s Prep wrestling program suffered a huge scare, when it was learned that there was an outbreak of impetigo among the Marauders, shutting down the entire program for al...
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Curious choice for coach
CREATE Charter School in Jersey City is going to institute football for the first time this coming fall, and who have they hired to be the first coach there? None other than Bill Sullivan , who w...
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