Fresh off a 2008-09 campaign that saw the Hofstra women’s basketball team more than triple its win total from the previous season, fourth-year head coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey sees an even brighter future ahead for the program after assembling one of the best freshman classes in the nation. more

Hofstra men’s basketball team was picked to finish sixth in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) but if its Nov. 17 performance at Connecticut, where the Pride nearly upset the nationally ranked Big East power, is any indication, head coach Tom Pecora’s squad may make those preseason prognostications seem way off come March. more

Elmont’s quest for back-to-back titles came to end with a sound defeat at the hands of Wantagh in a Nassau Conference II semifinal playoff game. more

For a third consecutive season Carey’s dream of a Conference II football title ended in the semifinals. more

It’s championship week for Nassau County High School football and all four No. 1 preseason seeds are alive and aiming for titles. more

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, recently resigned his post as coordinator of the Nassau County Boys' Basketball Committee because, he said, the Section VIII Athletic Council rejected a proposal of his to fine-tune the seeding process that ultimately determines teams' playing schedules. In 2006, Lerner was the architect of an ability-grouping system that determined a team's conference by its record. Previously, teams were assigned to conferences without much regard to their records. Rather, officials used what they called the "snake," in which teams were seeded and then laid out on a grid that wound back and forth in serpentine fashion. more

Hewlett’s Jay Iaquinta stresses special teams as much as any football coach in Nassau County and that’s where the difference came for the Bulldogs in last Saturday’s 10-6 victory over Sewanhaka in a Conference III first-round playoff game. more

Low attendance numbers at Belmont Park’s fall championship season have steeled the resolve of local legislators and activists bound and determined to see the racetrack turned into a major destination. more

Hewlett and Baldwin avenge regular-season losses to Sewanhaka and East Meadow, respectively, to advance in playoffs. more

For 32 of the 56 Nassau County high school football teams, the season continues into the playoffs. more