Players from England, Ireland, Canada and from across the United States are in East Meadow this weekend to compete in youth Gaelic football and hurling tournaments.
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Mike Caputo
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7/30/10
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Updated: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:29 p.m.
Merrick’s 12-year-old Williamsport softball team, a.k.a. the "Merrick Madness," has won the New York State Softball Championship, defeating Garden City South 13-6 in Canastota, N.Y. on July 28, according to Bill Haddad, president of the Canastota Little League.
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David Weingrad
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7/28/10
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The RVC girls 9-10 year-old Williamsport Team defeated Lynbrook in the district championship softball game, 21-9, to complete a sweep to take home the District 30 title.
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7/28/10
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In the end, it was all decided by a single bite.
That was all that separated first-place face-stuffer “Munchin” Mike Longo, a Long Island native, and second-place Philadelphia native David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli in the 2010 National Cheese Steak Eating Championship at With Cheese Please in Rockville Centre on June 5.
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Alex Costello
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6/9/10
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Thirty-eight years after Joe Corea began his four-decade career as Calhoun High School's head baseball coach, he can still rattle off most of the names on his starting lineup from his very first year -–– 1972.
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Scott Brinton
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6/9/10
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Nassau Class AA two-event winner Kyle O’Neil and two-time runner-up Chris Boss helped South Side amass 49 points—good enough for fourth place out of 17 schools—in the county track and field championships at Mitchel Athletic Complex.
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Tony Bellissimo
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6/9/10
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The Calhoun girls’ varsity badminton team recently won the Nassau County Championship with a 4-3 victory over Great Neck South. The Calhoun girls finished the season with a 15-0 record –– and their second straight championship. Team Captain Christina Strezenec won the overall singles title, beating out all other Nassau badminton players in a two-day tournament. With this win, Strezenec became the only player in Calhoun history to win four county titles playing a varsity sport.
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5/21/10
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The cheese steak.
It's a greasy, cheesy sandwich that has always been synonymous with its hometown of Philadelphia. But New York is in a position to steal the title of the home of the best cheese steaks around when a shop in Rockville Centre hosts the National Cheese Steak Eating Championship on June 5.
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Alex Costello
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5/19/10
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The Rockville Centre 10-year-old boys baseball team won the 2009 District 30 Williamsport Championship by defeating Oceanside National 12 -1 and back-to-back games with Lynbrook that ended in 5-4 …
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10/8/09
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The Rockville Centre 11-12 year old girls softball team won the 2009 District 30 Williamsport Softball Championship, before losing to New Hyde Park in the sectionals. After defeating Long Beach in …
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9/17/09
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