The New York Islanders have been awarded the right to develop Belmont Park, according to people close to the negotiations. A formal announcement will take place at a news conference on Wednesday, to be held at the Belmont racetrack. Gov. Mario Cuomo is slated to attend. The Islanders were selected in a two-way contest with the New York City Football Club, a soccer franchise owned by Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees.
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By Timothy Denton
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12/19/17
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“When I’m running through the tunnel,” Lindsey Tighe said, “I’m just thinking about what Stephen Siller did, thinking about all the firefighters” that ran along the same route, on their …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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10/5/17
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Of the 18 honorees inducted into the New York State High School Girls Soccer Hall of Fame earlier this month, three of them once reigned at South Side High School, helping to build the avid soccer culture that exists in Rockville Centre.
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By Ben Strack
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9/21/17
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The Rockville Centre Soccer Club ran its annual two-week clinic, Kids Teaching Kids, from July 17 to 27, during which 35 teenagers and young adult players worked with 4- to 8-year-olds on their …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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8/3/17
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The Lynbrook/East Rockaway Soccer Club defeated Massapequa to win the New York State Cup championship on June 4. With the win, it advances to the Region 1 championship on July 4 in Virginia.
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By Caroline Ryan
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6/29/17
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The Buffalo Avenue field in Freeport will soon be filled with cheering, referee whistles and hundreds of soccer cleat footprints. In anticipation for another summer season, coaches and board members …
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By Julie Loney
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6/22/17
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The Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association has named Bessie Lamonica, a longtime figure in the Oceanside soccer community, June’s Personality of the Month.
Lamonica has been involved in …
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By Will Stern
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6/13/17
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Dina Grossman Case, Traci Sofsian Maier and Kim Conway Haley did it all on the soccer field together. Each was instrumental in South Side High School’s first-ever state championship nearly 30 years …
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By Brian Kacharaba
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3/22/17
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Christine Newins, a 52-year-old Levittown resident, cannot remember Jan. 17 — the day she was hit by a car while jogging on the Pacific Crest Trail in Carlsbad, Calif. Chris Newins, her husband, …
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By Julie Mansmann
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3/21/17
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Eighty soccer squads from around Long Island gathered at Coleman Country Day Camp in Freeport last weekend for the 50th annual Rudy Lamonica Memorial Indoor Tournament. The event, which featured 17 teams from Oceanside alone, honors a teenage soccer star who died of bone cancer in 1970.
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By Ben Strack
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1/24/17
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