Champions Of A Different Color
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 No Comments »Two deserving teams with different pedigrees were crowned champions tonight at the FCIAC boys and girls soccer finals at Norwalk High School. Staples, with a starting lineup that featured just three seniors but made up for its youth with a high ...
Baskin’s Decision on Hold
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 No Comments »One of the biggest mysteries of the scholastic sports season is which college will get the services of Tevin Baskin, Trinity Catholic's outstanding basketball player. Baskin originally said he wanted to make a decision by November, before practice starts. Yesterday, at ...
You Can’t Spell Class Without S-H-S
Friday, October 24th, 2008 No Comments »When the Trinity Catholic High School volleyball team traveled to Ridgefield on Wednesday, it was surprised to discover some extra supporters in the stands. The members of the Stamford High School team. In this era of selfish, crass behavior in scholastic sports, ...
Time For a New Football Schedule
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »Ever since the Week 5 games controversy developed, I have spent countless hours on the phones with FCIAC football coaches and administrators. Beyond trying to find out who was at fault for the miscommunication, I think the one thing that ...
The Week (5) That Will Not Die
Monday, October 20th, 2008 No Comments »In 26 years as a sportswriter, I can't ever recall a story where I have received such contradictory information as the controversy over just one of the FCIAC's games in Week 5 counting in the league standings. It resurfaced again ...
Football Controversy Heating Up Again
Friday, October 17th, 2008 No Comments »The furor over all but one of last week's Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference football games not counting in the league standings is mounting again. One coach, who asked not to be identified, told me this morning that in the preseason ...
FCIAC Football Controversy
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 No Comments »A controversy pitting football coaches against administrators has arisen in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference over the past few days with the news that last week's games, except for one, will not count against league records. John Kuczo, the league's ...
City Stickers
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 No Comments »Tonight was a disappointment for Stamford High School and a celebration for Westhill at Boyle Stadium. The Vikings won their first city field hockey title since 2004 with a 3-1 victory. The biggest winner of all, however, was fans of the ...
Is There Anybody Out There?
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 3 Comments »Overtime is just a few weeks old, and as a new blogger it is hard to tell how much of an audience there is out there. The blog has received very little publicity (thank you good people associated with Staples ...
And Then There Were Two
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 No Comments »Westhill's 31-21 win over Wilton today leaves just two remaining unbeaten teams in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference: New Canaan and Darien. More surprising than the Vikings' win was the ease with which it came. Against a defense that had ...