By Domenic Konareski Derek Jeter is one of the most polarizing players in baseball history and an undisputed great amongst Yankees fans. The old Yankee Stadium may have been ‘The House That Ruth Built,’ but at the same time it was also ‘The … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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By Bill Riccio, Jr. The West Haven sports community – one of the tightest-knit anywhere – sustained another body blow two weeks ago, with the sudden passing of Westie par excellence Michael Violano. “Vio” as he was called throughout his life … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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By Bill Riccio, Jr. High school athletics begins anew. The beginning of the school year has an important dividend – high school athletics. Tuesday night, the fall season of the school year opened for several sports. The football season, … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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By Bill Riccio, Jr. He could be difficult, sometimes almost impossible to reason with when his “Irish” was up. But there was no doubt what Ed McCarthy wanted was a fair shake for his team, which he called his “kids,” and was going to make his … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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By Bill Riccio, Jr The football season is winding down. The college season ended – almost – with the myriad of bowl games that started almost immediately after the league championships in the first week of December. The finale is next week, … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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When Exhibition Stadium was opened in West Haven in 1947, it was an interesting construct. More functional than beautiful, it was built by Maurice P. Quigley to be a home to the West Haven Sailors, a semi-professional baseball outfit that played … [Read more...] about My two cents By Bill Riccio, Jr.
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Maybe just maybe by the time this edition hits the newsstands, a final decision will be made about football in the 2020-2021 scholastic calendar. The continuing saga, a bad soap opera really, has dominated the local sports pages for the better part … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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The Wuhan Flu has made 2020 a time that will probably go down in history as the “lost year.” And, it didn’t have to be this way. More and more evidence is piling up that the “experts” in charge of places like the CDC used bad intel for their … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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By Bill Riccio, Jr. All eyes in the state’s high school sports world are looking to Cheshire this week. At stake is the fate of the fall sports season. In a story with few straight lines and meandering narratives, Connecticut Interscholastic … [Read more...] about My Two Cents
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While much of the working public looks to the next few weeks as vacation time – August being the month when many if not most take vacation – the coming of the end of July traditionally spells the end of the summer for this writer, as things begin to … [Read more...] about My Two Cents