With losses in their first two games and a visit from winless Canisius looming Saturday afternoon on Remsen Street, the St. Francis men’s basketball team did provide some good news for its fan base yesterday.

Coach Brian Nash announced that the Terriers have signed 6-foot-6 power forward Mike Glover to a national letter of {read more...}

They’ve been the top two teams in the Public School Athletic League Championship Division football standings virtually all season.

But if the top-ranked Fort Hamilton Tigers and No. 2 Erasmus Hall Dutchmen are going to square off in a winner-take-all Brooklyn battle for gridiron supremacy at Midwood Field later this month, they’ll have to survive one of the great Final Four weekends in recent P.S.A.L. history.

Unbeaten Fort Hamilton (11-0) spotted ninth-ranked Lincoln (7-4) {read more...}

Déjà vu All Over Again for Jets’ Football Fans

It's Groundhog Day for the Jets as the promise of a 3-0 start has been crushed under the weight of a skid that has seen them lose five of their last six and landed them in their annual, mid-season playoff position; outside looking in. This year's version of the "Same Old Jets" could be a little more interesting than its predecessors, though, as the characters are far more compelling. {read more...}

It was another 5-4 week for the Locks as they continue to produce winning Saturdays; albeit by the closest of margins. Once again, however, it was the vaunted Gil Lock of Ryno Rife Sports Handicappers who dragged down the rest of the team. But for his {read more...}

Cyclones general manager Steve Cohen said it best during yesterday’s official announcement that former Mets second baseman Wally Backman, a key member of New York’s World Series championship team in 1986, would be the new manager on Coney Island next summer.

“Brooklyn and Backman were made for each other.� Cohen said.

After five years of managing in virtual obscurity in the independent leagues following an abbreviated and well-publicized four-day stint as skipper of the Arizona Diamondbacks in November {read more...}

Brooklyn native and former Banneker Academy star Jaytornah Wisseh is making an early bid for Northeast Conference Player of the Year honors.

But the rest of the Long Island University Blackbirds had trouble keeping up with their leader during Friday night’s season-opening 83-70 loss at St. John’s in Jamaica, N.Y.

“I think Jaytornah Wisseh is a star that really dictated the tempo of the game and kept us in it,� LIU coach Jim Ferry said.

Wisseh, a senior {read more...}

But the Brooklyn native had the Terriers in position to win before a late run by Brown handed the Franciscan school a tough 68-64 defeat on Remsen Street last Friday night.

Newton went 1-for-7 from the floor en route to a three-point, three-assist, three-turnover performance that was nearly wiped clean when the 6-foot sophomore and junior Akeem Bennett made back-to-back layups to give the Terriers a 55-52 lead with just over six minutes to play.

But the visiting Bears responded with a decisive 8-0 burst to quell the crowd of 743 at the {read more...}

The 29-year-old preaching pugilist is fighting for much more than a title belt, however.

“Boxing transcends the differences between the Arab nations and Jewish nation,� said Foreman, who trained in a Palestinian gym in Haifa before {read more...}

Who’s the fastest kid in the neighborhood?

It’s an age-old question among Brooklyn youths racing down the block, across the schoolyard, or in the case of Packer Collegiate’s Eddie Owens and Brooklyn Friends’ Kieran Newcomb, on the cross-country course at Bowdoin Park in Wappinger’s Falls, N.Y. on Nov. 21.

Owens and Newcomb were rewarded for their strong showings at last Sunday’s New York State Association of Independent Schools Cross Country Championships at Van Cortlandt Park, earning invites to {read more...}

“The ultimate goal is to make the NEC a premier conference. It can’t be just LIU,� Robinson said.

Better luck next year, coach.

The Blackbirds have not only continued their domination of the conference this season, but wrapped up the No. {read more...}

One such person is Bay Ridge resident Alex Ambotas, who took home four gold medals in sprint kayak from the 2009 World Masters Games, held in Sydney, Australia, over a late October weekend. He competed in the 50 to 55 age category.

“One of the reasons that I trained so hard for this race was {read more...}

From every indication given by nearly every local media outlet — including this column space — sophomore quarterback Wayne Morgan had virtually no shot of standing behind center for Erasmus’ playoff opener last Sunday afternoon against visiting Midwood in an all-Brooklyn first-round playoff matchup.

Hampered by a heavily bruised but not broken right wrist suffered during a regular season-ending loss at Totenville, the second-year signal-caller could have taken the Dutchmen’s first postseason contest off in order to heal for {read more...}

BAY RIDGE — “Today is like playing a fresh new season. It doesn’t matter what our regular season record was, all that matters is we play our hearts out because if we don’t win, there is no tomorrow,� said Xaverian soccer head coach Carlos Jaguande, as his team looked to win the first round of the playoffs against Archbishop Stepanic on October 28. Even with heading into this game with a 0-2 regular season record against Stepanic {read more...}