In more than 25 years as a social studies teacher in Oceanside, Andy Morris has touched many lives -- his colleagues’, his students’ and the recipients of the various charitable efforts he has … more

With a handful of veterans and an influx of newcomers on a roster holding steady at 25, fourth-year coach Joe Kachuba has reasons to be excited about Oceanside's wrestling program. more

The first recruiting class of Molloy’s women’s basketball coach Tim O’Hagan will graduate in the spring, but first the Lions have some unfinished business to take care of this winter. more

Hofstra University president Stuart Rabinowitz announced this morning that its Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to eliminate the school's football program and will reinvest those resources into new academic programs and need-based scholarships. more

Fresh off a 2008-09 campaign that saw the Hofstra women’s basketball team more than triple its win total from the previous season, fourth-year head coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey sees an even brighter future ahead for the program after assembling one of the best freshman classes in the nation. more

Hofstra men’s basketball team was picked to finish sixth in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) but if its Nov. 17 performance at Connecticut, where the Pride nearly upset the nationally ranked Big East power, is any indication, head coach Tom Pecora’s squad may make those preseason prognostications seem way off come March. more

Led by a trio of doubles pairings, Oceanside claimed the top spot in Nassau Conference II-B girls’ tennis with a record of 11-1 and advanced to the county playoffs where it lost a first-round match to eventual champion Plainview-JFK. more

It’s championship week for Nassau County High School football and all four No. 1 preseason seeds are alive and aiming for titles. more

Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director, recently resigned his post as coordinator of the Nassau County Boys' Basketball Committee because, he said, the Section VIII Athletic Council rejected a proposal of his to fine-tune the seeding process that ultimately determines teams' playing schedules. In 2006, Lerner was the architect of an ability-grouping system that determined a team's conference by its record. Previously, teams were assigned to conferences without much regard to their records. Rather, officials used what they called the "snake," in which teams were seeded and then laid out on a grid that wound back and forth in serpentine fashion. more

Last Friday night’s Nassau Class AA girls’ soccer semifinal playoff game at Tully Park brought further proof of the old sports adage about how difficult it is to beat a team three times in one season. more