Students at Rockville Centre’s St. Agnes Cathedral School met Islanders defenseman Tom Hickey and his teammate Jason Chimera, as part of the hockey team’s tour of 10 schools on Nov. …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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11/24/17
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Bryan Blomquist may be retired from the Lynbrook Police Department, but he is still hard at work. He dedicates more than 40 hours a week to raising money for Long Island Sled Hockey Inc., an organization that gives people with disabilities the opportunity to play the sport for free.
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By Michael Smollins
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10/5/17
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A sold-out, pumped-up crowd celebrated as New York Islanders Captain John Tavares scored an overtime goal on Sunday to give the team a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in its preseason opener at NYCB Live’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale.
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9/20/17
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After years of local success in the roller hockey world, Rockville Centre resident Tim McManus seeks to help lead Team USA to a title at this summer’s International Ice Hockey Federation Inline Hockey World Championship.
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By Will Stern
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6/15/17
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Friends and family of Henry Andresen, a Valley Stream resident who died in Blessed Sacrament Church two years ago, held a fundraiser at Eisenhower Park on April 8 to raise money to fund and distribute automated external defibrillators to local churches that don’t have them.
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By Nick Ciccone
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4/19/17
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On March 4 from 7 p.m. to midnight, the Progressive School of Long Island will host its 12th annual Sports Party Fundraiser at Sportime Lynbrook on Merrick Road. Adults and children can enjoy a night of tennis, basketball, hockey, lacrosse and dodge ball. Tennis professionals will be available for instruction and pizza will be provided. The cost is $35 per person, or $75 per family. All proceeds will benefit a sister school in Caracas, Venezuela. For more information, contact (516) 868–6835.
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3/1/17
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When Oceanside High School graduate Evan Pivnick received a text from Bowling Green State University’s assistant athletics director for communications, it seemed unusually stern and concise. Pivnick, the student play-by-play announcer, was told to meet with the assistant A.D. at 2 p.m.
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By Ben Strack
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2/28/17
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The streets of West Hempstead seem like an unlikely birthplace of a sports team that was in first place in the National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association’s Division II last week. But it was just part of growing up for Jesse Gordon, Avi Marguiles and Moshe Genuth — West Hempstead residents who attend Yeshiva University and play on its squad, the Maccabees — the only all-Jewish team in their collegiate roller hockey league.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/21/17
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Sounds of skates gliding across the ice and sticks battling for pucks filled the air at Grant Park on Jan. 10, as players from a growing ice hockey league in Valley Stream faced-off in a scrimmage to celebrate the addition of a new varsity team.
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By Mike Smollins
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1/19/17
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Nassau County’s outdoor ice rink at Grant Park, 1625 Broadway in Hewlett, will open for the 2016-2017 season on Nov. 25.
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By Diana Colapietro
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11/21/16
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