Just spent a little time at New Rochelle. I must say, my brain hurts.

The two-time Class AA champs went through a full-squad walk-through of the seemingly hundreds of defensive formations, adjustments and reads they use. Watching it was like being in a hospital as the chief of medicine led rounds with the intern doctors.

They went [...]

We had pretty extensive coverage of the first day of football camps yesterday in the Journal News.

I wrote about how the goals and expectations at Eastchester are dramatically different this year compared to last.

Harold Gutmann went over to Nyack and learned about a team that returns just about every key player from last year's 5-4 [...]

I got to Rye this afternoon just in time… just in time to watch the field hockey team practice.

Between writing my story for tomorrow's Journal News and a slight problem with my home renovation, I got sidetracked this afternoon and didn't get up to Rye in time for the end of practice.

I will tomorrow, I [...]

As I walked over the bridge to Mount Vernon's practice field this afternoon and up the hill, coach Ric Wright yelled out to me:

"C'mon Kev!" he said as he threw his hands up. "You couldn't give me one day!"

"Sorry coach," I said. "I had to make sure you were actually here."

The Knights were there, about [...]

I just left Mount Vernon a little while ago. A lot going on there, which I'll post in a little bit.

If you're on break and are looking for something to read (other than the active comments section of this blog), check out my story today on Carmel lineman Chris Watkins.

To me, Watkins was the best [...]

There's no debating who the happiest man on a football field was today. And he's got good reason.

I caught up with Tuckahoe coach John D'Arco at practice this morning. D'Arco has coached for over 30 years,most of which was at Eastchester. In that time he's seen some of his [...]

I wasn't at practice this morning for two minutes before a coach made the statement I've repeated to myself for the last three years.

"This isn't really the first day anymore," Eastchester coach Fred DiCarlo said. "Every team has been working out and going to camps and 7 on 7s. This has become anti-climatic."

You have to [...]

Ahhh. Finally.

As I say every year, today is my favorite day of the year in high school sports. It's the first official day of preseason football camps. Yeah, I know every team works out year-round and today is almost an arbitrary starting point. But there's still something special about waking up this morning and stepped [...]

As I'm sure you already know we released this year's Super 11 honorees this afternoon in the first ever live online broadcast. The recipients were:

Rob Lombardo, Somers
Maurice Easterling, Stepinac
Darlos James, Iona Prep
Ian Solomon, New Rochelle
Justin Autera, Mahopac
Mike Fasano, North Rockland
Anthony Davis, Nyack
Kyle Ramalho, Rye
Devonte Brailsford, Dobbs Ferry
Chris Alfano, Iona Prep
James Brundage, Ossining

I'll embed the link [...]

The long-discussed transfer of quarterback Anthony Gentile from Iona Prep to Tuckahoe has finally become official.

It confirmed today by the Tuckahoe coaching staff, which is thrilled over having one of the area's top quarterbacks falling into their laps.

Gentile is a strong-armed 6-foot-1 senior who decided to leave Iona Prep during Champions Camp at New Rochelle. [...]