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91-39 Blowout Comes With A Lesson For Victors

by Melissa Bailey | May 23, 2013 4:07 pm | Comments (2)

High School in the Community’s undefeated basketball team hit nothing but net from the 3-point line—and got into hot water with the referees—in a high-scoring and high-tempered game against New Horizons.

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“Gentlemen & Women, Start Your Gravity!”

by Allan Appel | May 20, 2013 11:00 am

Marchela Corolla changed her Italian ices cart from last year for a shorter swifter model and nosed out rookie driver Andrew Jimenez in the first heat of intense competition in Morris Cove.

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Mob Squad Returns To Take On The Fusion

by Stacy Davis | May 20, 2013 8:55 am | Comments (1)

Hundreds of people packed Wexler-Grant School’s gymnasium to watch their favorite drill teams stomp their feet and succinctly move their arms to loud drum beats—as a renowned local team returned to take on newer challengers.

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Faith To Tennis Star: I’m cookiesocute_

by Paul Bass | May 13, 2013 1:34 pm

Faith McCallum plans to take the world’s best new young tennis player up on a “mentorship” offer—on Instagram, not Twitter.

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Lawmakers Laud Hoopsters, Speedsters

by Thomas MacMillan | Apr 16, 2013 12:10 pm | Comments (1)

Hillhouse High has the state’s best male basketball players and its fastest female runners. Aldermen congratulated both groups on Monday night.

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Firefighters Top Cops In Hockey Face-Off

by Chris Volpe | Mar 23, 2013 9:16 pm

The fire department won the New Haven “chief’s cup” back from the police in an annual charity hockey game at Ingalls Rink Saturday. The final score was 6-3; last year the cops prevailed. Above, U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal drops the puck for the annual Chief’s Cup at Ingalls Rink Saturday. Facing off for the teams are firefighter Scott Ferrie and Police officer DK Runlett.

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College-Bound Soccer “Family” Needs Bucks

by Thomas MacMillan | Mar 18, 2013 4:02 pm | Comments (1)

After six years as a tutor, soccer coach, and “older sister” to 13 immigrant and refugee boys, Lauren Mednick is ready to see the last four off to college—if she can raise $35,000.

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Smoky Joe’s Due

by Staff | Mar 8, 2013 1:12 pm | Comments (2)

He spent his sunset years on New Haven’s Marvel Road—after besting the Yankees in a Red Sox uniform. Now it’s time that “Smoky Joe” Wood (pictured) get his deserved ultimate resting place: the Hall of Fame.

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First-Place Finish

by Staff | Mar 3, 2013 4:38 pm

Stephen Pretak, 28, came in first place in Sunday’s ShamRock & Roll road race in New Haven.

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Season Opens For A Pseudonymous Crew

by Ariela Martin | Feb 28, 2013 1:51 pm

Scorn Muffin sighed with relief, as she looked at the progress she’d made from laying down green tape. She’d done it many times before; it has become a pre-game meditation ritual to get mentally and physically prepared.

Along with her fellow roller derby queens, they busily worked to transform an athletic hall into a roller derby rink, all within the span of an hour.

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