SPRINGFIELD, NJ — In one of his classic works, “Piers Plowman,” written around 1360, poet William Langland said that “patience is a fair virtue.” Roman historian Cato the Elder and the Latin poet Prudentius, among others, have also been credited with coining the phrase. What do these words actually mean? Perhaps that the ability to […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Denied an opportunity last year due to the pandemic to attempt to join Brearley (2006-2011) and Roselle Park (1997-2003) as the only wrestling teams to win the county championship seven straight seasons, Cranford is still hoping to win the county title for the seventh consecutive time. While COVID-19 pinned down last year’s […]
UNION, NJ — A key cog to the renaissance of the once-again mighty Union Farmers, All-America selection Davison Igbinosun, one of the most sought-after defensive backs in the country, on Saturday, Jan. 8, chose to continue his scholastic football career at the University of Mississippi. Igbinosun chose Ole Miss over Kentucky, Rutgers and Tennessee. Igbinosun […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Basketball teams can’t wait to play that first game in December, the week before the holidays, after a long first month of practice. Because COVID-19 put Cranford on hold all of last week, it must have seemed like a trip back to the preseason for the Cougars, who got five games in […]
KENILWORTH, NJ — The game plan for this year, drawn up as so many X’s and O’s on a chalkboard, has Kenilworth’s David Brearley High School Bears boys basketball team looking toward the future, while evaluating its prospects in the present. “We’re trying to build for now from the bottom up,” second-year head coach Ryan […]
UNION, NJ — To say that the Union Farmer wrestlers are anxious to get on the mat and rock and roll would be an understatement. If all worked out according to plan after press time, Union was to host Kenilworth’s David Brearley High School, for its first match of the season, at its smaller gym […]
SUMMIT, NJ — It took nearly three minutes before the Hilltoppers lit the scoreboard. It took nearly five before Summit made its first field goal. Although the Hilltoppers did not fill the hoop immediately, they were just warming up. Sometimes the knockout punch can be delivered early on. Summit used the first quarter to pound […]
UNION, NJ — If all went according to plan after press time, then the Union Farmers finally found themselves involved in a real game before 2021 turned into 2022. Hit with COVID-19 to start the season, the Union girls basketball team was scheduled to play its first game on Wednesday, Dec. 29, against Montclair in […]
SPRINGFIELD, NJ — One of the most successful girls basketball teams in Union County a year ago has the talent returning to continue that success this year. The Jonathan Dayton High School Bulldogs return five prominent players from last year’s squad, which went 11-1 and concluded with a 10-game winning streak. Perhaps the best part […]
CRANFORD, NJ — In the first quarter of their season opener on Saturday, Dec. 18, Cranford could do almost no wrong. The Cougars found that the best way to get over possible first-game nerves would be to shoot almost 50 percent from the floor, going on a 13-0 run to quickly begin separation and to […]