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1. Coach Bob Hurley Sr: a few heretical views of his success
(Sports/Professional)

BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ANALYSIS Bob Hurley Sr., vaunted long-time basketball coach at St. Anthony High School, Jersey City: More than 1,000 wins, 20-some parochial state championships, ...

2. Prime branding: New Jersey high school sports
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... by he nation's No.1 and No. 2 high school basketball teams – St. Patrick's of Elizabeth and St. Anthony's of Jersey City – do battle in a game that surpassed expectations. Like the state football championships ...

3. Could N.Y. Giants' Tiki Barber return to NFL?
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... two championships. Fassel told the New York Daily News he planned to call Barber to wish him luck on his comeback and to let him know he has a spot for him in Vegas if things don't work out in the NFL. ...

4. REVIEW: ‘That Championship Season’ looks back upon former glory days
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... www.thatchampionshipseason.com. ALSO BY MICHAEL SOMMERS REVIEW: Frances McDormand counts among ‘Good People’ REVIEW: Richard Thomas stars in ‘Timon of Athens’ REVIEW: ‘Hallway Trilogy’ leads to ...

5. Calling all New Jersey ‘Twifties’ to the first-ever ski and snowboard winter games
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... free. … Olympic skiers Ted Ligety, Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso of the U.S. Ski Team took top honors this week in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships at Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany. … Getting a ...

6. R.I.P. Gino Cimoli – you were a wonderful part of baseball history
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... I experienced the joy of three Pirate World Series championships and six Steeler Super Bowl victories. I attended the first game ever played by the Pittsburgh Penguins in Oct. 1967, and since then, the ...

7. Nancy Kerrigan’s brother Mark says failed alcohol test caused by cough syrup
(U.S./Nation)

... Skating Championships in the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Shane Stant assaulted Nancy Kerrigan with a club to her right knee. An investigation revealed fellow skater, Tonya Harding knew of the assault planned ...

8. Super Bowl XLV: Vince Lombardi wanted no part of the Super Bowl
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... NFL was the favored league of the sports media in those days with Tex Maule of Sports Illustrated leading the charge against the AFL. Green Bay won the first two championships and the football media dismissed ...

9. American figure skating stars coming to Atlantic City
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Evan Lysacek to appear with skaters who have compiled 18 Olympic medals and more than 60 world championships BY JERRY MILANI NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Champions from the past seven decades will be on ...

10. Holmdel Hornets and Pop Warner as deserving as Toms River in Little League
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... the Hornets defeat the North Rockland Raiders the team will earn a berth in the Pop Warner Football Championships, to be held at Disney's Wide World of Sports next weekend. Despite the storybook season ...

11. Vince Lombardi's players don't have a seat at the NFL lockout talks
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... two American Football League-National Football League championships (neither the Super Bowl nor the Lombardi Trophy existed in 1967 and 1968 in name). Lombardi came of age at precisely the same time the ...

12. I remember when the San Francisco Giants played in New York
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... and Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. When I do, I think of the Frank Sinatra song, "There Used to Be a Ballpark Right Here." In Los Angeles, the Dodgers have won five World Championships. In San Francisco, ...

13. Review: ‘Lombardi' plays to more than football fans
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BY JERRY MILANI NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Mention the name Vince Lombardi to most football fans, and thoughts of his gruff exterior, five NFL championships and Technicolor footage of his Packers teams ...

14. Chris Dudley lacking NBA support for gubernatorial run in Oregon
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... New York win two championships or would they vote on the Bradley versus Gore record? Jerry Lucas thought that Bradley's basketball pedigree was not going to sway voters. Bradley had been a college All-American ...

15. Report: NJSIAA indulged in questionable spending
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... such as boys' volleyball, or paid the greens fees for two years of NJSIAA golf championships. At its monthly committee meeting in June, the organization picked up the tab for an array of breakfast refreshments ...

16. Why no company has signed a naming-rights deal with the Giants and Jets
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... why not just football? Let's go to NCAA championships and let's launch the Capital One Cup." The Capital One Cup is a relatively cheap expenditure for the bank and a trophy with the bank's name will ...

17. Star power improving MLS on and off the field
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... check and live in the States. They're coming here to win championships." But even designated players like Henry and Marquez are finding out how difficult MLS can be. Marquez's turnover in midfield led ...

18. Ralph Houk ‘had the Yankees’ spirit’
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... pennants and two World Series championships in his first seasons as their manager, died Wednesday at his home in Winter Haven, Fla. He was 90. Houk also managed the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red ...

19. Millburn's Steve Herbst looks to build another sports network
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... it with encore airings of some of our best events, an early look at the coming football season and programming surrounding the ALT GAMES, which is our popular showcase of college action sports championships, ...

20. Nets Basketball: First Newark, then Brooklyn ... and then the world
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... the NBA office between 1986-2000), the league really became more involved in international play with the McDonald's Open first (in 1987) and by participating in the Olympics and World Championships, so ...