Varsity Insider

To paraphrase Bill Thom, the other teams aren’t stupid. They watched the early games of the tournament and realized P.J. Torres was the Hudson Valley player to stop. Western locked down on Torres and took Hudson Valley out of its rhythm, pulling ahead 49-44 at the half. But with Torres… Read More →

I went to Canisius College yesterday to watch Hudson Valley’s open team and catch up with Mookie Jones. You can read that story here, about how the former Peekskill star hopes to piece things together once more at Syracuse after two very difficult years there. Jones said he has remained… Read More →

Quick note here: The scholastic men’s basketball team faces a must-win tonight at 6 against Western. The Central region won earlier today to improve to 3-0 for the tournament. Although Western is only 1-1, it would pull into a tie with Hudson Valley by winning head-to-head tonight. Western would then… Read More →

For the second straight game, the open men’s basketball team struggled until the second half. But they yet again ran away late, this time beating Adirondack 77-65 over at Canisius College. The open team topped New York City 90-74 in Thursday night’s opener behind 27 points from Peekskill product Mookie… Read More →

One more highlight video to add to the list: Rye QB Connor Eck. His come from a recruiting website, so you can watch Eck highlights by clicking here: http://www.cpoa.com/video/10020700.wmv If you want to check out the complete list (to date) of highlight films, click here to check out my previous… Read More →

Despite a slippery court here at Canisius College, the scholastic men’s basketball team had no problem with Adirondack. Hudson Valley won its second game 93-76 to move one step closer to securing its spot in Sunday’s gold medal game. Unlike Thursday’s win over New York City, this game was defined… Read More →

New Rochelle rising senior P.J. Torres started slow, missing his first four shots. He told me he was maybe too determined to challenge New York City. Once he gathered himself and stuck to the program, the 6-foot-3 Torres found the result to be better than he ever imagined. Torres dropped… Read More →

As promised, I’ve posted links to a highlight films of local players below. There are a number of them on YouTube, but I’m sure it is far from complete. If yours isn’t here but you’d like it added to the list, please shoot me an e-mail at jthomson@lohud.com and I’ll… Read More →

Check back later on today for links to player highlight films. If you have a link to send to me, shoot it to me via e-mail at jthomson@lohud.com. The more the merrier. Same goes for Captain’s Corners, of which I have many in hand or on the way. Even though… Read More →

So I’m up in Buffalo the next four days to cover the Empire State Games, which return this summer after a one-year, budget-induced hiatus. However, I’m going to do something new here that should add a lot of content this summer. I’ve already had some people e-mail me links to… Read More →

The Captain’s Corners continue this week with another Stepinac star, linebacker Brian Byrnes. If you want to see a player, son, teammate or friend that is a captain featured here, shoot me an e-mail at jthomson@lohud.com. And if you’ve missed our previous Q and As, you can find them all… Read More →

One of the most anticipated honors of the local sports season for us is the annual Super 11, a look at the top football players entering the new season. If you don’t know about Super 11, I suggest you check out the videos of last year’s honorees. We’re closing in… Read More →