Varsity Insider

With the weather warming up, spring and summer football events are just around the corner. Soon, this blog will cycle through an absurd amount of words breaking down the 2013 season. With that in mind, let’s begin to look toward this fall. Below is a list of highlight films from… Read More →

I’ve started to compile a couple lists for annual posts that are among the most popular each offseason. And it requires your help, too. HIGHLIGHTS. If you’re a returning football or basketball player and have a highlight reel you’d like to promote, e-mail me the link to your film at… Read More →

In his two years since graduating Spring Valley, Calvin Heurtelou has been a football nomad, spending a year at Trinity-Pawling and another at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona. He has added 45 pounds to his 6-foot-3 frame. All that work has begun to pay off. The former all-county lineman at… Read More →

Hey folks. Dan here. North Rockland’s Brandon Hepburn got drafted today. Here is my story: Things did not look good for Brandon Hepburn with 10 picks remaining in the National Football League draft on Saturday. The North Rockland graduate never lost faith through it all though, and in the seventh… Read More →

The NFL Draft begins tonight at Radio City Music Hall and continues Friday and Saturday. Although there are no Jimmy Kennedys or Devin McCourtys slated to go early, two local players have put themselves in position to get picked this weekend. And it wasn’t easy. Our friend Dan did a… Read More →

Here’s my story catching up with former Clarkstown North star Keith Bulluck, who will be inducted into the Rockland Sports Hall of Fame next weekend: Reading textbooks and writing papers might seem like relatively mundane activities for an NFL star, but Keith Bulluck doesn’t share that view. When he retired… Read More →

The waiting is over. It’s time to cheer. Section 1’s 2013 football rankings and schedules have been released to the schools by Section 1 athletics. I will post the ranking and schedule for every team in the section here. (It will take a while to type out, so refresh often… Read More →

The Section 1 football committee received feedback from several schools when rankings for the 2013 season were released last week. When the committee reviewed the spreadsheet, it discovered that calculating errors had been made. The errors forced a complete reshuffle of the rankings in each class. So…consider those original rankings… Read More →

Dan DeFrancesco attended the tuneral of Mount Vernon basketball legend Ray Williams, who passed away last week at 58. Below is his story, along with a video by photographer Carucha Meuse. MOUNT VERNON — Albert King remembers that faithful night in Detroit more than 30 years ago. He remembers his… Read More →

The New Rochelle Board of Education will honor all of its champions in what’s been a pretty historic school year for the athletic department. Here’s a release from the district about the event: Members of the New Rochelle High School basketball, indoor track, swimming and cheerleading teams will be honored… Read More →

If you typed in the web address or clicked on a link to bring you here today, you probably thought you were in the wrong place. Well, think again. This is, in fact, the blog you know and love (or love to hate). Our team at LoHud.com has worked to… Read More →

The Section 1 football rankings have been released to the schools. Some coaches were made aware of them by administrators. Some, I’m told, were not. Although the schedules have not been finalized, I was told by one source privy to a meeting last week that they can be expected soon…. Read More →

Here’s more from Nancy Haggerty about Kennedy’s move from Section 1 to the CHSAA: Kennedy Catholic High School’s exit from Section 1 for the Catholic High School Athletic Association was partially fueled by the section’s threat to expel all its teams for athletic recruiting, athletic director Father Matthew Newcomb said… Read More →