By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- Any listener to my sports talk radio show (60 Minute Overtime – #60MinOT) knows that my draft strategy is not to select the best player on the board (unless as a trade chip), but to select players based on the team’s needs. In this year’s draft, the…
Month: April 2017
Mock NFL Draft: The New York Jets (Round 1) Select….
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – Any listener to my sports talk radio show (60 Minute Overtime – #60MinOT) knows that my draft strategy is not to select the best player on the board (unless as a trade chip), but to select players based on the team’s needs. Although the New…
Becca Longo: Kicking Down Gender Barriers one Field Goal at a Time
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- “I used to play soccer for a long, long time and I just got tired of it”: On Thursday, Becca Longo, a former soccer player, became the first female to sign a letter of intent to play football at a Division II university or higher. Clearly, soccer’s…
New Casey Stengel Biography is a Beautiful Juxtaposition of History and Baseball, Transcendent of Time
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- The only thing that I knew about Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel before opening Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character by Marty Appel was that he was worth $260 as a yellow property on Monopoly’s New York Yankees edition. When I was younger, my brother and I would often…
Chicago Cubs: Still America’s Lovable, Blue Collar Losers? Think again.
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) On national television Monday night, the Chicago Cubs raised the 2016 World Series flag at Wrigley Field. By “the Cubs”, I literally mean the members of the entire team. After the National Anthem, lead by first baseman Anthony Rizzo, the players walked across the field, under the bleachers, past concession…