By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK – Atlanta Dream’s Blake Dietrick, at the Westchester County Center, was playing 941 miles away from the Dream’s home base, 178 miles away from her hometown, but only 80 miles from Princeton University’s Jadwin Gymnasium. It was in that gym that Dietrick (class of ’15)…
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“Just Play”: New Jersey’s Tobin Heath Poised to Seize the World By Storm… Again
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BASKING RIDGE, N.J.- Speaking with me at her alma mater, Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Tobin Heath was beaming as two hundred campers were learning the game of soccer behind us. Last year, Heath and I discussed the importance of unstructured play in an athlete’s development….
A Bad Dream: New York Liberty Fall to Atlanta on Fan Appreciation Day
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- Today, the New York Liberty wrapped up their 2018 home campaign with a 86-77 loss to the Atlanta Dream at the Westchester County Center. The Liberty moved from the World’s Most Famous arena, Madison Square Garden, to the arena in White Plains at the beginning of…
Commissioner Calls Aces’ Bluff, Possibly Folding Playoff Hopes
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – A professional basketball team looks to board a plane to play a game across the country. The flight’s stopover destination delays the outbound flight twice, causing the team to chase z’s on the airport terminal chairs. The flight the team boards will arrive late, approximately…
A 3-Game Skid: NEW YORK LIBERTY’S Frustration Mounting Following WASHINGTON MYSTICS’ Delle Donne’s Dominance
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK – Frustration continues to mount in White Plains as the New York Liberty (7-17) dropped its third game in a row, this afternoon to the Washington Mystics (14-10). Today’s matinee, a game that featured only two lead changes, the Liberty were only ahead of the…
NEW YORK METS: Dropped Ball on Absence of ASG Nod for Nimmo
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WAYNE, N.J.- The culmination of the Mets not-so bright-and-cheery season is, as of today, a record that puts them tied with the Miami Marlins for last place in the NL East (13.5 games back). Besides 2018 All-Star Jacob deGrom’s quest for the National League Cy Young award, there seems to…
LAS VEGAS ACES Dealt Winning Hand, Achieve First Winning Streak at NEW YORK LIBERTY
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- It was Las Vegas Aces’ head coach Bill Laimbeer’s first (and only) regular-season return to the Big Apple. After coaching the Liberty to three playoff births in five seasons, he bequeathed the team to one of his assistant coaches, a WNBA legend: Katie Smith. It was…
VICTOR CRUZ: “All I Need is an Opportunity”
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTRY, N.J.- From growing up in the fourth ward of Paterson, New Jersey to catching a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl to secure a win in football’s biggest game for his hometown New York Giants, Victor Cruz has certainly “been there, done that”. Cruz, 31, is not…
INTERVIEWS: CHICAGO BEARS PLAYERS-In Trubisky and Nagy We Trust
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/coachmccartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- In the 2017 National Football League Draft, the Chicago Bears, with the second overall pick, selected Mitchell Trubisky, a 6’3″ quarterback from the University of North Carolina. After watching from the sidelines, Trubisky got the opportunity he had been working toward for his entire life in week…
New England Patriots’ Devin McCourty: The Players Coalition and Colin Kaepernick
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTRY, N.J.- Quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick ignited a movement in the National Football League, in the United States of America, and in the world by choosing to kneel during the playing of The Star Spangled Banner on August 26, 2016. It was only a preseason game against the Green…
Drew Bledsoe’s Winemaking and Quarterback Rankings
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) MORRIS PLAINS, N.J.- The first overall pick in the National Football League draft was a quarterback, on a mission bequeathed to him: to rescue his new franchise from oblivion. In 1993, Drew Bledsoe was that young signal caller, and believe it or not, that team was the New England…
New York Yankees: Terrible in Toronto-Too Early to Press Panic Button on Dellin Betances?
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- The Yankees are set to open their 2018 campaign at Yankee Stadium MONDAY (4/2), but they are returning home after an opening-series loss against divisional opponent Toronto Blue Jays. Most alarming is the giant uncertainty surrounding the ability of relief pitcher Dellin Betances, who was exposed,…
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