Two of the eight teams to make the trek to Wilton High School on Saturday morning were city teams Trinity Catholic and King, who saw action against teams that included Bridgeport Central, Fairfield Ludlowe, Norwalk, Brien McMahon and, of course, host Wilton.
By the time the day end, though, Trinity Catholic was slightly battered mentally while [...]

The three Division 1 football players produced by Stamford-based schools made their college debuts on Saturday and saw time on the field.
Former King standout Kevin Pierre-Louis was a starting outside linebacker for the Boston Eagles in their 38-20 win over Weber State on Saturday afternoon while ex-Vikings teammate Silas Redd and former Stamford High stand-out [...]

The Hour Publishing Co., publisher of The Stamford Times newspaper, in an effort to expand its already solid local sports coverage of the city, has reorganized its sports staff in order to help it do an even better job heading into the new high school sports season.
John Nash, who was the paper’s sports editor from [...]

MONTREAL (AP) — Boris Said, a former Stamford resident and graduate of Westhill High School, has won the Nationwide race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, edging Max Papis by a nose on a green-white-checkered finish.
Papis passed Said entering the final chicane for a split second, but Said never lost momentum and sped back by and outraced [...]

By STEVE GEOGHEGAN
Times Sports Editor
QUINCY, Mass. — Jeff Cortese has a flair for the dramatic.
Cortese’s bad hop base hit plated Kevin Epp with the winning run as the Stamford 15-year-old All-Stars came through with a 5-4 victory over Leominster, Mass., in eight innings in the finals of the Babe Ruth New England Regional Tournament on [...]

One of the big questions following the 2008-09 basketball season has been this: Whatever happened to Tevin Baskin.
One of the hottest recruits to come out of the prestigious Trinity Catholic boys basketball program, Baskin was supposed to be following in the footsteps of the likes of Tory Thomas, Craig Austrie, David McClure and others into [...]

The Stamford Babe Ruth 15-year-old All-Stars didn’t need any walk-off heroics to advance to the New England Regional championship game at Quincy, Mass.
Instead an 8-1 victory over Plymouth, Mass., puts Stamford into Monday’s final — one win away from the Babe Ruth World Series.
Click here to read The Stamford Times game story.

By STEVE GEOGHEGAN, Times Sports Editor
QUINCY, Mass. – Jeff  Cortese saved the Stamford Babe Ruth 15-year-old All-Stars from what could have been a crushing defeat.
Cortese hit a two-out, two-strike pitch into left field to plate two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and lift Stamford to a dramatic 3-2 come-from-behind win over Portland, [...]

The Boston Breakers — including Wilton’s very own Kristine Lilly — will bring the excitement of women’s professional soccer to Connecticut for the first time ever at 5 p.m., on Saturday, August 21, at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium in New Britain.
Lilly, as we all know, is a WPS All-Star and the most decorated American player in the [...]

In a decision that is going to rile up many, a Connecticut Federal Judge today ruled that cheerleading cannot be considered a sport.
Judge Stefan R. Underhill ruled that competitive cheerleading is not an official sport for schools looking for ways to meet Title IX gender-equity requirements.
Underhill said competitive cheerleading is too underdeveloped.
Click here to read [...]

The New York Daily News and The Associated Press have both reported that Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has passed away at age 80.
Earlier today, WABC in New York reported Steinbrenner suffered a “massive” heart attack.
He was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Fla.
For more information, visit The Hour’s online sports pages.

An ESPN executive says LeBron James will announce his future NBA plans within the first 10 minutes of Thursday night’s hourlong broadcast from Greenwich.
A blogger on Newsday.com’s Web site has said that James and his one hour special on ESPN announcing where he will play basketball next season is going be broadcast from a studio [...]

Is he? Or isn’t he?
That is the question everybody in the sports world seems to be asking — well, at least here in Connecticut and down in Florida.
Will Bobby Valentine be the next manager of the Florida Marlins? Or won’t he?
What seemed like a sure thing a week ago has turned into a soap opera [...]

One of the worst kept secrets in the world of Major League Baseball right now is that Bobby Valentine is a candidate — if not THE candidate — to become the next manager of the Florida Marlins.
According to some local sources, though, Valentine expects to get the job.
The Hour and The Stamford Times are both [...]

Vanessa Petrini joined the Westhill High School tennis team as a sophomore and after years spent on the sometimes lonely, playing-for-yourself USTA circuit, she enjoyed the team camaraderie the Vikings brought to the tennis court.
For the last two seasons, those very same Vikings she played alongside during the season would always be there for her [...]

I was saddened to hear the news that the Westhill girls softball team fell shy of its quest of an undefeated season and a third straight FCIAC championship because of Friday’s 3-1 loss to Trumbull.
I have had the pleasure of covering the Vikings for the previous two seasons as the former sports editor of The [...]

It’s a trifecta for the city of Stamford, which put all three of its schools into the FCIAC softball tournament.
Undefeated Westhill earned the top-seeded and will face No. 8 Stamford on Monday while Trinity Catholic earned the No. 7 seed and will travel to No. 2 St. Joseph, also on Monday. Games start at 4 [...]

He was made an offer he couldn’t refuse.
And with that, Kevin Jones resigned as the head coach of the Stamford High School football program after eight years. Jones told his team he would be leaving his position to take a job as Assistant Director of College Scouting with JL Sports — a sports agent firm-based [...]

It was a rewarding week for those heading off to new endeavors in the near future as King’s Briana Brown, who is heading to St. John’s University to play basketball, was awarded the Allyson Rioux Memorial Award as the city’s best female athlete for 2010, and three city players have a shot at NFL careers.
Vladamir [...]

Timing, they say, is everything.
And on Saturday afternoon at Boyle Stadium it was bad timing that proved to be a case of home-field disadvantage for the Stamford High girls lacrosse team.
The Black Knights, playing their first-ever varsity season, were leading the Norwalk Bears 6-2 really, really, REALLY late in the first half when the Bears [...]

Former Trinity Catholic star player and Duke University alum David McClure got back to me today to talk a little Blue Devil basketball, amongst other things.
McClure, who graduated last spring and is currently playing in the NBA Developmental League as a member of the Austin Toros in Texas. I spoke with him after Monday’s practice.
His plans [...]

For the past five years, Trinity Catholic product David McClure had been a part of a Duke University basketball team.
In his first year away from the team (he used up his eligibility and graduated from Duke last spring), though, McClure got a different view of this year’s Duke team, which will play Butler on Monday [...]

St. John’s basketball players Da’Shena Stevens, front, a graduate of Trinity Catholic High School in Stamford, and Jennifer Blanding, rear, work out during a drill at Friday’s NCAA college basketball practice, Friday in Tallahassee, Fla. St. John’s plays Princeton in a first round game on Saturday.
It’s been a big year for Stevens, the St. John’s [...]

With The Stamford Times sports editor Steve Geoghegan on vacation, it’s been a flash-back week for me, putting together the March 21 edition of The Stamford Times.
The highlight was definitely a trip to West Hartford to meet Diana Delva for the first time. While I had done a telephone interview with her back when Julie [...]

I was just perusing the Web a little bit, passing time before tonight’s big Wilton-Amity CIAC Division 2 semifinal when I came across a post on the FCIAC Hockey Blog.
At some point on Thursday morning, a poster named HSHockeyFan — who I understand to be the owner/moderator of the blog — told his readers that [...]

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One of the BIG stories coming out of Stamford right now seems to be the NFL Draft prospects of former Stamford Black Knight lineman Vladimir Ducasse.
The University of Massachusetts football player is on everybody’s radar with the draft just two months away.
Above is a video courtesy of the NFL Network while Monday’s edition of the [...]

There’s an old saying around the world of sports that players win games and coaches lose them.
This year, however, I can’t say that’s totally true when it comes to the Trinity Catholic boys and girls basketball programs.
For the two previous winters before this one, I saw a lot of Trinity Catholic basketball which means I [...]

Once upon a time just this winter, the Trinity Catholic hockey was team was 2-7 and it was starting to look like major graduation losses (14 players), Ryan Haggerty heading to the midwest to play with USA Hockey’s Developmental team, and the transfer of another key player to cross-city rival Stamford was simply going to [...]

During the one year he spent as a basketball player at Trinity Catholic High School, Bobby Trimboli figures he helped head coach Mike Walsh win 25 games for the Crusaders.
Plus, over the last three years as the boys head coach at Norwalk High, Trimboli has gone oh-for-three against Walsh.
The latest loss — a 70-66 Trinity [...]

So what has Khairi Fortt been up to as he gets ready to compete in the U.S. Army on Saturday in San Antonio? Well, in addition to getting ready for the big game (noon on NBC ), Stamford’s finest also had a chance to challenge America’s finest.
Here’s a video to prove it.
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Remy Pinson was walking off the court a winner on Friday night, fresh from scoring 20 points in his team’s 56-48 win over Brien McMahon.
While the Crusaders still have 18 games left this season, at least Pinson will be able to put his future at ease after getting word he was accepted to Claremont McKenna [...]

For the past two years, Suzanne Cohen of Westhill has been a dangerous weapon for the Vikings.
In many cases, though, she’s been over-looked by defenses as older players have been in key roles for the Vikings.
This winter, though, Cohen is a junior and she’s expected to be a marked woman around the FCIAC. Everybody knows [...]

King Low Heywood Thomas running back Silas Redd added another postseason honor to his list after getting named the NEPSAC’s New England Class C Player of the Year last week.
Redd was nominated for the award by King head coach Danny Gouin and then picked by a vote of the NEPSAC Class C coaches.
“There are a [...]

The State Class LL championship football game between Staples and Cheshire has been postponed to Sunday due to today’s inclement weather.
The game will be played at Ken Strong Field in West Haven at 2 p.m., on Sunday, if the field conditions permit. A final decision will be made at 9 a.m., Sunday, by the CIAC.
Also, [...]

The Hour Newspapers is pleased to announce that veteran staff sports writer Steve Geoghegan has been named the new sports editor of The Stamford Times effective Dec. 3.
Geoghegan replaces John Nash, who remains on staff as an assistant sports editor for The Hour as well as sports editor of the Wilton Villager.
Geoghegan has been a [...]

While we’re between seasons, it’s time to look back on this year’s Thanksgiving Day football games with Stamford earning its second city championship with a victory over Westhill and with Trinity Catholic topping off head coach Pete Stokes first season with a rout over Wilton.
In addition to recapping those two games, we also have a [...]

After two years and one month, hundreds of games covered and even a handful of state championship teams followed, this post is to announce that effective this afternoon, I am stepping aside as the sports editor of The Stamford Times.
While the new sports editor will be announced in this very space a little bit later [...]

Westhill Girls Soccer – 2009 from John Nash on Vimeo.

Due to an uploading snafu on Frirday, the retrospective video looking at the Westhill girls soccer team’s 2009 state championship season has been delayed.
It is currently being uploaded to an alternate “hosting” site and will be embedded here hopefully within an hour, but definitely by noon.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Stamford has won its second straight City Championship by defeating Westhill, 21-11, on Thursday morning.
Also, Trinity Catholic has beaten Wilton, 46-14.
More on these games will be posted later today.

Sad news from the state’s sports family comes out of Ledyard High School this morning.
According to the Associated Press, a 16-year-old Ledyard High School student has died three days after he collapsed while playing in a junior varsity football game.
A spokesman for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford says Matthew Buriak was taken off life support [...]

This Friday will mark one week since the Westhill High School girls soccer team won the State Class LL championship with a stunning 2-1 victory over Glastonbury.
While one game might have won the team a championship, one win does not a season make and this coming Friday The Stamford Times, as part of its Stamford [...]

It became THE STORY around the city this fall and rightfully so. The Westhill High School girls soccer team marched to the state Class LL championship on Friday, Nov. 21, and then got to march in the UBS Parade in downtown Stamford on Sunday.
While the game has been pretty well chronicled via videos and postings [...]

On Saturday afternoon, the high school football careers of Norwalk’s Silas Redd and Kevin Pierre-Louis came to a stunning end when the King Vikings lost to Suffield Academy, 34-13, in the NEPSAC Del Ponte-Thebold Bowl at Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford.
It was an intriguing matchup between King, a legitimate “high school” that runs through the [...]

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The most remarkable thing about this year’s Westhill High School soccer team is how much of a team they have become and how they not only learned from their mistakes on the field, they made sure not to repeat the mistakes off the field, as well.
Two years ago, the crux of this year’s state championship [...]

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COMING SOON: Videos of Dante Terenzio and Briana Brown signings, too.

We received word this morning that longtime Fairfield County sports figure and Hall of Famer Nick Koulas passed away at the age of 92 at a Stamford-based assisted living facility.
According to his Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame biography, “Koules is a legendary figure around the baseball diamonds and basketball courts of the county as [...]

The CIAC on Thursday unanimously voted to adapt a new state football playoff structure for the 2010 season and beyond, according to a press release from the CIAC Board of Control. The state’s football teams will be reclassified into four divisions with eight teams in each division qualifying for state tournament play. Currently, there are [...]

Third-seeded Westhill will face top-seeded Glastonbury for the State Class LL girls soccer championship on Friday night at 7 p.m., at West Haven High School.
This, of course, is as long as the CIAC stays true to its word.
Any changes and we’ll update as soon as we know.

Last week, in Reno, Nev., one of the city’s greatest female athletes, Allyson Rioux, was posthumously inducted into the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame. Many friends and family members made the trip from their homes throughout the country to honor Allyson and the legacy she left behind after her death.
The following is the induction [...]

Unfortunately, the biggest stories this week aren’t in this week’s edition of The Stamford Times.
Due to a last-minute time change in the State Class LL semifinal girls soccer game between Westhill and Ridgefield, the game was moved until after our weekly Wednesday deadline. Ditto for Trinity Catholic’s semifinal matchup against No. 1 and undefeated Morgan, [...]

Dateline Norton, Massachuetts.
Three former Trinity Catholic girls basketball standouts hooked up at Wheaton College on Tuesday when the host Lyons met up with Roger Williams College in the season-opener for both teams.
For Wheaton, it was also the debut of freshman guard Jeana Trimboli, who immediately made her presence felt by draining three 3-pointers and scoring [...]

King Low Heywood Thomas capped its second straight undefeated regular season last weekend with a 42-22 victory over St. Luke’s.
That left the Vikings with an 8-0 record and waiting for a phone call that, for the second straight year, they’d be invited to take part in the New England Prep School Championship game.
Earlier this week, [...]

(Updated 9:45 a.m., Tuesday morning)
Once again, the CIAC has proven that the student-athletes under its auspices do not come first.
The Westhill High School girls soccer team will be playing Ridgefield in a Class LL semifinal on Wednesday, at Norwalk High School’s Testa Field. It will be played at 6:30 p.m., according to the CIAC Web [...]

It’s state tournament time in Connecticut, which means sudden endings for some teams while other teams surge ahead with hopes and dreams of more to come.
The Trinity Catholic volleyball team won its first two games of the Class S tournament to move on to the quarterfinals while the Westhill field hockey team knocked off Norwich [...]

The Stamford Times Web site just reported on the New England Recruiting Report post that former Stamford High School basketball standout Chris Evans has verbally committed to play for Sacred Heart University.
Evans has confirmed the news on his Facebook page, announcing: “Chris Evans is Committed to Sacred Heart University.”
Evans is currently attending The Taft School, [...]

There are two big stories to report this week in The Stamford Times.
The first is Tuesday night’s FCIAC volleyball quarterfinal victory for the Trinity Catholic Crusaders. Unfortunately, due to our odd-ball printing times, the team’s semifinal game against Greenwich will be played and done in on Thursday, before the Times even hit the streets (fear [...]

One Stamford-based soccer team won its game on Saturday and that’s a good sign for the future of the sport in the city.
On a day when the Stamford boys, Westhill boys and Westhill girls were all ousted from the FCIAC tournament, it took a group of U-12 girls to save the soccer day.
The Stamford Hurricanes [...]

Just when it looked like the Westhill High School boys soccer team would get through a season without any off-the-field adversity, the Vikings had to forfeit four games on Wednesday afternoon, forcing them into a must-win regular season finale to get into the FCIAC playoffs.
The Vikings got that win, defeating Fairfield Ludlowe, 4-1, on Wednesday [...]

One of the best kept secrets in the city this fall sports season has been the Westhill High School field hockey team.
The Vikings lost 12 seniors from last year’s squad, which won the city championship by beating and tying the two-time defending state champs from Stamford. Nobody expected too much out this year’s Westhill group [...]

In my business, it is proper practice, if not proper etiquette, to wait until after a coach’s post-game talk to conduct interviews.
At both the NCAA level as well as that of pro sports, there are mandatory “cool down” periods enacted within the guidelines before reporters are allowed into locker rooms or before players come to [...]

Mark Powers has already made a pretty big name in his tennis world, be it from the city of Stamford or elsewhere around the USTA. Now, he’s even gotten the Yale University folks noticing.
While Powers, a freshman at Yale, is playing tennis for the Bulldogs this season, the school’s newspaper — the Yale Daily News [...]

A busy week means one of the busiest sections of The Stamford Times Sports that we’ve put out in a while.
From our cover story of the Westhill boys soccer team reclaiming bragging rights by winning the city title with a 2-1 win over Stamford last week, to two stories geared toward Monday’s Fairfield County Sports [...]

On Monday night at the Greenwich Hyatt-Regency hotel, Stamford High School product James Hilaire received the Chelsea Cohen Courage Award from the the Fairfield County Sports Commission during its 5th annual Sports Night banquet.
This came shortly he returned to Massachusetts last week to visit the hospital staff that saved his live after the Sept. 24, [...]

Tim Parry, our friend over at the FCIAC Football Blog, posted an item today asking, “Start The Debate? Who is No. 1.” Click here to read that post.
Personally, I think the answer is obvious: New Canaan, until somebody beats them, easily deserves the top spot in Fairfield County. It is after that top slot, though, [...]

So I spent the better part of Sunday morning watching The Non-YES Network and their coverage of King’s football win over Kingswood-Oxford on Saturday and I must admit that visually The Non-YES Network did a good job capturing the images of the game. (Especially Silas Redd’s leap over a K-O defender in the fourth quarter).
They [...]

Just heard from The Stamford Times correspondent Joe Ryan, who covered King’s victory over Kingswoohd-Oxford on Saturday afternoon.
It seems as though Danny Gouin, King’s head coach, has found a new way to exploit the talent he has on Newfield Ave. — The Wildcat offense.
That’s right … He had Silas Redd, the Penn State-bound superstar of [...]

Yes, sports fans, you read the headline correctly.
Professional basketball is coming to Stamford this winter and no the Trinity Catholic Crusaders have not been kicked out of the FCIAC.
The Eastern Basketball Alliance has announced that it’s expanding into Connecticut over the next two years — this winter in Fairfield County and next year with a [...]

A city championship was at stake on Tuesday and it proved to be the same old story as the Westhill girls soccer team defeated Trinity Catholic, 3-0, to win claim their ninth straight city crown. But such a big game is only part of our big coverage in this week’s edition of The Stamford Times.
We [...]

It’s fun to watch the great ones: the best players on the best teams. You know the players of which I speak: the ones with their names in the headlines, those with the inside track to the championship trophies.
But even the purest of sports fans knows that sometimes the bandwagon just gets too over-crowded.
That’s when [...]

Just a reminder to all that photos taken by John Nash, the sports editor of The Stamford Times, can be found on the following Web site:
http://www.sportsworld.photostockplus.com
Many fall sports have already been added with more to come, including Tuesday’s City Championship girls soccer showdown with Westhill and Trinity Catholic.
Feel free to take a look and enjoy.

Khairi Fortt returned to the football field on Friday night, taking up his linebacker spot for the Stamford High School Black Knights defense.
As could be expected from a defense that had Fortt back along side Patrick Atkinson, the Orange and Black defense did everything you’d expect it to do in the game, limiting the Bears [...]

Westhill assistant football coach Bill During is about to have an odd weekend.
The Westhill Vikings will be heading to Staples on Saturday for the next game on its gridiron schedule. During will be in his purple and gold and standing on the far sideline — but deep, deep down, part of him still bleeds the [...]

For those of you surprised that Khairi Fortt of Stamford isn’t our cover player for this week’s edition, (though he is a small part of the cover), consider this:
Two Stamford teams — Trinity and Westhill going head-to-head — trumped one player heading off to college, so it was Michael Rivas of Trinity (200 yards rushing, [...]

Khairi Fortt only had to say two words: “Penn State.”
The Stamford High School senior football player, ranked as the No. 2 inside linebacker in the entire country according to ESPN.com, let everybody else in his college decision on Monday during a special ceremony inside Kuczo Gymnasium.
Fortt, who actually received his U.S. Army All-American Bowl jersey [...]

Brien McMahon defeated Stamford, 22-7, on Friday night at Casagrande Field in Norwalk.
Stamford played the game without star linebacker Khairi Fortt, who was reportedly a game-time decision as to whether or not he’d play.
Fortt, who will announce his college decision on Monday, hasn’t played this season since injuring his knee during the first half of [...]

With the high school season in full swing, so too is The Stamford Times sports section — eight pages of jam-packed sports news for your reading pleasure.
The two big stories coming out of the city this week are both F-words — Football and Field Hockey.
On the football front, King’s Silas Redd had a career day [...]

I must admit I made the trip to Stamford High School’s Boyle Stadium tonight with a little bit of trepidation, worried about what I would find when it came to the two-time defending state Class L field hockey champion Black Knights.
After all, graduation decimated the Stamford line-up and the Black Knights opened the 2009 season [...]

Conventional wisdom says Khairi Fortt will be going to Penn State to play his college football.
On Monday, we’ll all find out for sure.
As a Penn State fan for more than 30 years, I’d like to see him head to the Nittany Lions to see what he can do with the rest of his career. But [...]

Stamford High School senior linebacker Khairi Fortt will be telling the world where he’s going to play his college football on Monday at a school assembly, according to Black Knights head coach Kevin Jones.
Fortt, who has been invited to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl for high school seniors on Jan. 9, 2009, is [...]

It’s not like a lot of people were talking about this, especially inside the Trinity Catholic boys soccer camp.
But the fact of the matter is, according to the CIAC web site’s yearly results,  the Crusaders entered this 2009 season dragging along a 27-game non-winning streak that dated back to the fall of 2007. And an [...]

By JOE RYAN
As I write this, I have to admit to being ticked off and read that in stronger terms even. I know that you can’t control people , but I walked into Terry Conners Rink yesterday to see Dean Pomeroy. Only I couldn’t find him.
He moved to Albuquerque.
Now,Dean had always been good to me [...]

Let me begin this post by painting you a handful of pictures from Saturday’s high school football game between King Low Heywood Thomas and Hamden Hall.
• The first time I saw Silas Redd of King touch a football, he was caught behind the line of scrimmage and seemed destined for a loss. Twenty four yards [...]

King’s Silas Redd was named the FCIAC Football Blog’s BlueStreak Sports Training’s Player of the Week.
Click here to read more about Redd’s honor.

First off, let us begin with an official warning from the Surgeon General: This week’s Sports Section in The Stamford Times maybe hazardous to your health. It’s a whopping 10-pages long and we recommend you don’t lift using just your back. Use your legs and proper lifting mechanics.
That’s right, folks! Ten pages of sports news [...]

One more quick note from Westhill’s stunning 2-1 win over St. Joseph on Tuesday: The Vikings beat the No. 19 ranked team in the entire country, according to the National Soccer Coaches Association of American/Adidas poll.
While St. Joe’s had gone 40-2-3 over the past two seasons, while winning two state titles, one league crown, and [...]

Remember the name C.C. Figluizzi-Bingham.
The freshman girls soccer player at Westhill High School blasted home a 25-yard shot off an assist from Morgan Tanacea midway through the second half to lead the Vikings to a stunning 2-1 victory over perennial FCIAC power St. Joseph’s in Stamford on Tuesday afternoon.
The goal gave Westhill one of the [...]

Two-time defending state individual tennis champion Vanessa Petrini of Westhill High School has verbally committed to attend Rutgers University in the fall, athletic director Mike King announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Petrini, when she was reached after school, said she is excited about the opportunity of playing at Rutgers, which met all three of her criteria when [...]

This fall, as part of it’s high school football coverage, The Stamford Times, along with its sister papers, The Wilton Villager and The Hour, are adorning its football stories with special football helmets.
These helmets are special because they represent the schools actual game helmets.
The artist behind the helmets is a gentleman named “Mike” and he [...]

Khairi Fortt emerged from the Stamford High School football locker room in civilian clothes. That was the bad news surrounding the Black Knights football program on Monday afternoon.
The smile on Fortt’s face as he greeted a visitor was the good news. That meant all should soon be right in Fortt’s world — and the Black [...]

When you’re the second-ranked inside linebacker in high school football, in the whole entire country, when you get hurt it tends to make national news.
A national radio program, “The ABCs of Sports”, which is broadcast on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio brought up the topic  of Fortt’s injury while I was driving to work today. The show’s [...]

Some of my friends say I see conspiracy if my coffee is made wrong the morning. They may be right. I’ve been watching a lot of the history channel since the Mets season went south,
Anyhow, for my first visit to the Hopkins School campus in New Haven — site of King’s season-opening football win on Friday [...]

One year ago, the Trinity Catholic girls soccer team came into the fall season and promptly went 0-2 in its first two games, losing to Wilton and Staples by a combined score of 10-0.
This year, the Crusaders opened the season with the same schedule — Wilton in game one, Staples in game two — and [...]

In all my years, I never thought I would hear a referee utter the phrase I heard Thursday night.
It was during a contentious second quarter of Thursday’s Stamford-Ridgefield football game when one of the official, who was later indentified as Tom Brown, came over to Stamford football coach Kevin Jones to discuss why he had [...]