Author: Mike Smith

Sports

Tigers aim for section crown

One year after falling to league rival Scarsdale in the Section I final, the Mamaroneck field hockey team is gearing up to avenge last season’s loss and regain its spot as one of the top Class A programs in the state. With a healthy crew of returning starters, they may […]

Opinion Sports

The unwritten rulebook

  [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he tricky thing about unwritten rules is that when edicts aren’t spelled out in black and white, it leaves an awful lot of room for gray area. Perhaps no sport in the world has more unwritten rules than baseball. Coming in at 284 pages long, the official Major League […]

Sports

Tigers eye bright future

The last two years have certainly been successful ones for the Mamaroneck softball program, as the Tigers made back-to-back appearances in the Class A semifinals. But even though the team hasn’t yet advanced to the championship game, head coach Susan Hannon believes the window is still open for this up-and-coming […]

Opinion Sports

Let the mystery be

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] don’t want to launch into another “get off my lawn”-type old fogey complaint about baseball stats here, but I feel like my hand is being forced. Now, I’ve made my peace with a lot of the new-fangled metrics like Ultimate Zone Rating and Win-Shares. Those stats, while not necessarily […]

Opinion Sports

Softball not a hard sell

  [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he best baseball game I watched all year wasn’t a major league contest. It wasn’t a Section I playoff tilt, either. In fact, it wasn’t even technically “baseball.” On Monday night, softball teams from Oklahoma and Florida played the first game in a best-of-three College World Series finals. Seventeen […]