By TOM WILLIAMS Chris Ford was the face of Cape-Atlantic League basketball. When great players would come along – Reggie Miller, Alan Shaw, Walt Montford, Rick Harmon, Lou Roe, LaMarr Greer – they would be compared to Chris. But very … Continue reading Remembering Chris Ford
By TOM WILLIAMS When Fran St. John first became a basketball head coach at Wildwood Catholic, Richard Nixon had just been elected President of the United States. Earlier that year, both Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy … Continue reading COLUMN: CAL Sportsperson of the Year – Fran St. John
By TOM WILLIAMS Basketball was a passion for Bob Hutchings. (Only his mother called him Bob, to everyone else he was Hutch.) He played on one of the greatest Cape-Atlantic League teams of all-time – the 1968-69 Millville team that … Continue reading Remembering Bob Hutchings
By TOM WILLIAMS Back in the 1960s and 1970s high school sports play-by-play was presented on live radio. There was Jim Quinn at WMVB in Millville, Ray Martin at WCMC in Wildwood, Gene Hart (later one of the top announcers … Continue reading COLUMN: OC Sportspersons of the Year – Matt Ulmer & Bill Shallcross
By TOM WILLIAMS 2022 was a pretty good year and Ocean City High School’s sports teams made the best of it. The coaches play a big role in this success, especially because the strength of the programs continues even after … Continue reading COLUMN: 2022 OCHS Athletes of the Year – Riley Gunnels & Tori Vliet
By TOM WILLIAMS When you faced the challenges that Frank Tummarello faced, life could get you down. He struggled with polio as a child but became an athlete. And, as an adult, he needed a heart transplant and battled cancer. … Continue reading Remembering Frank Tummarello
By TOM WILLIAMS The calendar year 2022 is about to end, a year not completely out from under the cloud of a pandemic, but getting much better. Through it all, Ocean City High School sports continued to succeed. Nine teams … Continue reading COLUMN: OCHS Teams of the Year
By TOM WILLIAMS In the 1950s, the names Kennedy and Wickes seemed to go together when Ocean City sports fans talked. They had been the leaders of the 1955 state basketball championship won by the Raiders. Both were belatedly inducted … Continue reading Remembering Joe Kennedy
By TOM WILLIAMS Here it is, that time of year when people focus on gifts and giving. And this is the month that most of those gifts are distributed. The sports community, after continuing to battle through COVID-19 and its … Continue reading COLUMN: Another holiday gift list
By TOM WILLIAMS It was quite a season for high school football. It started in August at Ocean City’s Carey Stadium, ended the first weekend of December for 10 public schools in SHI Stadium at Rutgers but was strangely over … Continue reading COLUMN: Wrapping up the 2022 CAL football season
WINSTON-SALEM, NC- Three sportscasters and a sportswriter from the Cape-Atlantic League area are among the finalists for 2022 New Jersey state awards according to the National Sports Media Association (NSMA) here. Mike McGarry is a finalist for the state’s Sportswriter … Continue reading Four from area nominated as state’s best in 2022 sports media
By TOM WILLIAMS Here we are in the home stretch of the new high school football in New Jersey. The 10 public schools that have reached state championship games have the week off before playing in SHI Stadium at Rutgers … Continue reading COLUMN: The new football in NJ
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