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At Riverdale Playground, a perfectly good pickleball court now lies underneath the basketball courts and adjacent to the handball courts. However, according to pickleball afficiando Alex Rosenblum, it needs some work. more
The world’s second most popular sport has never been the most popular in the United States, but perhaps that may change as the International Cricket Council eyes not only New York City as the host of the 2024 T20 World Cup, but Riverdale’s Van Cortlandt Park. more
The prospect of a temporary cricket stadium in Van Cortlandt Park has left many cricket players apprehensive of potentially losing their scheduled season next year. more
Mayor Eric Adams’ idea of bringing World Cup cricket to Van Cortlandt Park next year has met with some resistance following an emergency Community Board 8 meeting July 20. more
Manhattan College has a new kid on the block who can knock down threes and can freestyle with some dunking, too. The Jaspers have set in motion the latest chapter in the career of Xinyi Li, one of only five  active NCAA Division I men’s basketball players born in China. more
The stories are endless with a unique ring to each. They belong to family, friends, and even competitors of a man who prioritized doing good deeds like he did when winning games. There were many more of those things to be realized — hence why days like last Thursday were hard for so many. more
Ivan Lytovchenko remembers the look on the faces of his common folk. There were no emotions — only austere expressions and almost a sense of numbness to it all by now. more
St. Michael’s College senior utility man Ulysses Luciano, a Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy alumnus, was named the Northeast-10 Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the week ending Sunday, April 9 along with teammate John Luke Cianciolo Guilford/New Haven, Connecticut. more
What do Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez have in common? According to Riverdale author Harvey Rosenfeld, they are among 30 people involved with Major League Baseball who were “bastards.” more
Mike Malone went from already a really good coach to the talk of the NBA following the Denver Nuggets triumph in five games over the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals earlier this month. Denver was the best team all year led by arguably the most lethal player in the league in Nikola Jokic. By all measures their crowning moment was most deserved, but still not something Malone wanted as Denver’s epitaph. more
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