Watch World Cup at Family Outing
Catch the USA vs. England World Cup game in a family friendly setting on June 12 at MARTE (Manhattan Artisan Retail & Trade Emporium), 121 E. 3rd Street.
The artisan flea market is showing the game on a large screen with soccer demos, free snacks and free Hawaiian Shaved Ice for the kids.
Hicks’ Lucky Kick
On rare—very rare—occasions, a soccer goalie gets to have a moment of glory on offense. Maybe the keeper is tall and plays well in the air, so he is brought up to play corner kicks. Maybe he is an excellent ball striker and is good at penalty shots.
Dan Hicks isn’t used in either way by the Bowdoin College soccer team, but he still managed to net a goal this season. Playing against New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) heavyweight Trinity Oct. 26, he took a free kick from the edge of his own box. After 80 yards and a deceptive bounce on the wet turf, the ball found its way past the opposing keeper. Read more
HUNTER HAWKS PUT ON BEST SHOW IN YEARS
A year ago, Devin Leahy was a little-used freshman on one of the worst college soccer teams in New York City. Now, thanks to his key efforts in the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) championship game on Nov. 8, Hunter College’s soccer team is the toast of the town.
Hunter finished the regular season last year with a disastrous 2-13-1 record, but the Hawks improved this fall, thanks to a dynamic group of juniors and sophomores. And though Leahy, who played previously at the Trevor Day School on the Upper West Side, Read more
POISED FOR PLAYOFF TRIUMPH
When the Martin Luther King Jr. boys’ soccer team lost in September, it was the squad’s first defeat in 33 games and nearly three years. But all good things must come to an end, even for King, the unquestioned powerhouse of high school boys’ soccer in New York City and public school champions for 10 of the past 12 years.
Then, on Oct. 7, King lost again. Suddenly, everyone had to re-evaluate some long-held assumptions about Read more
NEVILLE COLMAN’S TURF LEGACY
From the window of Glenys Lobban’s apartment at Riverside Drive and 110th Street, the field looks like just another blotch of grass among several others in the expanse of the park below. One would have to actually walk down to the lowest tier of Riverside Park, right next to the Henry Hudson Parkway, to see the plaque that names the field for Neville Colman, Lobban’s late husband. Neville Colman Field is not his most substantial legacy, certainly not for a man who reared two children Read more
