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By Dan Cleary Fred Geffken had a big decision to make. A very big one. The then-Sparta police officer and Sparta Police Athletic League basketball coach applied to be the...
Defense was king in the finale of the 2025 NJSIAA Football State Championships at SHI Stadium on Wednesday night. The defenses of the Camden Panthers and Malcolm X. Shabazz Bulldogs...
Last week’s football notes column described how the Super Football Conference treated some schools like they were a deck of playing cards. They shuffled them. The SFC rearranged a few...
Butler and West Morris won sectional titles and went about them the old-fashioned way: By pounding the rock. Game after game, opponents geared up to stop both running games but...
Winslow repeated as NJSIAA Group 4 champion behind a historic night from Jalen Parker and a three-score explosion from Quayd Hendryx, outlasting Ramapo in a wild state-final thriller.
On a rainy afternoon at SHI Stadium, the defending NJSIAA Group I state champion Glassboro Bulldogs knew they had a target on their back. They didn’t care. The undefeated crew...
The final of four state championships played at MetLife Stadium on Friday was perhaps the most exciting of the bunch. The St. Joseph Green Knights looked for revenge on the...
The Old Tappan Golden Knights had been an unassailable force for nearly two full calendar years. Coach Brian Dunn’s squad entered their NJSIAA Group 3 title defense against the Cedar...
For two quarters, Washington Township looked like a team still searching for its spark. For the final two quarters, Jaylen Robinson became the spark, gasoline, match, and firework finale all...
DePaul Catholic showed exactly why they’re the standard in Non-Public Group B. Behind a gutsy, legacy-building performance from senior quarterback Derek Zammit, the Spartans jumped out early and never surrendered...
(Big State Sports did not create this list) Quarterback David Smith, who quarterbacked Butler to sectional championships the last two years, has been named the John Chirrona Offensive Player of...
Back in the early 1990s, Butler football brought the Run and Shoot to Morris County. This year, quarterback David Smith took it upon himself to get rid of the Shoot. ...
Scoreboards exploded all over Sussex County this fall – and many of the reasons for that offensive output can be found on Big State Sports’ All-Sussex County football team. Sparta...
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Grammatically, that sentence is wrong – but the sentiment is 100 percent right. If your wife is beautiful and you’re in love with...
With about two minutes left, Hollywood was calling. The movie script was almost complete. A story was unfolding, and what a story it was. Cinderella Madison was on the verge...
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