As far back as I can remember, I have always been a Siena College basketball fan. My parents have season tickets so my brother and I have been lucky to be able to go. I have enjoyed watching many different players over the years, but there has been one player in particular that I have really enjoyed watching. His name is Kenny Hasbrouck and recently, I had the opportunity to interview him.

Kids all around the world are living in athletically deprived environments. Children are living without many sports like baseball. When they do play they scrimmage, play games, practice and can have fun. But many times it is not just about the game, it’s about the kids and what they’re doing with their free time when they don’t have a youth baseball program in their community.

The Bowl Championship Series finally had it right … at least initially.

Is cheerleading a sport? Give me a Y-E-S!

It isn’t often that two members of the same high school wrestling team end up wrestling at Division I colleges but that’s exactly what Brian Benton and John Paris both did. Benton and Paris both were highly successful wrestlers for Ken Benton and the Rams. Benton is now at George Mason University while Paris is at Binghamton University.

Simple math for a steroids problem: Steroids = Pay raise

Have you been really good at something so they brought you up, like skipping a grade perhaps? Now it is happening in professional sports — high schoolers are skipping college to play professional sports for a living.

If you have ever played a sport, you know that most teams have practices quite often. Some students are realizing that because of practice, they are having less time to study, causing them to get worse grades.

Apolo Ohno was born May 22, 1982 in Seattle, Wash. His Japanese-born father,Yuki Ohno, and his American-born mother Jarrie Lee Ohno raised Apolo. His parents were divorced when he was just an infant and he barely visited his mother, nor did he know he had an older half-brother until 2002.

Pressure was on as the girls ran into the gym. The crowd was cheering wildly for their favorite team. These athletes had been preparing for months for this very moment and their stomachs were filled with butterflies. Judges watched carefully as the squad performed a complicated routine of lifts, flips and complex synchronized motions. It was then time to find out the winners of the cheerleading competition.
Cheerleading is thought of by many as a club that only cheers on others, but now this activity is starting to become a true sport that is extremely competitive.

Did you know that you could ride a bike on the same trail as the famous Alaskan sled dog race the Iditarod?

Did you know that having a disability does not stop you from becoming an Olympian? Brian McKeever, from Alberta, Canada, is a cross country skier, and although he is legally blind, he qualified to be on the Canadian Olympic Team.

Duke vs. North Carolina is one of the biggest rivalries in college basketball, and perhaps in all of sports. These teams battle it out twice a season. But these games aren’t just any regular events. These competitions determine the king of Tobacco Road.

As the sun set to the west of Larry Mulvaney Field, the Schenectady Patriots ushered in a new era of football with a dominating win over reigning champs Shenendehowa in a 36-7 upset.

My sister Kerry is a figure skater for the Saratoga Stars.