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Arena Football Returning To Region Without Ex-Owner Antonio Brown, Report Says Arena Football Returning To Region Without Ex-Owner Antonio Brown, Report Says
Arena Football Returning To Region Without Ex-Owner Antonio Brown, Report Says Arena football will make a return to the region, albeit with a potentially new name and without embattled ex-owner Antonio Brown, Albany station CBS 6 reports. The team will be resurrected in 2024, months after the Albany Empire was dropped by the National Arena League (NAL) over Brown’s refusal to pay his required league dues, new team president Jeff Levack told the outlet Thursday, Sept. 28. “He confirmed that arena football will return to MVP Arena this upcoming season,” the station’s sports director, AJ Pankowski said on the X platform, formerly Twitter. “The ownership group is local,”…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Area Native Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History Area Native Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History
Area Native Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History The UConn women's basketball team will make history with an NCAA record 12th consecutive Final Four appearance when it faces Notre Dame on Friday night, April 5. That’s two more than John Wooden’s UCLA men's teams managed.  So many people share in this moment and hope for an unprecedented 12th title in a span of only 25 years. Among them is Fairfield native Elliot Herman. The Fairfield Ludlowe grad (Class of ’15), who is now a senior at UConn majoring in Communications with a Marketing minor, has served as one of several student managers for the team over the past two years. Herman h…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz
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Ex-Football Standout Nicolas De La Pava, Area Barbershop Owner, 23 Ex-Football Standout Nicolas De La Pava, Area Barbershop Owner, 23
Ex-Football Standout Nicolas De La Pava, Area Barbershop Owner, 23 Nicolas De La Pava, a football standout at the high school and collegiate levels who went on to start his own business in Northern Westchester, died on Tuesday, Aug. 7 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was 23. A North Salem resident, he was born in Tarrytown on June 6, 1995 to Mario De La Pava and Luz Myriam De La Pava.  Nick attended Bedford Hills Elementary School and then Fox Lane High School, where he was a varsity football star.  Upon graduating from Fox Lane, he attended the SUNY Cortland, where he was a tight end on the football team. He graduated from Cortland in…

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