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Automotive improved to 5-0 in Brooklyn A West with an 89-44 demolition of Secondary School for Law, Journalism and Research on Monday. Jonathan Delacruz led the Pistons with 16 points and Eli Richardson and Clareld Stabler had 12 apiece.

Coach Will Stasiuk is enjoying the ride. Automotive was expected to return 13 players, but only seven have showed. A few have been injured and others quit. It has made them a small team: Richardson, a 6-foot-5 center, is their tallest player.

“I’m pleasantly surprised with how well we’re playing this year,” Stasiuk said. Read more..

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The area around Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street is an industrial park, a contradictory term for a place that has more concrete-covered factory floors than grassy fields. Yet the term is quite fitting, actually, in another way: This ordinary corner of Bronx blue-collar life was once home to Studs Terkel, who earned fame by writing about people who were utterly devoid of it.

Mr. Terkel, who died last week in his adopted home, Chicago, was born in the Bronx in 1912 and, according to the 1920 census, lived with his family at 1721 Bathgate Avenue, just south of 174th. He did not mention Bathgate in his last memoir, referring only to Clinton Avenue, a few blocks to the east, in a few pages, before shifting his memories to Chicago.

He once said the best interview question was the gentlest: And then what happened? Read more..

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Clinton and running back David Ruiz will look to beat JFK for the first time since 2001 Saturday afternoon. Photo by Ted Levin

By Zachary Braziller October 16, 2008

Forget about the playoff race and the mythological Bronx football title at stake. Ignore the two teams’ winning streaks on the line, three for each side. When FiveBoroSports.com PSAL No. 4 Clinton and No. 5 Kennedy, schools separated by less than two miles, meet Saturday pride will be on the line.

“The records don’t matter to us,” JFK coach Alex Vega said. “If you lose this game, you’ll be miserable for a full year until next year’s game.”

Even when one of the programs is suffering through down times, the games are close. In 2001, the Knights went 0-9, but their best performance was a 21-16 loss to the Governors. Clinton finished 2-7 in a injury-ravaged season last fall, but was right there with JFK until quarterback Peter Goodman went down in a loss, Clinton coach Howard Langley said, gave his young team momentum for this season.

“Let’s get it on today, let’s get it on right now,” Langley said in a phone interview minutes before practice Thursday. “We’re chomping at the bit. My guys don’t talk, but you can see it in their eyes in practice. You can see a little bit extra bounce. Matter of fact, I had to pull them back. They were over emphasizing everything.” Read more..

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For the past three seasons, JFK-Lehman was the biggest game in the Bronx.

Kennedy’s still around, but this year Clinton’s emergence as a contender makes this Saturday’s Knights-Governors showdown a battle for borough supremacy.

“I really respect what coach Langley has done this year,” JFK coach Alex Vega said. I’m looking forward to a tough game from them.”

Both teams enter the game at 5-1. Kennedy routed Lincoln, 32-8, on Saturday with a strong ground game. Ryan Bosolet started and ran for 62 yards. Stephen Obeng-Agyapong ran for 95 yards and a touchdown on four carries and Bryan Calcano and Jamel Lane added rushing touchdowns. Read more..

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