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  In 1968, after the tragic assassination of his brother, New York Senator Robert Kennedy, as the people of this nation reeled from shock, Ted Kennedy delivered the eulogy at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

I was among the people who listened as he declared: “My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”

 The Kennedy brothers had a special relationship with New York. I saw it in the eyes of thousands as they greeted  presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in a ticker tape parade up lower Broadway in 1960. I marveled at the enthusiasm of the crowds as they surged around the open convertible bearing the couple. Clearly people related to this handsome, smiling young man and his beautiful wife. As they rode up the Canyon of Heroes, it was almost like we were witnessing the prelude to a coronation, as indeed it was.

Earlier I was with Jack Kennedy at a rally in the Bronx on Fordham Road and the Concourse when he told the crowd: “I come to the Bronx as an old Bronx boy. I used to live in the Bronx.”

Ted Kennedy: In His Own Words
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The Morris and Jane Addams baseball teams have had their ups and down since moving up to Class A, winning their fair share of league games but also seeing the losses pile up. Overall, each coach has said, the change has benefited his program.

Riverdale/Kingsbridge is just as happy.

The Tigers, without those two rivals to deal with, have enjoyed quite a season. They are 9-0, all alone in first place in Bronx B North, two games clear of second-place Bronx Science.

Coach Mac Psachie credits basic winning tenets – pitching and defense – for his team’s continued success. Read more..

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Guard Dashaun Wiggins scored 34 points to lead Wings Academy past South Bronx, 103-84, in the Bronx borough semifinals

Dashaun Wiggins was still licking his wounds days after one of the worst losses of his young career, when his spirits were suddenly lifted.

He was heading back to his apartment in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx when he ran into Julio Gonzalez, a local boxing trainer Wiggins spars with during the summer to stay in shape. Gonzalez heard of the lopsided defeat, a 23-point blowout to John F. Kennedy on Jan. 22, and offered his advice.

“Sometimes a good boxer needs to get knocked out,” Gonzalez said. Read more..

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             No. 1 John F. Kennedy and guard Jeffrey Arzu have won 11 straight entering the Bronx borough playoffs

   You can call this the John F. Kennedy Invitational. The top-seeded Knights are the clear-cut favorite. Of any of the four borough tournaments, them not winning would be the biggest surprise.

That’s not an indictment of the other seven participants; it’s praise for Kennedy.

No. 2 Wings Academy has righted the ship recently, playing better on the defensive end. No. 3 Truman got better as the year went on and No. 4 Lehman has a dynamic inside-out duo in center Armand (Big Baby) Thomas and guard Aaron Barnes. Class A high-scoring entrants South Bronx, Evander Childs and Taft could make trouble for the higher seeds as well.

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Wings Academy guard Dashaun Wiggins scored 15 points, but it was his big rebound late that clinched the 80-78 victory over JFK. Photos by Damion Reid

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Dashaun Wiggins saw the ball come out of James Blue’s fingertips and immediately thought rebound. Blue, Wiggins said, has a tendency to shoot long, and he twisted his right wrist, another sign the junior said, that it would come off the back rim.

He slightly nudged Kelvin Dixon, John F. Kennedy’s 6-foot-6 forward, and out-leaped him. Wiggins came away with the rebound, but in essence the game. He knocked down two free throws, sealing Wings Academy’s 80-78 victory over Kennedy at Bronx Regional HS. The win moves the Wings into first place in Bronx AA by their lonesome.

“This gives us a lot of confidence,” said junior forward Krystian Foriest, who had 15 points and nine rebounds. “It lets everybody know we’re back and we’re here to rule the Bronx.” Read more..

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