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UC & CSU Budget cuts- $ 1.3 Billion ! How this affects You !
When the Budget for the state of California was approved last week it included CUTS for the state’s 2 university systems, the University of California (10 campuses) and the California State University (23 campuses) . The two systems were EACH cut by $650 million, roughly a 20 percent cut of operating money...
Brooklyn College gets High School MVP in time for Regional Championship!
Each year a dominant all rounder has, perhaps by force of their skills and desire to win, taken their team to the Finals, and even the the NYC High School (PSAL) Cricket Championship. In 2008 and 2009 Robin Das powered Newcomers High school to be repeat Championships. Thakoor Singh took...
4th of July Win for USA ! President celebrates !
It’s the 4th of JULY 2012, Yankee Stadium, New York is packed with 70,000 cricket fans here to see the T20 World Cup Finals pitting the USA against defending Champions England. In May 2010 a huge dust cloud was caused when the English opened their Trophy cabinet for the first...
Stabbed…but not stopped,Return of the Big KB ! & NYCCA First Round Results !
Kavishwar Bridgepaul,NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly It was the end of Valentine’s Day, 2011, two weeks after Kavishwar Bridgepaul had begun college (BMCC), he was about to walk into his friend’s yard, when, as he told me, he was jumped by a gang and stabbed from behind, his gold chain...
Two Sides of Graduation: Tragedy & Celebration
by John A. Aaron One Emerging Sports Star in a Graduation Performance ,another one loses his life: A tale of two talents. In one part of New York City a graduating high school senior is stabbed to death in a parking lot following his just concluded high school graduation ceremony,...
New Star for College & USA rises from Atlantis – Prashant Nair!
During the summer of 2010, when I saw the results from the New York leagues every week, one name popping up – Prashant Nair! At the age of 17, Prashant was playing for the Atlantis Cricket Club and devastating league teams with his leg-spin bowling. In one game he took 8 wickets for 16...
Virginia Tech’s Anthony Frayne on TV-Hokies promote cricket at Festival!
Vice President of the Cricket Club of Virginia Tech Anthony Frayne appeared on TV station WDBJ7 to speak about Virginia Tech’s Cricket team’s particpation on Sat June 25 when The Pulaski Mariners baseball team hosts International Sports Day, which will highlight popular sports across the world like cricket and lacrosse....
Brooklyn’s FDR High School wins NYC PSAL Cricket Championship ! Undefeated !
At the beginning of the 2011 New York City PSAL (Public High School ) Cricket League season Abrar Zafrar scored a century, and at the end of the season he played the key role for his team ! – Coach Gregory Fisher of Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School cautioned his...