Cortney Kelly

My favorite image from last night

Favorite video yet is Dan Hurley's mom after The Shot: "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!"

@WHCoach_Costa @lauren_dunn15 @abbyy_martinn I love this for them!

Full circle moment today as ‘22 captains @lauren_dunn15 and @abbyy_martinn closed out their decorated college careers as teammates one last time in the NEWBA Senior All-Star game 🏀💫 ⚫️⚪️🔴🐾

Girls Hoop made WBZ this am‼️🏀🔴⚪️⚫️🐾 vimeo.com/1172988033/a6e…

NEW: The dying wish of an Orange County, California, man has come true: To watch his daughter graduate high school. Bill Kerwin is battling Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is not expected to survive much longer. After his health began to deteriorate, 16 of his closest friends decided to take action by holding an early Huntington Beach High School graduation ceremony for his daughter. His daughter, Abbi Kerwin, was seen holding his hand as she accepted her diploma. "You are the best man I've ever met, and I am so proud to receive my diploma from you," his daughter said through tears. God bless them. Video: CBS LA

Caitlin Clark is the biggest star in the WNBA. Sophie Cunningham is a close second. Nobody else even comes close.

They're going to tell their grandchildren all about the party that they just left in the Costco parking lot. I can't stop smiling

In all my years of broadcasting, I'd never gotten emotional on air until tonight. It was impossible to hold back the tears. Jack Piccione of Tappan Zee lost his father suddenly last Sept. 1. Matthew Piccione died of a heart attack minutes after playing pickleball with friends. He was 51. Over the last three years, I got to know Matthew Piccione fairly well. One day back in 2023, he asked coach George Gaine for my number so he could call me just to say thank you for calling out Jack's contributions during Tappan Zee's championship run. Jack was a role player who averaged maybe 5 points a game as a freshman. But he started and never came off the court. "I know he doesn't score a lot of points," Matthew Piccione said. "But you are one of the only people who appreciates what he does for the team." Matthew Piccione kept a very low profile at games and reinforced in his son to be the emodiment of all the things that make Tappan Zee basketball different than any other program in the state. Play unselfish. Defend. Be coachable. Defend. Draw charges. Pass. Sacrifice for your teammates. And, of course, defend some more. Nobody in the history of Tappan Zee basketball since I have been covering has ever played that role better than Jack Piccione. He's the best best defensive player in the program and is on an elite level of players I've been around in Section 1. When Matthew died in September, I worried about Jack. I wondered what his senior season might be like. The person most responsible for instilling and reinforcing the values that made Jack great was now tragically gone. Tonight, Jack Piccione scored 5 points in the Section 1 Championship game. FIVE. Yet not only did his team because of his performance, I had the honor of handing him the MVP Trophy to prove it. In the final 90 seconds of the game, I shared the story of Matthew Piccione and his passing. You will hear the emotion in my voice. It's genuine, not because of any relationship I had with him. You just can't be a sports parent and not relate to loving your child and always wanting what's best for them. Because here's what I am going to tell you. And I really want all parents to read this and remember it: Your kids' youth - not just athletics, but all of it - is short and it's precious. You don't get this time back when it's over. It goes way too quick. And some don't even get to see it to the end. You have a choice: You can spend this period of their lives stressing about how many points they score, what awards or accolades they receive, begging people to vote in the online poll for Player of the Week, emailing the coach and complaining about playing time or lamenting the number of shots they get in a game. Go ahead. You can make all of that important for yourself and your child. Trust me, you won't be alone in doing so. Or you can do what Matthew Piccione did. Sit in the stands and enjoy watching your children compete. Teach them that it's team above all else, stress what it means to sacrifice and ensure them that, when you do those things and have success, the feeling of hanging a banner will far exceed any of the personal accolades think are important. And, sadly, God might choose that you won't be around to see it all anyway. Matthew didn't get to give his son a hug after he won tonight. And Jack didn't get to see the pride in his father's face. Think about that. If you are a parent, try to put your child in Jack's shoes. If God forbid your child was confronted with the same tragedy, you'd want them looking back on this sacred period of their lives the way Jack will forever recall them with his dad. Tonight was complete validation for Jack Piccione and all of the things his father always told him. Jack scored 5 points and won the MVP on his way to becoming the most decorated basketball player in Tappan Zee history. Nobody has ever won more in a TZ uniform than the most unselfish player they've ever had. He wouldn't trade his career with anyone, either. Take a moment to listen to myself and Pleasantville coach Nick Bonura from tonight's @SportsEngine broadcast of @TZeeAthletics @TZhoops

@FSURamsWBB @WHCoach_Costa @TrevorHass My heart can’t take these games! Poor Liam at the end covering his ears lol

@WHCoach_Costa @TrevorHass Congratulations coach!

#2 Girls Hoop (22-2) heading back to the Final Four‼️ 🔴⚪️⚫️🏀🐾

Norwell with the buzzer beater to beat Swampscott!! MADNESS!!!

That kid doesn’t know it now but someday he’s gonna be all grown up, facing life and look back and realize that’s the happiest he ever was ❤️

@WHCoach_Costa @TarynLeonard12 @abbyy_martinn @mascacsports Woo hoo! Congrats, guys!

Congrats to former captains @TarynLeonard12 and @abbyy_martinn on winning the @mascacsports championship yesterday and brining it home for the Alma mater‼️🟡⚪️⚫️🏀🐏🏆

@WHCoach_Costa Awesome! We’ll be there!

@CKelly13FSChoop Wednesday night 6pm v Fontbonne!!

Game Day‼️ MIAA State Tournament - Round of 32 #2 Girls Hoop (19-2) 🆚 #31 Dartmouth (10-11) ⏰12pm 📍Whitman Hanson HS 🔴⚪️⚫️🐾🏀

Meet the universally loved reporter Nick Gallo. He’s going to look back at this someday as some of the best times of his life. ❤️

Well, that's different. Not sure it's really needed, but having the option seems interesting. Car turns into camper mode with a button. Would it make you want one, or is this just another gimmicky idea where the fashion is over function.

@ThePlymouthBuff That means death, right? That’s so sad! I walk out there sea glassing all year.

8-1 AT1 and A5 are E/R to the Point at the end of Long Beach for a Reported Sudden. Updates to follow

There’s a multipart series unfolding on TikTok of a group of seniors upset their friend Barbara has been cheating at Mah Jong. I’ve been riveted

A woman asked her boss if he remembered how to skip. What he does next will make your day

This is it!!!!