July 7, 1994
Gene Washington, a four-time all-pro wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers who is the National Football League’s director of development, heeded his friend Peter Goodson’s call to work out Friday with an enthusiastic group of Bonac football players whom Goodson is schooling in the 49ers’ passing offense this summer.
Goodson, a retired mergers and acquisitions specialist who has been praised in business journals for turning companies around, has lately been putting a lot of energy into guiding young people.
As a young man in East Los Angeles, he got into a couple of scrapes with the law, and he has said he began to turn his life around by winning an athletic scholarship to Stanford University.
. . . Washington is one of several of Goodson’s friends expected to work out with the flag football group this summer. The others are Brian Holloway, a former three-time all-pro offensive lineman with the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Raiders, and Steve Williams, a former multi-world-record-holding sprinter, who has served as a speed coach for the New York Mets, the New York Jets, and the Patriots.
July 21, 1994
Seven lucky East Hampton High School linemen were put through their paces by a former three-time all-pro offensive tackle, Brian Holloway, at Friday’s flag football session.
“I’m trying to teach them an attitude,” said the quiet-spoken 6-foot-7-inch, 300-pound Holloway after the hour-and-a-half workout. “I’m trying to teach them the love and passion for the sport. I’m saying they should take risks, play hard, and play to win, and that the more they develop that attitude, the faster their technical skills will develop.”
And with that, Holloway, patiently but unremittingly, put the offensive linemen through a series of increasingly demanding pass-blocking, downfield-pursuit, pulling-guard, and blitz-blocking drills designed to give them an edge when the season begins.
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The East Hampton Star’s co-ed softball team — hitting throughout the lineup, and with “only one or two ringers” — defeated The Southampton Press 7-2 at the Bridgehampton School last Thursday.
Just off a heady 6-5 win over Dan’s Papers, The Press immediately called for a rematch. “Losing’s not everything — it’s the only thing,” said The Press’s sportswriter, Bryant Carpenter.
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Tacklers were sliding and bodies were flying for two hours and 10 minutes at East Hampton’s Herrick Park July 13 as the East Hampton-Bayberry and Costa Rica soccer teams vied in the Wednesday evening seven-on-a-side playoff final.
Ordinarily, 7-on-7 games, which resemble indoor soccer without the boards, are over in an hour, but the playoff final lasted through regulation, two 10-minute overtime periods, and an indeterminate “sudden death” period which ended after 45 minutes when Carlos Vargas, after receiving a through pass from Walt (Cricket) Chavarria, banged a ground-hugging shot from about 10 yards out that beat Bob Moss and East Hampton-Bayberry 2-1.
It was Costa Rica’s second playoff championship in a row. The team, whose lineup, besides Vargas and Chavarria, included Carlos Solis, Renzo Rueda, Geraldo Morales, Oswaldo Palomo, and Ricardo Mendez, the goalie, defeated East Hampton-Bayberry in the fall season playoff final as well.
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Tom Green saw Tom Green on television the other night as he, his sister, Demi Reichart, her husband, Randy, and Claude Beudert, an East Hampton High School teacher and friend, gathered at the Grill on Newtown Lane in East Hampton.
“It was kind of awkward,” said the tall, handsome 35-year-old Denver resident, who emcees a nightly sports game show on ESPN. “I’m not big on watching myself, but it was also kind of fun. With my sister’s help, a couple of people noticed me,” he said with a smile.
. . . Green graduated from East Hampton High School in 1976. After graduating from Ithaca College, he received a grant to teach television production for two years to high school students here, using the Bonac Broadcasting System as a vehicle.
Following his stint here, Green got a job “as a go-fer” at the ABC affiliate in New Haven, Conn., where he “learned how to edit, direct, and other stuff. I got to go out on some news stories, but mostly I made sure that everyone got their correct dinner.”
. . . As the weekend sports anchor for Denver’s ABC affiliate, KUSA-TV, Green covers all of the professional Denver teams — the Broncos, the Nuggets, and Rockies — as well as top golfing and skiing events.
. . . “One of the biggest treats is watching John Elway practice. He is the most amazing athlete, in every way. A lot of what he does people don’t see, such as his leadership. And I think people tend to take for granted that he throws the ball so well. His accuracy is to within inches, not feet. He throws the ball so hard. And he’s not all caught up with himself.”
July 28, 1994
Unleashing all its firepower, which included five home runs by four players, Fred’s Big Guns riddled Riverhead Building Supply, the East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball league’s number-two team, to the tune of 17-12 at the Terry King ball field Tuesday night.
The big win enabled the Guns to remain undefeated, at 15-0, and, for the moment at least, dispersed any doubt that this team is indeed the king of the hill.