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Kyle Monangai

Posted on October 1, 2026October 1, 2026 by njsports

Sport: FootballBorn: June 6, 2002Town: Roseland, New Jersey Kyle Monangai was born June 6, 2002 in the Essex County town of Roseland, NJ. His parents, Continue Reading

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Olivia Miles

Posted on September 30, 2026September 30, 2026 by njsports

Sport: Basketball  Born: January 29, 2003 Town: Phillipsburg Olivia Rose Miles was born January 29, 2003 in Summit and grew up in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Olivia Continue Reading

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Tony Riccio

Posted on May 25, 2026May 25, 2026 by njsports

Sport: BoxingBorn: August 30, 1926Died: September 23, 2008Town: Bayonne, New Jersey Anthony Riccio was born August 30, 1926 in Bayonne, NJ. He was orphaned as Continue Reading

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Frank Vogel

Posted on May 24, 2026May 24, 2026 by njsports

Sport: BasketballBorn: June 21, 1973Town: Wildwood Crest, New Jersey Frank Paul Vogel was born June 21, 1973 in Wildwood Crest, NJ.  He grew up in the Continue Reading

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Amanda Anisimova

Posted on July 13, 2025December 27, 2025 by njsports

Sport: TennisBorn: August 31, 2001Town: Freehold Township, New JerseyAmanda Kay Victoria Anisimova was born August 31, 2001 in Freehold Township, NJ. Her parents, Olga and Continue Reading

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New Jersey Baseball: A Brief History

Posted on June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 by njsports

If you believe the old story, organized baseball “started” in New Jersey in 1846. On June 19th of that year, the Knickerbocker Club played the Continue Reading

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Dylan Harper

Posted on June 19, 2025September 30, 2026 by njsports

Sport: BasketballBorn: March 2, 2006Town: Franklin Lakes, NJ Dylan Harper was born March 2, 2006 in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. He was born to Ron Continue Reading

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Rutgers Basketball: A Brief History

Posted on May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 by njsports

The earliest games of basketball on the Rutgers campus took place in 1906 under the leadership of head coach Frank Gorton. After a couple seasons Continue Reading

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Hook Anderson

Posted on January 18, 2025January 18, 2025 by njsports

Sport: BasketballBorn: April 8, 1912Died: September 23, 1975Town: Hoboken, New Jersey Hagan Andersen was Born April 8, 1912 in Hoboken. His parents, Lars and Inge, Continue Reading

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Fred Gieg

Posted on January 18, 2025January 18, 2025 by njsports

Sport: Basketball, Baseball & FootballBorn: February 7, 1890Died: April 29, 1966Town: Millville, New Jersey Louis Frederick Grieg was born February 7, 1890 in Millville. The town Continue Reading

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Arthur A. Carrington, Jr. was born January 4, 1947 in Elizabeth, NJ. At the age of 10, Art learned to play at Elizabeth’s now-defunct North End Tennis Club, encouraged by his mother. In the 1950s, North End had two courts and functioned as a social hub for African-American professionals in central New Jersey. The club produced players who competed in the American Tennis Association (ATA), the “black” parallel to the powerful US Lawn Tennis Association. Sydney Llewellyn, who coached Althea Gibson, gave clinics there and was Art’s first coach. Gibson was the top-ranked player in the late-1950s.
Art attended Jefferson High in Elizabeth, which had a strong sports program. Among his classmates was Ron Freeman, a sprinter who won gold in the 1968 Olympics. Art started on the basketball team and distinguished himself in tennis as and one of the best junior competitors in the country, attending the nationals for the first time at the age of 15. He was undefeated as a junior and senior for the Minutemen and, in 1965, became the recipient of the first athletic scholarship offered by Hampton College in Virginia.
Hampton was part of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, made up of historically black colleges. Art entered the CIAA tennis championships in the spring of his freshman year. He reached the finals, but lost to senior Joe Williams of NC Central. Art won the CIAA singles title each of the next three years and graduated in 1968.
Men’s tennis was by and large an amateur sport in the late-1960s, with the first US “Open” played a few months after Art’s graduation. Although trained to be a schoolteacher, he was determined to make a living in the sport he loved. The Westfield Indoor Tennis Club was looking to hire its first pro and Art got the job. He continued to compete in local tournaments and entered ATA events; in the early 1970s was regarded as America’s #2 African-American tennis player, behind Arthur Ashe. Art was known for his elegant strokes and exquisite footwork.
In 1972, Art played Horace Reid in the first-ever televised ATA singles championship, losing a close five-set match in Boston. The following year, Art won the ATA singles title. Technically, this should have resulted in an invitation to play in the US Open at Forest Hills—either in the main draw or in qualifying. A paperwork mix-up resulted in neither, drawing the attention of the press and putting the USLTA in a potentially tricky position. The problem was solved when a player dropped out of the main draw and Art was slotted into a first-round match-up against Ove Benyson, a big-serving veteran who played for Sweden’s Davis Cup team. Art fell in straight sets, playing on grass for the first time since 1966. His previous experience on grass came at the Orange Tennis Club as the guest of a white member.
In 1980, Art—a proponent of a “whole body” approach to tennis—opened his own academy, on the campus of Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Over the next four-plus decades, more than 3,000 students sharpened their skills under Art’s eye, and the eye of his son, Lex, who followed in his father’s footsteps. In 1985, Art caught the collecting bug, acquiring stacks of newspapers covering black tennis and ATA tournaments. His passion for research culminated in a traveling exhibit and short film created with the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI and a book, published in 2009, entitled Black Tennis, An Archival Collection: 1890-1962. ... See MoreSee Less

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Happy 78th birthday to Billy Paultz!

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