Roger Rubin
Reporter at Newsday
Covering sports for @NewsdaySports. Previously worked at Sports Illustrated and The New York Daily News.
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6 days ago |
newsday.com | Roger Rubin
The pitching was once again strong. The slumbering lumber awakened for a bit. The baserunning was smart and sharp. The Mets got a little bit of everything on Thursday night as they kicked off a seven-game home stand in style with a 4-1 victory over St. Louis on Thursday night before 38,246 at Citi Field.
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6 days ago |
newsday.com | Roger Rubin
Scoring runs was supposed to be – and maybe will be – one of the Mets’ strengths this season. So far, not so much. Pete Alonso is off to a tremendous start at the plate and carried a .365/.474/.730 slash line into Thursday night’s game against the Cardinals at Citi Field, but the same cannot be said for the rest of the team. Entering play the Mets team batting average of .219 was 13th out of 15 National League teams. They’ve been especially poor with runners in scoring position.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Roger Rubin
St. John’s got its first dividend to come from last weekend’s parade of recruits on Wednesday when Stanford transfer Oziyah Sellers committed to join the Red Storm. Sellers is part of coach Rick Pitino’s offseason mission to improve the team’s biggest weakness from last season: shooting. The 6-5 guard made 40% of his three-point attempts as he averaged 13.7 points in his junior season for the Cardinal. And as it turns out, Pitino figured prominently in Sellers’ offseason mission.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Roger Rubin
Newsday's annual look at the top Long Island high school boys tennis players for this season, listed in alphabetical order. Eric Benderly (Sr.) and Jeffrey Behar (Sr.), CommackTheir play in singles was a key reason Commack won the 2024 Suffolk large school title. Benderly then teamed with James Yu to win the county individual doubles title, take third place in the state tournament and earn an All-Long Island selection. Behar is a crafty player with the smarts to find an opponent’s weaknesses.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Roger Rubin
Zuby Ejiofor looks natural crashing the backboards for St. John’s at the Garden. However the Red Storm star looked very out of place on Wednesday afternoon on the pitcher’s mound at Citi Field. That was right until he made a smooth delivery of the ceremonial first pitch that went over the plate and into the glove of former Mets star and St. John’s alumnus John Franco as most of the 2024-25 Storm and coach Rick Pitino stood in a semicircle behind the catcher’s box.
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RT @PIT_Basketball: Our next announcement is a playmaker from @StJohnsBBall! Welcome Deivon Smith (@sneakgod) #PIT25 https://t.co/CpSUXtrfl6
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On St. John's: Ejiofor's perfect pitch; Coveted transfers to visit the Storm; Wilcher's loyalty pledge; and how Richmond and Scott heroically played through pain. @NewsdaySports story: https://t.co/MMHAtrwuXv. #sjubb
