Big Central Conference finding its groove heading into Year 7, as scheduling takes on increased priority
“Competitive balance.” It’s a phrase that gets thrown around often. The NJSIAA has used it in tweaking the state playoffs in all sports in an attempt to find a level playing field among public schools that can pull from outside their geographic areas and those that don’t. It’s why Phillipsburg will move into Group 5…
After nearly a decade, and a half-million dollars donated, Marisa Tufaro Foundation wraps up its charitable mission
Ten years would have been a nice round number. But so is a half-million dollars. That’s what the Marisa Tufaro Foundation has donated has donated to families and pediatric patients, charitable organizations and scholarship efforts around the state since its founding nine years ago, on July 30, 2017. But all good things must come to…
Ben Donaghy leaves North Plainfield to helm Red Devils baseball
When Tom Blackwell stepped down, retiring as Ridge baseball coach at the end of the Spring – going out as North 2, Group 4 state sectional champions – it was more than just the loss of a coach, but of a Red Devil alum who played for the late, great Pete Hall. His replacement doesn’t…
GMC, Somerset County Tournament Basketball history now live on Central Jersey Sports Radio, as website expands new “History” section beyond football to basketball, baseball
When the popular website Gridiron New Jersey shut down in June, along with it went all of its historical data. Coaches, fans, players – and the media – no longer had access to team schedules and results going as far back as 2003. That was something none of the major media outlets had online, with…
Big Central Conference to kick off 2026 season with 4th annual Media Day at Kean University
Central Jersey Sports Radio will begin its seventh season covering high school football when the Big Central Conference holds its fourth annual Media Day, to be held at the Harwood Arena on the campus of Kean University in union on Wednesday, August 5th. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO OUR INTERVIEW WITH BCC PRESIDENT SCOTT MILLER…
Revisiting the matching of a playoff-era Middlesex County shutout record: another Aquinas team had a similar season before Piscataway
With the closure of Gridiron New Jersey, our work to publish the entire collection of NJSIAA playoff brackets from 1974 to the present left us a lot of research to be done. But we learned a lot about the history of the playoffs in the process. And one of them pertained to an incredible feat…
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