It’s official: St. Joseph-Metuchen names Tim Corrigan new boys’ basketball coach in wake of Mark Taylor’s resignation
In 1993, St. Joseph-Metuchen won its first Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament boys’ basketball title, with a young man named Tim Corrigan on the squad. Now, 33 years later, he is the program’s new head coach, it was announced Wednesday afternoon by the school in a press release. He replaces fellow alum Mark Taylor, who resigned last Friday. Corrigan signed a contract with St. Joe’s Wednesday morning, and is working on assembling a coaching staff for the upcoming season, which gets underway with practices in less than two months – on November 30th – while the season can officially start as…
With Taylor gone from St. Joseph, Corrigan leaving Aquinas, where does it leave them, and GMC boys’ and girls’ basketball?
The first announcement was enough to send some shockwaves through the girls’ basketball community in Middlesex county, and came out on a football Friday in the fall, rather than in the Spring or Summer: third-year St. Thomas Aquinas girls’ basketball coach Tim Corrigan was leaving to become as assistant at his alma mater, St. Joseph of Metuchen, in the boys’ side. This is the same Trojan program that has won seven straight GMC Tournament championships with very talented players, over three coaches and two school names: the first under Brittney Griffin as Bishop Ahr, the next three under Joe Whalen…
After just one year in second run, Mark Taylor is out as St. Joseph-Metuchen head coach
When former St. Joseph-Metuchen standout Mark Taylor – Class of 1983 – was hired for a second go ’round with the Falcons back in April of 2025, the news was a big splash in the world of high school basketball in New Jersey. A standout in the ’80s, he later coached the school in the 90s, responsible for several D1 college players, most notably Jay Williams. And after a year with Karl Towns, Sr., the father of the school’s biggest name since Williams, Karl-Anthony Towns, leading the program to disastrous effect – the team floundered as he often missed games…
Dennis McNulty to take the reins at New Brunswick boys’ basketball
When Dennis McNulty stepped down as the boys’ basketball coach at Timothy Christian in Piscataway after six seasons and unprecedented success, the next question was “Where would he land?” The short answer was at Rutgers Prep, where he signed on as an assistant this past season for Matt Bloom, who’d also been having a successful […]
Rutgers Prep tabs Associate Head Coach, alum Will Abrams as new boys’ basketball coach
Rutgers Prep has tabbed former player and current associate head coach Will Abrams as the new boys’ basketball coach, succeeding Matt Bloom after his nine years.
Rutgers Prep boys basketball coach Matt Bloom steps down after nine years leading the Argonauts
There will be two new head coaches on the hardwood this upcoming season at Rutgers Prep. Matt Bloom, the Argonauts’ boys basketball head coach, announced on Instagram Friday afternoon that he will step down from the position after nine years at the helm. Bloom led Rutgers Prep to three Somerset County championships and seven finals appearances, and was named CJSR’s Boys Coach of the Year in 2022 after winning the Non-Public South A sectional championship and making the state final. A successor was not announced at the time of publishing. His statement reads as follows: “After much reflection, I have…
A few personal thoughts on the loss of a great reporter, and an even better man, Greg Tufaro
When Greg Tufaro, the longtime Middlesex County sportswriter, passed away this Monday, the news was a shock to many. But it really shouldn’t have been. Not to say we all expected it. No one did. But so few people knew he was even sick. I had heard about it second hand. When we spoke exactly […]
Longtime Middlesex County sportswriter, founder of Marisa Tufaro Foundation, Greg Tufaro passes away
For some three decades, if there was a story to be found in the sports world and beyond in Middlesex County – sometimes the story behind the story – Greg Tufaro was the guy who would have it. And for the past nine years, if there was a good cause, the Marisa Tufaro Foundation – […]
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 an end, and the group’s founders have announced the end of the Marisa Tufaro Foundation’s charitable mission. It was created by longtime Home News Tribune/MyCentralJersey sportswriter Greg Tufaro and his wife, Cyndi, in memory of their daughter, Marisa, who tragically passed away in January of…
JFK’s Grant Lorentzen proves you can do it all, and be very good at it, too
Hitting a major milestone in any high school sport is a big deal. Often, the game will stop, the ball will come out of play, and there are balloons and photo ops, then the game goes on. For Grant Lorentzen, who’s just graduated from JFK in Iselin last week, he hit key milestones in not just one, nor two, but three high school sports. In an era where more and more student-athletes are specializing – playing just one sport, and then training the rest of the year in that sport – Lorentzen is a throwback, but also an example. Lorentzen…
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