Everything seemed to be in place for the Stuyvesant Peglegs, the boys’ varsity football team, to win their season opener. The five sets of Pier 40 bleachers were filled to capacity as the cheerleaders performed cheers and dance moves. And the Peglegs were finally playing on a field they could call home, kicking off the [...]

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During practice, players from Stuyvesant’s junior varsity football team, the Peglegs, approach their trainers for various reasons. Players ask them to wrap their sore ankles, spray disinfectant on their scabs and toss them their water and Gatorade bottles. However, sophomore Cassandra Lee only asks them to fix her ponytail.
After practice, the players run what seem [...]

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A few months later I became a baseball writer, that luckiest of men, paid to see every day what others have to pay to see occasionally.
Living in the finest hotels, packed with steak and wine, spending the springs in Florida, Arizona, California, Havana, allowed, nay required, to talk continually with the nation’s idols, is he [...]

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Across the country, school systems are failing children. These children are not being left back, they do not score below a 65 in their classes and tests, and they have not racked up dozens of unexplained absences. For the most part, they have done nothing wrong academically. Rather, the bureaucrats hidden away [...]

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A recent report released by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer brought to light surprising discoveries about the activities of the American military in our public schools. The catalyst for the report, entitled “We Want You(th),” was a Stuyvesant student, who brought this important issue to the attention [...]

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Student #1: I got a 92, what’d you get?
Student #2: I got a 96, ha!
Student #1: Did you cheat off me?
Student #2: Yeah.
Student #1: Ah! I want my money!
Student #2: No man, I didn’t cheat off you, I couldn’t even see your paper! It was out of my own intelligence.
Student #1: Sure.
Student #2: And some [...]

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By DAVID DEGUZMAN
Everything seemed to be in place for the Stuyvesant Peglegs, the boys’ varsity football team, to win their season opener. The five sets of bleachers set up were filled to capacity as the cheerleaders performed cheers and dance moves. The Peglegs were finally playing at a field they could call home as [...]

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