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Safety Concerns Has NFL in Decline - The Daily Record - Opinion page - published November 15, 2016
This is the abridged published online version of my article. The newspaper print version is shorter. ​
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Has Football Reached Its Peak?
This is the unabridged version of the above article concerning the NFL ​
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Derek Jeter and Roger Maris: Similar, Different and Unique Yankees - Leaders by Example - NewJerseyNewsroom.com Commentary - published: 2-24-2014  
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Gerry Cooney: Loving Life and Still Punching - This is an expanded article that has been reprinted in a condensed form with permission of The Irish Echo on March 16, 2016. Another condensed form of this article was also reprinted by TAPinto – Your Neighborhood News Online on the same date. 
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Gerry Cooney is Loving Life and Still Punching - This is the condensed article as published in The Irish Echo printed newspaper and online on March 16, 2016. ​​
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Gerry Cooney: Loving Life and Still Punching - UNICO National Magazine - Published: September 2016 Issue
[UNICO National is the largest Italian American organization in the United States. Founded on October 10, 1922, UNICO serves to engage in charitable works, support higher education, and perform patriotic deeds. In the ensuing years UNICO became an acronym that stood for Unity, Neighborliness, Integrity, Charity, and Opportunity.]
​This is the complete unabridged article, which was previously published in a condensed form by The Irish Echo newspaper on March 16, 2016. Another condensed version of this article was also published by 
TAPinto – Your Neighborhood News Online on March 16, 20106. Both condensed versions were published with the prior approval of The Irish Echo newspaper.  
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Gerry Cooney Interview - Q. and A. The former professional heavyweight boxing contender discusses his life and career. ​This interview is a supplement to the Gerry Cooney profile article published in September 2016 issue of UNICO National Magazine. Interview date: 2-8-2016
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Gerry Cooney Interview - Q. and A. The former professional heavyweight boxing contender discusses his life and career. Interview date: 2-8-2016 ​
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Larry Scott - The Passing of Bodybuilding Legend - Profile - NewJerseyNewsroom.com - published: 3-30-2014
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Willie Mays, The Life, The Legend - NewJerseyNewsroom.com - Book Review - published: 3-12-2010     
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Wake-Up Call on Steroids - Unpublished Article - 4-1-2005
[I wrote this non-fiction article to coincide with the opening of the 2005 Major League Baseball season.  This piece asserted that in 2005 there would be a new dimension added to watching baseball that summer.  Sport fans everywhere would be discussing much more than home run hitters, favorite teams, late season trades and Most Valuable Players awards.  These timeless debates would be overshadowed by the dark little melodrama that continued to take center stage: the steroid controversy. I contended that we had been given a wake-up call.  Since so many eyes were finally watching, perhaps steroid use would eventually fade into oblivion. Unfortunately, as I post this piece ten years later, it does not seem the problem has been solved, even with all the rhetoric and drug testing by Major League Baseball. We can only still hope.]     
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Life, Measured by Innings - The Star Ledger - published: 11-9-2001
[Online publication + Newspaper print article with photos]
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New York City Subway World Series: The Return of an Autumn Love Affair - Unpublished Essay - 10-2000 
[I wrote this essay prior to the start of the 2000 (Subway) World Series between the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. It was the first New York Subway Series between two New York teams since 1956. The Yankees won the 2000 World Series 4 games to 1.]
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