Brooklynite Joe McDonald is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of NY Sports Day. Joe is responsible for overseeing the day to day operations, the growth, and expansion of the site.

Besides NY Sports Day, Joe is the Managing Editor of NY Sportscene Magazine and the Assistant Editor of Mets Inside Pitch Magazine.. He is also a regular contributer to Blueshirt Bulletin Magazine.

His work has also been published in the NY Daily News, MLB.com, Arizona Republic, Columbus Dispatch, Detroit Free Press, SportsFan Magazine, Hudson Valley Renegades Official Site and the Albany River Rats official site.

Joe has been on a number of episodes of SNY's Mets Weekly program during the baseball season, while also appearing on From Bums to Cyclones, a video produced by the Brooklyn Cyclones. He also has been on numerous radio programs as a guest.

Currently, he is a member of the New York chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, and has held credentials from most of the area sports teams.

Joe is also a web designer through his company Damocles Designs. He designed this website and other sports outlets on the Internet.

He is 38 and now lives in West Hempstead, NY with his wife, Liz.

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Elio Velez is currently the sports editor, writer and columnist of the award winning Wave Newspaper of Long Island, a weekly publication in Southern Queens and Nassau County. He has written for local and national publications such as the Boston Globe, Associated Press, Rivals.com and others. Also, he is currently an associate editor/writer for New York City Sporting News, a fledgling monthly newspaper devoted to covering local high school, college and professional sports. He now serves as Deputy Editor of NY Sports Day and covers the Jets and St. John's basketball.

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Pete Borriello is the Director of Photography for NY Sports Day. He is a digital photographer specializing in sports photography for about two years. Pete's photos covering high school, professional as well as adult sports leagues have been published in The Wave of Long Island, The Queens Courier, The Queens Times Ledger, and The Aegis of Hartford, Maryland.

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Joe Pietaro is the Editor-in-Chief of New York Sportscene magazine and the Director of Media Relations for the Strong Island Sound of the ABA. In addition, Joe is a freelance sportswriter and contributes a regular column to a number of websites and numerous leagues and teams, including, the USBL (North East Pennsylvania Breakers), IBL, NAFL (New York Predators), and WPFL (Albany Ambush). He has had articles published in, Gotham Baseball Magazine, The New Jersey Daily Record, Breakaway! Monthly magazine, The Canarsie Courier, and The Montauk Sun. Joe is also a weekly sports commentator on Sirius Satellite Radio.

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Dennis is responsible for administrating the forum. He is the contact person and for all forum activities. Dennis is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, majoring in Government and Theater. He is now attending St. John's Law School for his JD, pursuing a career in Sports Law. Denn lives on Long Island.

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Brian Bohl just completed his sophomore year at Hofstra University, where he is majoring in print journalism and political science. His work has apperared in offical publications for the New York Islanders and New York Dragons. Brian is currently a full time columinst for the Hofstra Chronicle and a memember of the news department at WRHU. He is Assistant Editor for NYSD covering the Jets, Islanders and Long Island Ducks.

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John J. Buro, the publisher of Profiles in Sport, is in his second season as the beat writer for both the Knicks and Liberty. His third book, Profiles: Stories From the Sidelines will be out during the winter. Previously, he had authored Deliver Us from Evil and Bite of the Shark -A Baseball Novel. In 2004, he completed his first screenplay, Best Seats in the House.

He maintains a weekly by-line with The Wave of Long Island, and has written for several regional publications, including The Chronicle [Pa.], Gotham Baseball, New York Sportscene and SportsFan Magazine.

He is a past recipient of the George Goldstone Medal of Journalism, and resides in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Derek is a freelance writer that has covered the game of hockey for a few years. He has written previews, recaps, etc. for other websites. He also has worked with hockey personality Stan "The Maven" Fischler. In his time there, he contributed to Fischler's weekly hockey column "The Fischler Report" as well as writing several player profiles for Stan's Detroit Red Wings' book. Derek has also worked for ESPN as an NHL researcher contributing extensive stats research to various telecasts. He serves as Senior Writer for NY Sports Day and covers the New Jersey Devils and Staten Island Yankees.

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Daniel Buontempone (seen here with Doug Jennings) is a writer, moderator, and long-time poster for NY Sports Day. He is a senior marketing major at Hofstra University and wishes to work in the sports marketing or advertising industries. A lifelong Mets die-hard, this NY Sports Day reporter is always 'on location', and you'll find Dan at a ballpark near you.

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Long time poster, James DiMeo, joined the staff of NY Sports Day and moderates all the forums. As his screen name can attest, he resides in Staten Island.

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Mark Healey has covered both the major and minor leagues on both a local and national level since 1998, and his articles have appeared in such publications as the Brooklyn Skyline newspaper and Mets Inside Pitch. His background also includes stints as a producer/reporter and anchor on WSTC-AM (Stamford, CT) and News Director at WRKL-AM (Pomona, NY). Mark is now the Exectutive Editor of Gotham Baseball Magazine and his "On Sports" column appears on NY Sports Day.

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Phil Donohue is a Sports Reporter at WOR Radio and has worked for the station in various capacities for over six years. Currently, he is WOR's Yankee and Ranger beat reporter and can be heard regularly on WOR's Saturday Morning Live doing weekly Yankee features. Throughout the baseball season you can also hear Phil on the WOR Morning Show. In his time at WOR, Phil has covered the Yankees, Rangers, Mets, and Giants, conducting locker room interviews and producing sound for broadcast.

Phil first met NY Sports Day's Editor-in-Chief, Joe McDonald, while covering the Rangers during the 2005-2006 season. He will now serve as the mole inside Yankee Stadium for an internet daily that proudly wears Mets colors in its background.

Phil, 29, was born and raised in Manhattan and now resides in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.

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Russ Rose is a Yankee fan, who got hooked on the Bombers by the Maris-Mantle race for Ruth's HR record. He is the owner of the Yankee Talk Shop message board and writes for his blog,Pride in the Pinstripes, as well as NY Sports Day. During the day Russ, 53, is a retiring police investigator.

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Once upon a time, you rarely saw interviews like Biofiles in newspapers or magazines. Since Scoop created the innovative feature in 1992, similar Q&A's are seemingly almost everywhere now. The self-proclaimed and proud pioneer of puff-piece profiles -- Hey, you don't get nowhere being humble! -- loves every sport but especially boxing and tennis. One-on-one mental and physical warfare is sports at its best. The Teaneck, NJ resident has written Biofiles for The Ring, Boxing Digest, fightnews.com, Boxing News U.K., World Boxing Japan, The Fist (Australia), Boxing World (South Africa) as well as The New York Post, New York Daily News, Orange County Register, MLB.com, The Sporting News, NASCAR Scene, Tennis Week, Track & Field News, Full Contact Fighter, Hockey Digest, Basketball Times, Don King publications, and The Daily Racing Form.

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Gary Harding is a former President of the New York Islanders Booster Club, as well as a long time Mets and Jets fan. His baseball loyalties have recently changed to the Ducks, because of the close proximity to his Halesite, Long Island home. He is also a co-host of the NY Hockey Report with Joe McDonald and an Islander season ticket holder. When he is not at hockey games, he is in Operations for a major rental car company, and bowled a perfect 300 game on May 4, 1994.

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David Freeman covers Major League Baseball in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. He serves "occasionally" as an Official Scorer at both Yankee and Shea Stadiums, serves "not so occasionally" as the Official Scorer for the Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees, and is the PA Announcer for LIU Basketball, Iona Basketball, and St. John's Baseball. With the minor league baseball season completed and the Yankees quick exit out of this year's postseason, Federal Law Enforcement officials asked NY SportsDay to provide him tickets to the NLCS and World Series or send him to Giants Stadium to cover Big Blue. We chose the latter.

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Arben is the publisher of BoxingTribune.com, as well as a staff writer for NY Sports Day. His work has been featured on CBSsportsline.com, Sportsbook.com, SaddoBoxing.com, and 15rounds.com while breaking through the ranks as the New York.s fastest rising boxing/video reporter, photographer, and interviewer, working with some of the top fighters. Arben's Sweet Science form showed when he released the first installment of his documentary series, Between The Ropes, to rave reviews. As a weekly radio show host on, The Boxing Show, he generated over twenty thousand listeners a week.

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Greg Wyshynski's weekly sports and culture column 'The Jester's Quart' has been published on the web since 1997. A native of the Garden State (Exit 120), he is the features editor for SportsFan Magazine and sports editor of The Connection Newspapers of Northern Virginia. He firmly believes that the only difference between Gary Bettman and a donkey is that you can't --as of now-- ride Bettman to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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Recently graduating from Kingsborough Community College, where he was Editor-In-Chief and Production Editor of the school's newspaper, The Scepter, for a year and a half, Patrick Hickey Jr is ready to hit the internet Journalism scene by storm. In addition to covering the 2005-2006 Prospect Camp of the New York Islanders during his short time at Scepter, Hickey also got one on one interviews with New York Mets Third Baseman David Wright and professional wrestling legends Harley Race and Diamond Dallas Page. Hickey also became the first Editor-In-Chief in the school's history to get a gold medal in the Columbia University College Newspaper Critique, just missing out on All-American honors and won the school's Journalism and Print Media Program Award in 2006, which is given to the best college Journalist in the school.

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Francine Russo, a Brooklyn native, is a lifelong Yankee fan, who recently discovered the New York Liberty and the WNBA. She graduated from Hunter College with a BA in Communications . Media. She is a Supervisor for a prestigious NYC CPA firm, where she edits financial statements. In her spare time, she is obsessed with the Broadway musical Wicked!

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Anthony Mastantuoni (seen here with his wife Roe on their wedding day – October 8, 2005) covers the New York Rangers for Blueshirt Bulletin. He spent 10 years writing two columns for Ranger Fan Central prior to covering the Rangers for NY Sports Day. Anthony also provided online coverage (U.S. College Hockey Online), print coverage (USA College Hockey Magazine) and some Internet broadcasting (play-by-play, color and in-between period commentary) for Iona College’s Division I ice hockey team for three years prior to Iona’s eliminating the program in 2003. Anthony earned his B.A. in Journalism and History from Iona College in 1988.

Born and raised in Mount Vernon, NY, Anthony currently resides in Pelham, NY with his wife, Roe.

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A former Met trainer from 1985-91, Bob Sikes is working on a book about the team during that era called Getting Paid To Watch. He also produces a blog of the same name, as well as writing articles about the Mets of the 1980s for NY Sports Day. Currently, Bob is a high school teacher in Florida, where he coaches girls soccer.

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Bob Lazzari is an award-winning sports columnist for the Valley Times in Derby, CT. A Fordham graduate, Bob's weekly column "Lazzari's Sports Roundup" is published in the Valley Times as well as NY Sports Day. He also has a site, where you can read many of his past columns.

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At 44, no one except Gordon's wife, has ever seen him without a Camera around his neck Having played High School football, baseball and soccer, a football injury caused it all to come to an end. After a brief stint on the Regional Pro Bowling Tour, Gordon went back to his first love, Photography. His work has appeared in The Newark Star Ledger, Wresting's Main Event, Wrestling World, Metal Edge Magazine, Newark Bears baseball cards / programs / ads / Web site and his own web page, Newark Bears Fan Club which he is also president of. Being one who is a fan of good players more than any one team, he can be found rooting for The Newark Bears, Mets, Islanders, Giants, Texans and all their affiliates. He can also be found shooting bands playing the local club scene.

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Melissa Catanese is the Art Director for New York Sportscene magazine and in addition, is a photographer for the publication. Melissa has earned her BFA in Graphic Design from Briarcliffe College. She has been shooting professional sporting events and studio photography for the past three years. Melissa is also a graphic artist for Sportscene's sister publication, Paintball Sports Magazine. She is an arts and photography enthusiast. You can find Melissa at The Meadowlands, Shea Stadium, Madison Square Garden and Nassau Coliseum doing what she loves-capturing the action at all the hottest sporting events in the tri-state area.

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Mike Delgado is NYSD's Director of Photography Pete Borriello assistant when covering the New York Jets. Mike is responsibe for the secondary shots, while Pete is covering the game action.

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Loyola graduate, Christina Santucci is currently a photographer/reporter for the Queens Courier. She has also interned for the Baltimore Sun, worked in Cagli, Italy on the Cagli Project and even had photo journalism assignments in Russia. WIthin photography, she enjoys shooting street photography, religion-centered projects, travel photos, and sports the most.

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Amanda Grasso has been a photographer for the past 4 years, speacalizing in black and white portraits and still life. She is currently working freelance having done event assignments for the Wave of Long Island as well as covering the Brooklyn Cyclones for NYSD. Amanda also swam competitively since she was 10 years old and continued until a shoulder inury ended her career while swimming for Wagner College. Amanda is a fulltime photographer for Borriello Photography.

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Rich recently started working as a photographer covering hockey, softball, baseball, football & soccer. Rich's real passion is drag racing. Rich has been building race cars as well as motorcycles for the past 12 years. He describes himself as a general motorsports enthusiest. His photos have been published in the Wave of Long Island as well as NYSD. Rich is a fulltime photographer for Borriello Photography.

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Tony Kalaj is one of most sought after and popular photographer in the Northeast. Shooting for every top promoter, he has photographed all the game's top fighters in action, and his photos can be found exclusively here. Tony has also been the executive producer of the critically acclaimed documentary series, Between The Ropes.

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Derryn has been an avid Yankee fan since 1976. He is moderating the Yankee forum. He's 37 and lives on Long Island. When he's not supporting Mr. Steinbrenner, he works at the real Evil Empire, the IRS.

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Marie, a 20 yr old college junior has been infused with Mets history while growing up. Altough she'll never be the first born son of the family, she prides herself on her ability to be a cool chick who enjoys sports and other male hobbies. She moderates the NY Dragons' forum.

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Matt is the Technical Guru of the site. He takes care of the day to day upkeep of the systems and helped design the site. Matt lives in Pennsylvania.

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David Roman, 35, moderates the Knicks and Jets forum. Born, raised, and residing in Brooklyn, this federal government executive is married, with one son.

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