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Joey Giordano burst on the scene as a freshman at Pascack Hills and went on to lead the Broncos to the Group 2 state title as a junior in 2023. He pitched a 3-hit shutout and scored the game's lone run in the final against Rumson Fair-Haven. This past season he was named the Atlantic 10's Pitcher of the Year at Richmond and he is now in the transfer portal with two years of eligibility lef...

The Bergen County Baseball Tournament field will be selected and seeded on Thursday, so we go over some of the particulars on the latest episode of Talkin' Baseball powered by northjerseysports.com.

It's all about the bread, extra inning games played to conclusions and cut short, some good math, some bad math and a few bleeps. We have North Jersey high school baseball covered on the latest episode of Talkin' Baseball.

You can put away the "waiting" memes now as Talkin' Baseball is officially back on northjerseysports.com. We talk about the thriller in Emerson on Saturday that celebrated the life and legacy of Steve Ramagli and catch up on what has been a great first week of the 2026 high school baseball season. We have Joe Sutera back in the co-host's chair and some new technology that worked...

We wrap up the 2025-26 boys basketball season with a mythical T of C champion, touch on the All-Bergen County Selections and recap Felician University's historic season before diving into Spring sports. It's the season finale of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Northern Valley/Old Tappan was the No. 6 seed heading into the 16-team North 1, Group 3 state sectional tournament. The Golden Knights are now just one of 12 girls basketball teams in New Jersey with a game left on the schedule. NVOT beat North 2 champion Chatham in Elizabeth on Wednesday night to earn a spot in Sunday's Group 3 state final against Moorestown. We caught up with the Knights on...

Plainfield knocked off East Orange Campus to reach the Group 4 state final on Tuesday night and not long after that Cardinals' head coach Michael Gordon joined us to talk all about it on the latest episode of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com

There is something cool happening in Rutherford where Felician University (27-3) is making its mark on Division 2 basketball. The Falcons won the outright CACC regular season title for the first time in program history, set the program record for wins in a season and tied the record for the most ever by a CACC team. They have also won the Conference Tournament and are heading to the NCAA tourney f...

Ramsey is set to host Friday night's North 1, Group 2 final but before that the Rams' head coach Mark Christiansen joins us to talk about it. We also reset the rest of the state tournament with CACC champ Brad Forestieri in the co-host's chair. It's The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

The state tournament moves fast, especially when its schedule gets shuffled by the weather. We try to keep up with a wrap-up of the first round while Brad Forestieri is on the Felician bus to Chestnut Hill College for the CACC finale. It's The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Delayed by weather, the state tournament is about to get underway in earnest on Thursday afternoon. We make our high-stakes championship predictions as Brad Forestieri, our co-host, does his first show as a newlywed. We also talk Felician University head coach Ivan Lewis, whose program is in the midst of a historic year in the CACC and beyond. For once, it is not snowing on The Ballgame! powered b...

More snow, more hoops talk as we continue our state tournament preview. Ramapo's Nick Vier, Westwood's Rob Carcich and Lyndhurst's Perrin Mosca are all on the guest list between shifts of shoveling. Brad Forestieri is back in the co-host's chair as we go long on this episode of The Ballgame! powered by northjerseysports.com.

Originally scheduled to be a part of the main show, we quickly realized that this interview with Emerson head coach John Ziemba had to stand on its own. We preview the state tournament and really go deep on Bergen County hoops with one of the best coaches to ever do it. It's a 2-for-1 this week on The Ballgame! with CACC winning assistant coach Brad Forestieri.

We have a lot of ground to cover this week as we open our state tournament preview by talking to Hackensack head coach Aaron Taylor, whose team is the No. 2 seed in North 1, Group 4. We also wrap up the Jambo semifinals, touch on an all-public school final on the girls side and shoutout Chris Kasparian, who became Palisades Park's all-time leading boy basketball scorer. Oh, and that is just pa...

Either second-seeded Tenafly or No. 3 St. Mary is going to reach the Bergen County Jamboree final for the first time in program history. They will meet each other this weekend in the semifinals at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Sounds like the perfect time to talk to the head coaches, Tenafly's Jeff Koehler and St. Mary's Brian Gaccione. Our co-host, Brad Forestieri, also catches us up on...

With the Jambo quarterfinals on tap this weekend we talk to two head coaches that will be involved. Don Bosco Prep head coach Kevin Diverio, whose team is the No. 7 seed, and Dan Egorow, in charge of 12th-seeded Cresskill, are the guests. Brad Forestieri shows his commitment to the program by doing half the show from the sidelines of his work convention at The Tropicana in AC. It's another jam...

This edition of the Bergen County Jamboree has lived up to expectations. Teaneck's Mickell Taylor dropped 47 in an overtime win over River Dell, undefeated Tenafly edged past upstart Lyndhurst, No. 12-seeded and Group 1 Cresskill is still kicking and the quarterfinals are set. We talk all about it all that + pass along salutations to and from the Jambo committee's new media liaison.

With no disc golf to be played and no long walks to be taken because of the great blizzard of 2026, what else was there to do besides break down the Bergen County Jamboree bracket from top to bottom? Head coaches Jeff Koehler of Tenafly, Chris Gaskin of Ridgefield Park, Pat Gabriele of NV/Demarest and Waldwick's Greg McBain are all on the guest list. We also make predictions and have some laug...

Is Bosco in? If so, where should the Ironmen be seeded? How many NJIC teams make the cut and where do you put them? Is it the year of the publics? There is a lot to consider as the Bergen County Jamboree field is about to be selected, so we form a committee of our own and give our list of who should be in, where they should be slotted and whose bubble has burst. It's Brad from the victory bus...

We are late to the basketball party, but we finally booted up the recording devices to re-launch The Ballgame! Brad Forestieri is back in the co-host's chair as we catch up on the local hoops scene and then talk to first year Garfield head coach Deon Mingo. We are off and running with the first episode of 2026!

All but one of the state finals were played this past weekend and Brian Carr, to no one's surprise, was at all of them. We wrap up the games and the 2025 high school football season on the latest episode of The Football Show!

The season did not end the way he would have liked, but it was still another banner year for Northern Valley/Old Tappan and head coach Brian Dunn. We look back at the 2025 season that ended in the state final for the third time in four years and about all things high school football in New Jersey. We cover a lot of ground with one of the state's top coaches in less than an hour on The Football...

For the fourth straight week Old Tappan won a state playoff game with a running clock in the second half. We hear all about it from seniors Ekin Yucel and Devin Radoian and from head coach Brian Dunn. We break down the rest of the state semifinals and preview the penultimate weekend of the high school football season on the Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com.

We have interviews from Old Tappan's win in the North 1, Group 3 final and Westwood's in North 1, Group 2. We go deep on Ramapo's win over Highlands in a championship classic, see how our predictions played out, make more and look ahead to this weekend's state semifinals. It's a jam-packed episode of The Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com.

The matchups are all set for this weekend's state sectional finals and we are all over it. Brian Carr talks to Ramsey Favata and Davis about the Rams' spot in the North 1, Group 2 final and we go through all of the brackets on the latest episode of The Football Show! powered by northjerseysports.com