Leading off today: Long Island football dynasty St. Anthony's made a strong season debut Saturday with a 39-0 victory over Buffalo St. Joe's in South Huntingon.

   James Brady was 5-for-10 for 168 yards in the air and also carried four times for another 71 yards as St. Anthony's tuned up for Friday's game against Iona Prep and made its bid to start the season at No. 1 in Class AA when the New York State Sportswriters Association rolls out its rankings Wednesday.

   In a few other games of note across New York:

• Staten Island Curtis, coming off a 12-1 season, walloped Bronx Christopher Columbus, 56-19. Four-year starting QB Dom LeGrande rushed six times for 111 yards and a TD.
• Gene Tundo won his 100th game at Orchard Park (he also has 412 in lacrosse and 120 in wrestling according to The Buffalo News) with son Jeff scoring four TDs in a 48-25 triumph against Lockport. OP fell behind early, 12-0.
• Scarsdale surprised Horace Greeley, 28-21, to avenge a 30-0 loss last year.
• Monroe-Woodbury thumped North Rockland, 31-10, with 399 yards of offense. Sophomore QB Dan Scalo ran 17 times for 203 yards.
• Syracuse Corcoran will travel to Union-Endicott at 1 p.m. today. They were unable to play as scheduled on Saturday because of lightning.

   Harrier happenings: Shelby Greany of Suffern kicked off her senior season with a win in 18:18.3 Saturday to defend her Washingtonville Invitational title Saturday. Greany was fourth in the state in Class AA last fall. Nicole Rosario of Pine Bush, 26th at states, was a distant second in 18:45.1.

   In the Saranac Lake Invitational, Lee Berube of Ticonderoga opened with a win in 17:47.4. He was a close second in Class D at states last year.

   At Vernon-Verona-Sherrill, Marcellus junior Chris Stogsdill opened with an impressive win in 16:49.2. He was eighth in Class B last fall.

   A higher standard? Mark McGuire of The Times Union in Albany did an interesting piece Saturday on the issue of whether athletes should be held to a higher standard than students who participate in other after-school activities.

   The correct answer, of course, is, "No." If an athlete is subject to a three-week suspension from

competition for an alcohol infraction, then members of the drama club or the chess team should also have their participation limited.

   McGuire found a great deal of inconsistency throughout Section 2. You can read the whole piece to get a feel for what's going on.

   Keeping up with the Joneses: Mount Vernon basketball star Kevin Jones reportedly will get an in-home visit from Bob Huggins of West Virginia on Monday.

   Mookie Jones of Peekskill is said to have added St. John's to his list of potential suitors alongside DePaul, Kansas, Rutgers, Marquette, Michigan and Syracuse. He's getting home visits from reps of DePaul, Rutgers and Syracuse this week.

   Both those notes are courtesy of Adam Zagoria of The Herald News in West Paterson, N.J. If you're a downstate hoops junkie, then bookmark his blog.

   Weekly survey question: Stop back at the site home page to vote for the team you think has the best chance to repeat as a NYSPHSAA football champion: Auburn, Corning East, Geneva, Dobbs Ferry or Tuckahoe.

   We'll ask the same questions about soccer and cross country champs in coming weeks.

   In response to last week's question, 75 percent of you said you'd rather keep the NYSPHSAA football finals in the Carrier Dome rather than rotate with a downstate location.

   Voters appear to have responded in large part based on convenience. Those identifying themselves as being from sections 3-4-5-6 want to keep it in Syracuse by a margin of 23-1. The combined margin in all other regions (and outside N.Y.) was only 13-11.

   Extra points: New York Daily News basketball writer Dick "Hoops" Weiss is so upset with the recent PSAL raids on CHSAA players in New York City that he's floating the idea of a Catholic boycott of games against certain public schools. The Federation tournament is already handicapped this year by a two-week wait after the NYSPHSAA finals because of the Easter holiday. Add a boycott on top of that, and it could be another nail in the coffin for that event.

   LongIslandBasketball.com says Long Island Lutheran will be loaded this winter and has scheduled a home game Feb. 14 against the boys from Jersey City (N.J.) St. Anthony's. . . . East Rochester/Gananda senior Nick Fischer is at 1,524 career receiving yards to break a nine-year-old Section 5 record. He's on pace to reach the state's all-time top 10.

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