Leading off: Union-Endicott AD Josh Gannon said the logistics of moving a football game from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon, plus a bleak weather forecast, led to the cancellation of last weekend's game against Syracuse Corcoran.

   Reading between the lines, it sounds like the adults -- or at least somebody with a set of keys -- didn't want to work on a Sunday, but that's admittedly just speculation.

   "Factors of logistics, of running a safe event for the kids the next day, as far as getting them into the building and all the logistical elements that come into play when you're hosting an event like that -- I was unable to turn it around in time to host the game on Sunday," Gannon told the Press & Sun-Bulletin. "And also . . . the threat of thunderstorms on Sunday just made it so it didn't work out, unfortunately. I wish we could have had the event."

   Gannon and U-E coach Shane Hurd said that even if Sunday's game had started as scheduled, there would have been more delays because of thunderstorms in the area. The game was initially scheduled for Saturday night, but was delayed and then postponed because of lightning.

   The game apparently cannot be made up. Corcoran is locked into a game Friday that is scheduled to be televised on Time Warner Cable, so playing on a weekday this week isn't possible.

   Quick kicks: A few items of note from the world of soccer:

• Arlington's boys had their 25-game soccer winning streak ended over the weekend by Suffern, 2-1. Amazingly, it was the first time 29th-year coach Gary Montalto has ever lost an opener.

• Stick around long enough and you'll eventually see it all. Alphabetize their roster, and you'll note that the defending state Class A champion Aquinas boys soccer players have uniform numbers that ascend in order, from Michael Backland (No. 1) to Karl Zydowicz (No. 25). I've never seen that in any sport.

• Vestal (5-1-1) scored its first girls soccer win against Union-Endicott since 1999 as Lindsay Dunlop scored the game's only goal in overtime on Monday. It was the first goal U-E (4-1) has allowed this season.

   Calling it a career: Patti Vaughan is going to retire from teaching at Morrisville-Eaton in June, but is undecided about staying on as field hockey coach.

   Vaughan has coached the Warriors since 1980, bringing a

371-81-37 career record and 11 Section 3 championships into the season. She has also coached basketball and track and field.

   Administrator Gone Wild Dept.: In Kentucky, Clark County School officials are apologizing to the local newspaper after banning a reporter from the homecoming football game.

   The Winchester Sun said Gordon Parido, the principal at George Roger High School, would not allow a reporter in the press box because he didn't like an article the newspaper ran that day. That story was about four white students at the school who allegedly gave a black student a racially charged note.

   The paper said Parido has since called to apologize for banning the reporter.

   An AD's job is never done: The Journal News look a look Tuesday at the summer life of some area athletic directors, taking note of some of the behind-the-scenes work that administrators handle beyond selecting coaches and scheduling games.

   There was nothing surprising in there, but there was one eye-opening note. Bob Buono, the long-time AD at Suffern, says he school is closing in on 100 teams at various levels and various sports.

   If you assume that it takes one hour at the end of the season to prepare an evaluation of every coach and another hour to go over it with the coach, that chews up five full weeks (40 hours per week) of his time right there. If scheduling a bus and later confirming the schedule for every away game takes just 10 minutes, that's about another 2 1/2 weeks.

   There are numerous other tasks that ADs must also tackle. Don't kid yourself by thinking it's a nine-months-a-year job in a large school district.

   Extra points: Bloggers Mark Maier and Dan Enright filed new entries on football and cross country, respectively, this evening. Take a look. . . . The first football rankings of the season will be available on the site late Wednesday afternoon. . . . Coaches and boosters are lobbying the school board in Clarence to replace grass fields with artificial turf, pushing for up to a $3 million bond referendum to fund an three-field, all-purpose complex, The Buffalo News reported. . . . USA Today's top-rated football teams, No. 1 Southlake (Texas) Carroll and No. 2 Miami Northwestern, face each other Saturday in Dallas on ESPNU at 7 p.m.

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