HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

The 2026 New Jersey high school baseball season is already delivering a compelling mix of dominance, disruption, and rising programs redefining expectations across the...

Bracket Week Arrives: New Jersey High School Winter Championships Shift Into Full Postseason Mode The most anticipated stretch of the New Jersey high school winter calendar has officially arrived, as the NJSIAA prepares to release the majority of its postseason tournament brackets and launches a statewide run of championship events that will shape the next three weeks of competition. Across gyms, rinks and wrestling rooms, programs are now transitioning from regular-season positioning to true postseason survival. Seeding meetings for both basketball and ice hockey will take place on Tuesday, February 17, immediately triggering the release of official state tournament brackets and confirming which teams will extend their seasons and which will see their campaigns come to an...

Yifeng Hu, associate professor of communication studies, spent a good part of last summer documenting the stories of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Arkansas. Now, she hopes that similar storytelling projects will soon capture the voices of Asian communities in New Jersey.   The project is part of the ASIANetwork-Mellon Foundation Award for AAPI Voices and Stories: Community-based Digital Storytelling, which provides funding to support oral history and community conservation projects to record the experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.   “It’s important to hear ordinary people’s voices and to preserve those voices,” says Hu, who worked with colleagues and students at the University of Central Arkansas in collecting the untold stories of Chinese American...