It takes $2 and a pizza to get Bob Hurley Sr. into a HS hoops game these days Bob Hurley Sr. hasn’t attended many high school basketball games since St. Anthony closed. So we took him to one. “Two seniors, please.” The man behind the ticket table at the Seton Hall Prep gymnasium has spent […]
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Cento Amici Member Bob Hurley in the New York Times
The School Closed. The Players Left. But the Coach Can’t Quit. It was 3:50 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon when the gray-haired coach parked his silver Toyota Camry and strode purposefully toward the gym. Bob Hurley, 70, wasn’t heading into his gym and he wasn’t getting set to coach his players — he no longer […]
Cento Amici Member Bob Hurley Wins ESPY for Best Coach
Bob Hurley, former St. Anthony basketball coach, honored at ESPY Awards He isn’t coaching hoops anymore, but the accolades keep on coming for Bob Hurley. The former head of the storied boys basketball program at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, which closed earlier this year, won the Best Coach Award at the ESPYs […]
St. Anthony High School’s Bob Hurley Feature In The Ringer
St. Anthony’s Unanswered Prayer Over 45 years, Bob Hurley turned his Jersey City basketball program into an unlikely national power. Now, after 28 state titles and decades of staving off closure, St. Anthony is shutting its doors, and the Friars family is trying to cope with running out of miracles. A few minutes before 7 […]