Hoops for Hope is a winner

The Hoops for Hope basketball game took place on Jan. 27 between the Hewlett High School Bulldogs and Carey High boys’ teams in Hewlett.

What is being called the 18th annual contest highlights SIBSPlace, a nonprofit organization, which offers special programs and services to children who have a sibling or parent enduring cancer or another devastating illness.

Hewlett Harbor resident Mike

Schamroth founded the program. Once based in Hewlett, SIBSPlace is now headquartered in Rockville Centre. It is a free program run in conjunction with South Nassau Mount Sinai Hospital in Oceanside.

Every year, Hewlett head coach Bill Dubin sets $15,000 as the goal. As of press time $13,000 was raised. The Bulldogs defeated the Seahawks 62-44.

— Jeffrey Bessen

I perform a task and there’s nothing to it; asked “what’s up,” I admit “nothing’s doing.” I try to be moral, but as my Aunt Zooey constantly reminds me, I’m good for nothing, and though I’m filled with anxiety, I’m told there’s nothing to worry about.

I must see the doctor though nothing hurts, and check the news though nothing has happened. I’m actually exhausted from doing nothing, and confident that with every project, since nothing matters, nothing will come of it.

R on G oldman

Not for nothing, nothing is good enough for some, and nothing is too good for others.

For me, nothing says it like flowers, except sweet nothings whispered in your ear of possibly a hot dog with nothing on it.

For pure sarcasm, nothing comes close to my Aunt Zooey who, upon seeing me and my Cousin Mo approach, loves to comment, “here comes nothing with nothing.” Still, once I get past Zooey, nothing fazes me and nothing stands in my way.

Indeed, I do have plenty of nothing because nothing ventured means nothing gained, and thus I forever experience much ado about nothing.

Still unclear whether nothing is sacred, I’m certain it’s enduring because everyone agrees that nothing lasts forever, and eventually we all

In response to everything, however, I choose to quote Sgt. Shultz of “Hogan’s Heroes” and answer “I know nothing, confident that, as per my son Hillel who is so full of so much that nothing is too difficult for him to bear, “the person who knows nothing, knows something.”

I can only hope that the same can be said for those who write nothing and those who read it.

©2023 Ron Goldman