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    • St. Anthony

    By SEAN BOCK

    Longtime St. Anthony (N.J.) High School coach Bob Hurley won the 2017 Best Coach Award at this year’s ESPYs on Wednesday night.

    “It’s really a great honor to be here tonight,” Hurley, who turn 70 July 31st, said in his acceptance speech. “Getting this award alongside all these iconic coaches, but even more specifically it’s a great honor to be representing all these great coaches.”

    During his 44-year coaching career at St. Anthony’s, Hurley went 1,162-119 and captured 28 State Parochial titles and four national championships. In 2010, he was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, becoming the second high school coach to be inducted.

    Breaking News, St. Anthony

    By DENNIS CHAMBERS & ADAM ZAGORIA

    The seemingly inevitable has became reality for St. Anthony’s.

    The historic Jersey City school announced that it will suspend operations following the 2016-17 school year because it’s unable to raise the necessary funds to keep its doors open. As a result, Hall of Fame coach — and the school’s principal — Bob Hurley Sr. appears to have coached his last high school game.

    Unable to raise the endowment funds St. Anthony was seeking at the beginning of the school year, the Archdiocese of Newark made the decision to close the historic high school.

    “At the end of this school year, we will be closing,” Hurley said. “Is it extremely sad? Yeah, it’s brutal. Absolutely brutal.”

    Hurleys, St. Anthony

    After all the epic battles that St. Anthony’s and St. Patrick’s staged over the years across the New Jersey basketball scene, it would be more than ironic if St. Anthony’s now followed St. Patrick’s lead and transitioned from a Catholic school to a private one.

    Yet if you listen to Bob Hurley as he attempts to save St. Anthony’s from its latest — and perhaps greatest — financial crisis, it sounds like that is a path he and the school are considering.

    “We’re going to come up with a plan,” Hurley said during a recent interview with WFUV. “Will it be the plan to sustain it through whoever replaces me in the future? I don’t know about that. But I think we could probably reinvent ourselves somewhat like The Patrick School did and still be able to give an affordable education to a kid in the inner-city that stimulates them to be perhaps better than their counterparts.”

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