Going to bounce around a bit this morning and not mention that four-letter word that seems to be on the minds of everyone these days. I’ll leave that to meteorologist Dan Zarrow.

I don’t know that this was a particularly great year for movies based on the Oscar nominations but one worth seeing is “Spotlight” which is one of the eight movies up for Best Picture. The film is based on the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in Boston. It is brilliantly done and the cast led by Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo is outstanding. The movie was first released in November and was not a box office success. It seemed like it was out of the theaters very quickly.

It’s playing now at the AMC Loews in the Brick Plaza and well worth the effort to see it. Clearly it will be disturbing to many, especially Catholics and I’m sure some will avoid it for the reason they don’t want to believe something like that really happened. Of course we know it has in Boston and many other places and it’s an important movie because it tells a story of how hard it is to bring down a system that has so much power many will fight to protect it even though they know it’s wrong.

Each week our Shore Sports Network honors a boys’ basketball team as our US Army Team of the Week. I had the pleasure along with Staff Sgt. Adam Scott and Staff Sgt. William Lantier to help honor Toms River North before their home game against Jackson Memorial Tuesday night.

The Mariners are 11-1 with their only loss coming against Manasquan in the finals of the WOBM Christmas Classic. Coach Rory Caswell has an athletic and talented group led by seniors Patrick Marinaccio and Hunter Petrick and juniors Darrion Carrington, Mike Nyisztor and Jaden Rhoden.

Less than two months after announcing they would start a field hockey program Donovan Catholic High School has named Debbie Schwartz and Dawn Dziedzic as co-head coaches. Schwartz was a successful head coach at Toms River East for six seasons where Dziedzic spent nearly 20 years as an assistant.

Working together is nothing new for the pair as Schwartz is the head coach of the Griffin’s softball team with Dziedzic serving as her assistant. Donovan Catholic plans to play a varsity only field hockey schedule next fall and will compete as an independent in the Shore Conference.

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