CCS bully battle engages ‘Sweethearts’ Duo delivers message they’ve shared with 2 million nationwide Cooperstown High Alum Tom Murphy, left, and Iraq War vet Rick Yarosh, right, flank CCS Junior / Senior High Assistant Principal Amy Malcuria after a March 7 interactive anti-bullying assembly. The lights went out in Cooperstown High School’s Sterling Auditorium on the afternoon of March 7, not long after sophomores, juniors, and seniors had filed in for an afternoon assembly. The video screen went live…
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CCS ’93 Grad Celebrated For Teaching Kids To Fight Back HERE’S AN EXCERPT FROM SEVEN DAYS PIECE “I hate fighting,” Tom Murphy announces to several hundred students at Williston Middle School, using what’s become his signature line about differentiating between contact sports such as MMA and hate-fueled violence. “There’s nothing that I find more despicable on the planet.” And with that hook, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound powerhouse owns the kids for the next 90 minutes. In a video recording of that…