Tag: home-opener

‘Just feels like home’: What the Brooklyn Cyclones mean to their fans

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Apr. 7, 2025 By Miles Bolton David Pecoraro remembers the day the Brooklyn Cyclones changed their name. He had arrived for the Cyclones’ 2025 home opener against the Wilmington Blue Rocks on Friday 40 minutes before first pitch, sporting a jersey that swapped the club’s plain white sleeves for the sublimated stars and stripes…

Goals on hold: Brooklyn FC pro-soccer league postpones home opener amid turf concerns

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Aug. 29, 2024 By Jada Camille Pitch perfect? Not quite.  Brooklyn’s new pro-soccer league is postponing its first home match after finding “deficiencies” in the turf. While installing the turf at Maimonides Park, the league and the Brooklyn Football Club (Brooklyn FC) decided the space wasn’t up to their standard, rendering the field surface…