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East Meadow's Giancarlo Carvalho wins Martone Award

The 2012 Mattone Award for most outstanding lineman

Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | The 2012 Mattone Award for most outstanding lineman goes to Giancarlo Carvalho of East Meadow. (Jan. 13, 2013)

At East Meadow, the breakfast of champions is pancakes.

Along with the traditional football statistics, the Jets' coaches break down video to record the number of pancakes -- blocks on which a defender is flattened -- compiled by their linemen.

Giancarlo Carvalho, all 6-2, 280 pounds of him, stacked up more than 100 pancakes during his stellar four-year varsity career, and that appetite...

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