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Nobody is likely to ask the significance of playing in a Big 5 game if they saw the way La Salle and Penn were scrapping and clawing Tuesday night at The Palestra. But La Salle, which started three freshmen and two sophomores, just couldn’t match the poise, execution, and like…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s guard Jameer Nelson was slick with his handle, quick with his penetration. Trying to trap him seemed pointless. Fouling him did not work either because Nelson was smooth at the free throw line, too. Nelson was in command, and his poise was a big reason the Hawks…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette College gets a break from its Patriot League schedule tonight, but the Leopards’ 7:30 home game against the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania is a step up in competition. It could be considered a level higher than the Leopards’ games against Arizona State on Nov.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s guards Jameer Nelson and Delonte West were like a nightmare to the Temple Owls Tuesday night at the Liacouras Center. Nelson and West were so hot shooting 3s and dribbling through Temple’s trapping defensive pressure that they helped turn a close Big 5/Atlantic 10…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Coaching on the big-time level has brought big-time thrills to former Lafayette College assistant coach Pat Brogan, who is in his first season as an assistant coach at Penn State. But Brogan has not forgotten the eight seasons he spent coaching at Lafayette, a period that ended…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The return to the area where he used to live went better than expected for Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan Thursday night at Temple’s Liacouras Center. That’s because Ryan’s Badgers shot the ball so well from the outside that they seemingly took away whatever joy the Owls players might…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a classic no-blood, no-foul basketball game, the kind that forces tempers to flare and a capacity home crowd to fume at every no-call. Such was the case Tuesday afternoon. But Big Five matchups are typically grueling. Throw in the fact that it was Temple against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →North Penn kind of backed into the District One playoffs as the eighth seed. And the Knights refused to be kicked out once they got there. They won three straight, including last week’s 25-14 win over Interboro in the district championship game, to secure a matchup against…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The mind games started as early as 4 a.m. when Dieruff wide receiver Joel Rupp’s father had him running 40-yard sprints. “I tell him you have got to be ready to run whenever the coaches ask you,” said Rupp Sr. The mind games also extended from 20 feet away when Rupp’s father…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The post-Bethlehem Catholic High football careers of Eddie Scipio and Pat Bedics have become more challenging and enjoyable since they arrived here on July 1. They’re in town to practice with the Pennsylvania All-Stars in preparation for the Big 33 Football Classic at 7 p.m.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →All that matters now to La Salle University forward Rasual Butler is to hear his name called in Wednesday’s NBA Draft. Then the post-college life that he has been thinking about since his last NCAA game, a 28-point outburst against Richmond in the semifinals of the Atlantic 10…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The five tattoos on the body of Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs guard Quincy Wadley are not there just for looks. Neither are the rubber bands he wears around both wrists. “Everything has a meaning,” Wadley said. “I don’t just put anything on. The one last tattoo that I will get, that…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Evander Holyfield used nothing but his fists, padded with boxing gloves. But it seemed like the former four-time heavyweight champion was using a baseball bat against another former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman, Saturday night before a crowd of 9,831 at the Boardwalk Hall.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The United States Basketball League’s decision to hold games on Mother’s Day didn’t help the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs at the Stabler Arena ticket window on Sunday. But, despite playing in front of only 712 fans, the ‘Dawgs (4-4) mustered up enough “Maxey” and execution in clutch…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The sluggishness is still there, otherwise a couple of Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs players would not have botched dunks on two-on-none breaks. “It was just missed concentration, trying to dunk it hard, that’s all,” said ‘Dawgs swingman Cory Hightower. Though comical, neither the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Off to the side, Mark Lesko stood. Other players were loafing around, some were showboat dunking, throwing the ball off the back wall inside the Lehigh Carbon Community College gymnasium, catching it and then jamming. Others were swishing jumpers from way out. But some of those…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →You have to know that the United States Basketball League is all about giving unsuspecting players a chance to play professionally when a former towel boy is drafted by the defending league champion. Good thing it was in the seventh round, 61st pick overall that the Pennsylvania…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The telephone at the Pennsylvania VallyDawgs headquarters in Easton rang more often than usual Tuesday, but not all the calls were from people wondering if head coach Darryl Dawkins was really serious about wanting to coach at Lehigh University. Inquiring minds, mostly those of…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Amazingly, just two La Salle Explorers fans stormed onto the First Union Spectrum floor Thursday night. They were quickly rushed off by security guards, but their heartbeats may still be running along with that of the La Salle players following a 72-66 upset over Temple in the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The verbal outbursts from the Scream I and II movies will compare little to the noise level inside the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestra at 8 tonight in the most important game of the Ivy League season. “It’s going to be very, very, very packed,” said Carla Shultzberg,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The guessing game of who’s in, who’s out, and who needs to do what to get into the good graces of the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has heated up as college basketball enters its final two weeks of the regular season. Locally, Lafayette (13-12) and Lehigh (4-21) can only…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Many of the students who rushed onto the floor at La Salle University’s Gola Gymnasium probably didn’t notice Reggie Okosa pounding his fists into his chest as he danced around the court. Okosa wears No. 1 on his jersey. Seconds earlier, Okosa’s teammate, senior forward Rasual…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Most of the Penn Quakers’ jumpers looked good, often swishing through the nets. The Quakers’ man-to-man defense was also tough, somewhat nasty at times. Penn’s NCAA Tournament life seemed to be on the line, and the Quakers played like a team on a serious mission in routing Ivy…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was just the second day of February but it seemed like March. It’s the Temple Owls time of season. Time when they seem to smother opponents with that pesky zone defense. It doesn’t matter who the opponent is or where they play the game. They seem to play every game with the…
· Andre D. Williams
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