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Breathe easy, Lafayette. Fran O’Hanlon won’t be cleaning out his office anytime soon — not even for the temptation to return to Philadelphia. O’Hanlon said Monday that he’s happy as Lafayette’s men’s basketball coach and not a candidate for the vacant job at the University of…
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Read on mcall.com →The greatest athletic accomplishment of his life was over, and Parkland’s Tyrone Faverey and his mother, Karen, were driving back to the Lehigh Valley from Shippensburg. There was no music blasting, no horns honking. “I fell asleep,” said Faverey, who won the PIAA Class 3A high…
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Read on mcall.com →Ray Barbosa can’t take losing at James Madison University anymore. He’s done that for three basketball seasons, but there won’t be a fourth. The former Allen High standout received his official release papers on Friday from the Colonial Athletic Association member school. He…
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Read on mcall.com →The deans of area track and field coaches are back. Freedom’s Ray Herman returns for his 41st season and Southern Lehigh’s Brian Souerwine is back for his 34th. While not a lot has changed since last spring, a whole lot has changed in general over the years. “It’s amazing,” said…
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Read on mcall.com →For Jason Donnelly, the gut-wrenching final seconds of Villanova’s NCAA Tournament game against Arizona last Sunday night were nothing compared to the final days of his mother’s life. But the mentally tough way he reacted to both was the same. That’s because Donnelly,…
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Read on mcall.com →Marc Holum has been able to forget about pain this week. Both the emotional and physical types. The former Saucon Valley High star is a backup senior center for Air Force, which plays Illinois in its fourth-ever NCAA Tournament game tonight in San Diego. “This was one of the…
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Read on mcall.com →John Chaney is not going on a farewell tour, maybe not even closing out his illustrious coaching career on a winning note, but he’ll never have to worry about how much he was loved and respected for what he accomplished in 24 seasons at Temple. Chaney was greeted with a standing…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh was missing open shots. The Mountain Hawks were making bad passes. And what could have been the most costly bad pass came with eight seconds left, when star guard Jose Olivero tried to dump the ball inside. “I just made a wrong read,” said Olivero, a junior who two days…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh senior Joe Knight has always taken pride in being a rock to his family, friends and teammates, and especially to his 4-year-old niece, Cassidy. He has always tried his best to not let anybody down, even if that meant putting his own trials aside to make sure others were…
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Read on mcall.com →There’s little doubt that Lehigh and Bucknell have a heated rivalry, especially since six of the last eight meetings have been decided by five points or less. You’d expect the fans, those who are loyal, to be more jacked up than normal when the two Patriot League teams meet. The…
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Read on mcall.com →Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins, a former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, and former Philadelphia 76ers center Darryl Dawkins both went straight from high school to their respective professional leagues. Neither got to experience college, something both men said Thursday…
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Read on mcall.com →Villanova coach Jay Wright has been given everything by the university that, years ago, wasn’t interested in offering him a scholarship to play basketball. “I grew up in Philly,” Wright said. “I grew up a Big 5 fan. Of all the Big 5 teams, Villanova is my favorite team. I wanted…
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Read on mcall.com →Fittingly, Lehigh guard Jose Olivero’s father was in the stands at Alumni Hall at the United States Naval Academy Wednesday night when Olivero dived out of bounds for a loose ball and crashed into a scorer’s table. Appearing unfazed, Olivero rose quickly and went back to…
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Read on mcall.com →The only way to earn respect is to ante up and get on with it, which is what Lafayette women’s basketball coach Tammy Smith finally decided to do entering her 27th year of coaching. She stopped worrying about matters out of her control, like Lafayette not offering any…
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Read on mcall.com →Rich Jarnagin entered Liberty High School four years ago as a skinny freshman, but one with a lot of potential. He became stronger and faster and this year made several game-breaking plays on both sides of the ball to help Liberty go 13-2 and finish as the PIAA Class 4A…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh men will get another shot at Bucknell Feb. 22 in Lewisburg, and that could be for a first-place tie in the Patriot League. Bucknell finished the first-half of league play 7-0 — with Lehigh at 6-1 and wishing that shots had fallen a different way when the Bison visited…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh junior Adrienne Blount did what her coach asked her to do in the second half against Holy Cross on Saturday night at Stabler Arena, but it wasn’t enough to save the Mountain Hawks. She scored 16 of her career-high 20 points and collected all six of her rebounds after…
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Read on mcall.com →Liberty High defensive stars Andres Morales and Andrew Lee will have a second chance for a last impression of before closing the book on their high school careers. Morales and Lee were selected on Sunday to the Pennsylvania squad for the 49th annual Big 33 Football Classic in…
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Read on mcall.com →The Lehigh women’s basketball team experienced a season-low Saturday in Easton, losing to Lafayette, which entered 0-3 in the Patriot League. Rivalry games bring out the best in both teams, but the theory of throwing out records should not apply when the Lehigh and Lafayette…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron Gray tried to bring down the basket early in the game Wednesday night. He got the ball just outside the lane, made a swift move, then rose way over Rutgers center Byron Joynes to dunk. But Joynes fouled Gray, preventing the emphatic finish. But Gray stayed aggressive,…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh athletic director Joe Sterrett has placed the blame on his administration for the misinterpretation of an NCAA rule regarding academic requirements that led to senior Joe Knight being ruled ineligible for 16 games. But sorry does not cut it for a school that prides itself…
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Read on mcall.com →Syracuse center Sara Antolick recalled an awesome highlight from a high school matchup with Villanova forward Jackie Adamshick. It was in Antolick’s sophomore year at Bethlehem Catholic. Adamshick was a senior at Central Catholic, the school Antolick transferred to for her…
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Read on mcall.com →Muhlenberg coach Dave Madeira knows a Division I player when he sees one, and his eyes lit up when he first saw Lehigh junior guard Jose Olivero catch the ball, turn and bury a 3-pointer with such ease on Wednesday night. Not just once, not just twice but five times in Lehigh’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Tim Massaquoi has had touchdown receptions at Michigan Stadium, played in two Rose Bowls and has been named the Big Ten’s best tight end. But the former Parkland High star’s proudest moment over the last five years did not come on a football field. Two weeks ago, with his mother…
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