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Some people may have thought the Emmaus Green Hornets were buried emotionally with that 1-6 record to start the season. Obviously, somebody forgot that 6-11 junior center Aaron Gray was out with a broken left ankle during that horrible beginning. But Gray was ever present on the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Howard University coach Frankie Allen stood in stunned silence after a 3-pointer was made by Lafayette College senior guard Brian Burke late in the second half. Allen did a lot of the same throughout the Leopards’ 93-84 non-league victory Sunday afternoon before a crowd of 2,021…
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Read on mcall.com →It’s the game of the week in the Mountain Valley Conference, Nazareth at Easton in a crossover matchup at Cottingham Stadium, a game featuring two teams that play defense exceptionally well and rely on their rushing attacks to lead their offenses. Nazareth has pummeled its first…
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Read on mcall.com →The atmosphere at Madison Square Garden can be overwhelming for any first-time visitor. You might expect it to be especially so for a 10-year-old from Allentown who has never competed outside Pennsylvania. But to Brianna Broyles, an eighth grader at St. Francis of Assisi School…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen Holloway doesn’t look that tough on the football field. He’s just 5-10, 150 pounds. But Easton’s senior free safety had opposing offensive players wondering last season, “Did you catch that number?” Holloway was everywhere, making plays, sticking hard. “He has some real…
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Read on mcall.com →Unsettled business remains for the Philadelphia 76ers, with the futures of coach Larry Brown and team president Pat Croce topping the list. But the 79ers settled one major issue Wednesday, sealing guard Aaron McKie’s seven-year, $42-million contract, and figure to settle another…
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Read on mcall.com →The gymnasium at the Philadelphia 76ers’ draft headquarters at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic College had nearly emptied Wednesday night/Thursday morning when the phone rang around 12:20 a.m., drawing immediate attention. Everyone knew it was Maurice Cheeks calling. It…
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Read on mcall.com →The Philadelphia 76ers’ season started with a 29-point drubbing of the New York Knicks on Halloween night at Madison Square Garden. It ended with a disappointing 108-96 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers Friday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, concluding a season of sterling…
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Read on mcall.com →A big cloud of uncertainty hovers over the Philadelphia 76ers organization. And it has nothing to do with whom they will choose in the NBA draft, June 27. The most pressing matters are whether coach Larry Brown will return for a fifth season and whether team president Pat Croce…
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Read on mcall.com →The lights were dim, the court had been taken up and all the floor seats removed inside the First Union Center Saturday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the Philadelphia 76ers’ dreams of winning the NBA title were shattered by the Los Angeles Lakers. Light music played in the…
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Read on mcall.com →The heart, the hustle, and the fight were there for the Philadelphia 76ers until the end. But their prayer was left unanswered because every move they made was countered, every rally was cut short. The best from the West, those cocky and confident Los Angeles Lakers, weathered…
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Read on mcall.com →The NBA Finals have been a stage for Allen Iverson and Shaquille O’Neal to share, one in a display of flash, courage and creativity, the other in a display of power, destruction and — as O’Neal has proudly noted — occasional finesse. For the most part, the regular season was the…
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Read on mcall.com →The Fat Lady has started to get dressed and may sing tonight, a goodbye tune that the Philadelphia 76ers do not want to hear. The Sixers still have some fight left, still want to get a victory at home, and then take their injured and ragged bodies back to Los Angeles to try and…
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Read on mcall.com →The storm will soon turn to calm, words spoken amid a torrent of flying elbows will be forgotten, and Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown and Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson will be remembered for the strategic moves they made to either win or lose in the NBA Finals.…
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Read on mcall.com →As Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant continued to destroy them with uncontainable power and finesse, and as open 3-pointers fell through, all the Philadelphia 76ers could hope for was a break, some sort of slip up by the Los Angeles Lakers. But the Sixers needed to find the rim…
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Read on mcall.com →As Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant continued to shake them up with an uncontrollable power and finesse game, and as open 3-pointers fell through, all the Philadelphia 76ers could seemingly hope for was a break, any slip up by the Los Angeles Lakers. But the Sixers needed to…
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Read on mcall.com →The NBA Finals have been everything Philadelphia 76ers power forward Tyrone Hill figured they would be, with the exception of Hill himself, who has not been a pretty sight. Like everyone else, he has begun to wonder where he’s been in the first three games of the series. He…
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Read on mcall.com →George Lynch is just as gritty as his Philadelphia 76ers teammates Eric Snow, Allen Iverson and Aaron McKie, all of whom could legitimately receive a doctor’s note to take the rest of the month off from work. Lynch, who fractured his left foot in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference…
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Read on mcall.com →A fan was brutally wobbled, bloodied and floored as the buzzer sounded. Away from the melee in the stands, the Philadelphia 76ers probably felt like they had been knocked out, but not by Shaquille O’Neal or Kobe Bryant, the two Los Angeles Lakers players known for delivering…
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Read on mcall.com →Kool and the Gang probably should have been on hand to sing “It’s a celebration” Sunday outside the First Union Center. The City of Brotherly Love had not rocked like this, some said, in 18 years. That was the last time the Philadelphia 76ers played in the NBA Finals against the…
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Read on mcall.com →Don’t feel sad about the Philadelphia 76ers losing Game 2 of the NBA Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers. You want to know what sadness is? It’s getting a phone call on your cell phone minutes before the start of a Game 2, and hearing that your kid sister had died in a fire.…
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Read on mcall.com →The first blow was delivered by Philadelphia, the next one by Los Angeles. Now, it’s an NBA Finals best-of-seven series that’s deadlocked 1-1 after two games. Sweep talk is gone, and so is the Lakers’ invincible air that was generated during a 19-game winning streak, including…
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Read on mcall.com →Apparently, there has been a wrongfully perceived notion that the Philadelphia 76ers would play the role of underdog well and get rolled over by the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. Apparently, that just won’t happen, not even in the dreams of Lakers fans, mostly those…
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Read on mcall.com →Aaron McKie is not about the rest now. The Philadelphia 76ers’ starting point guard limped around Thursday with a protective boot that team trainer Lenny Currier fitted him with to help ease the discomfort of the chip fracture McKie suffered in his left ankle in Game 1 of the…
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