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The most rewarding high school football game of Larry Holmes Jr.’s career had just finished, a 41-14 victory over Parkland last Friday in the District 11 Class 4A semifinals. And within minutes, he was on his mother’s cell phone trying to reach his dad in Biloxi, Miss. “I got…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →They were veteran players for hire and they have not been costly. Rick Mahorn. Billy Owens. Harvey Grant. And now Vernon Maxwell. Maxwell, who was signed by the Philadelphia 76ers four days before the NBA season started, joins Mahorn, Owens, Grant — all players who were signed…
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Read on mcall.com →Tim Massaquoi made Michigan his college choice before the high school football season kicked off, ending speculation over which Big Ten program he’d choose and allowing him to concentrate on scoring touchdowns for Parkland this season. But in nonleague games against Emmaus and…
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Read on mcall.com →A little playing time is all Nazr Mohammed wants. He’s getting it, but he could get a lot more if he were on a team other than the Sixers. Don’t blame Philadelphia coach Larry Brown. He has tried to find a better home for the 6-10 Mohammed, a third-year pro from the University…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The look from coach Larry Brown came, then the hand wave for Juan ‘Pepe’ Sanchez to take off his warm-up suit and check into his first NBA regular-season game. It was a moment that probably led to cheers in Sanchez’s native Argentina. It was a moment the rookie guard from Temple…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Do you have a question concerning the Sixers? You probably want to know if they can make the playoffs three years in a row. If so, check out the 10 questions and answers below. Maybe you’ll have other questions. Maybe your answers are different. Anyway, read on and perhaps the…
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Read on mcall.com →A lot of unbelievable stuff happens in pickup basketball games, especially in big cities, where the wannabes play with NBA players, and the ensuing shootouts can be real crowd pleasers. Philadelphia 76ers veteran guard Aaron McKie invited the team’s No. 1 draft pick, Craig…
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Read on mcall.com →The next time they play on this court and rouse the fans in the First Union Center, wins and losses will count much more. Whether 1-0 or 0-1 following their season-opening game Halloween night in New York, when the Philadelphia 76ers play host to the Toronto Raptors Nov. 1 at…
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Read on mcall.com →Jeff Van Gundy works in Gotham City where hearts are cold and where expectations are seemingly higher than the Empire State Building. But as coach of the New York Knicks, Van Gundy has not lost his decency or his respect of the men who help make the NBA the greatest professional…
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Read on mcall.com →His movement in the pocket is swifter, his throws crisper, his ability to read defensive coverages even better, but the thing that has East Stroudsburg quarterback Jim Terwilliger gloating most is in the Cavaliers’ 4-2 record. Six weeks into last season East Stroudsburg was 0-6…
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Read on mcall.com →Jason Beck’s last carry from the 4-yard line late in the fourth quarter was just as punishing as what he had done on the other side of the ball. But what the Parkland two-way player had done on defense was more telling sack, sack, crunch, ouch. Beck was so devastating in the…
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Read on mcall.com →His Web site opens with “The Wonderful World of Nazr.” At times in the past, it most certainly was wonderful for 6-foot-10 center Nazr Mohammed. In 1997 he won a national championship at Kentucky, and his world was again brightened in the June 1998 NBA draft when he was selected…
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Read on mcall.com →His team was nursing an eight-point lead over rival Whitehall with just 2:51 remaining last Oct. 9. Parkland kicker Greg Knauss was summoned by coach Rich Sniscak to attempt a 47-yard field goal. Make it and victory in the Mountain Valley Conference football game that had…
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Read on mcall.com →Center Todd MacCulloch has lived the life of a presidential candidate over the last two days. He’s traveled and traveled, and now he’s hard at work. But Vice President Al Gore and Republican candidate George W. Bush have not had to travel around the world lately. MacCulloch did,…
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Read on mcall.com →Allen Iverson is mad and hurt that the Philadelphia 76ers management tried to trade him. He’s also hip and hop, and to understand more about that, check out his upcoming rap album, ‘Non-Fiction,’ an X-rated album that’s loaded with profanity and lyrics about gangster life. Asked…
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Read on mcall.com →Only a little running room had opened up near the sidelines, but that was all the space 5-foot-7, 135-pound Bethlehem Catholic tailback Frank Trovato needed to carry the Golden Hawks to a first down and a huge non-league victory. Trovato is a junior varsity player who was called…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The pitches kept coming. The holes kept opening — some wide, some narrow. Parkland’s Austin Scott kept going, bursting or spinning through holes, and then often outracing or hurdling over Northampton defenders. ‘He’s unbelievable,” Parkland wide receiver Tim Massaquoi said.…
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Read on mcall.com →Whitey Williams, the first-year Nazareth football coach, believed junior Mike Cangelosi had the talent to play quarterback just by looking at him. ‘He has that sparkle in his eye,” Williams said. A look that says ‘He is a competitor,” Williams said, ‘And he has great character.…
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Read on mcall.com →Have you heard the rumbling sound around Liberty High School? It’s the football team stampeding. Have you noticed the two wins and zero losses? That’s the result of playing up to potential. Do you believe Liberty is really that good? It will be time to find out when the…
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Read on mcall.com →Johnny Santiago has run the ball one way since he began playing competitive football for the Bethlehem Saints at age 6. ‘When I get the ball I look for the hole,” said Santiago, a senior tailback at Freedom. ‘I just want to run through (the defender ), right through his back.…
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Read on mcall.com →She stands in goal, gobbling up and turning away shots. She does it with such ease. Her goal is to disrupt the attacking team’s flow, and Central Catholic senior goalkeeper Naomi Campano does just that. Campano recorded 20 shutouts in her previous two seasons and continues to…
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Read on mcall.com →Palmerton High’s Jeff Dobias is the area’s best long distance runner, and he probably could have won the both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs in Wednesday’s District 11 Class 2A Track and Field Championships in Pottsville. Dobias, a senior, decided to run just the 3,200,…
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