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The big dog — at least the biggest one on the University of Pittsburgh’s basketball squad — wanted the ball a whole lot more last season. It just didn’t happen. But 7-foot Aaron Gray, the former Emmaus High standout center, won’t have to beg for the ball much next season. Gray…
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Read on mcall.com →The United States Basketball League enters its 20th season on shaky ground. It has shrunk from 11 teams to eight and went into the 11th hour to try to revive the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, the team it once considered its flagship operation. As of Monday afternoon, the defending…
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Read on mcall.com →Temple’s season of underachievement will likely end tonight in a first-round NIT game against Virginia Tech. But the major question after the game probably won’t center on what the Owls need to do to get better for next season. It probably will be on why Temple coach John Chaney…
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Read on mcall.com →Tom Brennan clipped the nets Saturday one final time at Patrick Gymnasium in Burlington, Vermont. Now he’s going dancing one final time in the NCAA Tournament. Brennan, a Phillipsburg native, will not coach past this season, his 23rd overall and 19th at Vermont, an America East…
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Read on mcall.com →PIAA playoff rookie George Washington can’t wait to play Easton in the Class 4A Eastern semifinals at 7 tonight at Northeast High’s Charles Martin Stadium in Philadelphia. But the Eagles (12-0) aren’t talking smack because they’re just happy to be in the chase for what would be…
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Read on mcall.com →If he were ever hired as an NBA assistant or head coach, Darryl Dawkins would probably wear a different suit for every home game. Many of them would be colorful. “He has 90 suits,” his wife Janice said. “The best way to describe his closet is Skittles, like a big bag of…
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Read on mcall.com →The childhood hardships of Saint Joseph’s guard Delonte West were so bad that he didn’t even own a basketball. That didn’t stop him from often having one in his hand, either dribbling or shooting. How he got the balls is a story West told Thursday night without shame, about six…
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Read on mcall.com →What could have been for Saint Joseph’s basketball next season is now what will not be. Guard Delonte West has decided to skip his senior season and remain in next Thursday’s NBA draft. His decision means that the Hawks, who went 27-0 in the regular season and 30-2 overall, will…
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Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s junior guard Delonte West is waiting for an invitation that will require no special dress code, nor the need to buy a present. Instead, he’ll just have to bring his game, stronger than ever, if he’s invited to the NBA pre-draft camp in Chicago June 8-11. Amid…
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Read on mcall.com →The great Wilt Chamberlain and the famous Harlem Globetrotters once dazzled crowds at Liberty High’s Memorial Gymnasium. Former Philadelphia 76ers center Darryl Dawkins hopes to do the same today, but he’ll have to rely on his Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs players. The ‘Dawgs will…
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Read on mcall.com →Heaven received a prayer from the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs Tuesday night that may forever go unanswered. The prayer is that Saint Joseph’s guard Jameer Nelson goes from his postseason sweep of all the major national player of the year awards to wearing a ValleyDawgs uniform in…
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Read on mcall.com →You can not stop a team that plays defense as well as it does offense. And you can not tell Saint Joseph’s that it doesn’t deserve to be the No. 3-ranked team in the country. Perfection says so. The Hawks’ bid for a 27-0 regular season remained alive with an 81-67 Atlantic 10…
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Read on mcall.com →There are arenas that are great because of their style, seating capacity, or crowd noise. Lafayette College’s Kirby Sports Center is not exactly a state-of-the-art facility. It lacks the pizzazz of other venues because of its lack of theater-type seating and has a seating…
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Read on mcall.com →The University of Connecticut is no longer No. 1 in all major polls today, but the Huskies will still be the best team Lehigh will play this season. And one of the toughest ever. Lehigh did play Georgetown and Patrick Ewing in the 1985 NCAA Tournament, losing, 68-43, and the…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University senior Matt Logie might get his chance to play in the same game with, and maybe even pop a jumper in high school phenom LeBron James’ face before Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady or any of the other NBA stars do. That’s providing James, the projected first pick of…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins’ nickname growing up was “Goofy.” This, despite the fact that Dawkins towered over most of the people calling him names and trying to embarrass him on the outdoor basketball courts in Orlando, Fla.He lacked coordination, charisma, and toughness. His mother used to…
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Read on mcall.com →Jameer Nelson, the magnificent Saint Joseph’s point guard, wants the ball in his hands and T.J. Ford of Texas in his face. He wants to prove in the NCAA Tournament that he can easily dribble through traps, as he has done all season, set up teammates with unbelievable passes, and…
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Read on mcall.com →Saint Joseph’s has a blazing backcourt, led by All-American candidate Jameer Nelson and shooters galore. The Hawks also have a coach, Phil Martelli, who does as much cheering as anyone with pompons. Their 22-5 season includes a 4-0 record against Philadelphia rivals, giving them…
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Read on mcall.com →Austin Scott turned into Kid Scott on Tuesday afternoon at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel grand ballroom. He just couldn’t believe that he was in the same room with athletes and coaches he has seen so often on television. Nor could Scott believe that later Tuesday the Maxwell…
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Read on mcall.com →About the only thing that kept Justin DeBerry from practicing in those scorching Tucson, Ariz., summers was a dust storm. Outside of that, the Lafayette College guard shot jumpers in his backyard for hours, unconcerned about heat stroke despite 100-degree temperatures. “You get…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Read on mcall.com →Some players have shown up at the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs tryout camps the last two weeks with a support team which has included girlfriends, wives and family members. Juwan Justice, a 6-4 guard from East Stroudsburg University, has traveled to Lehigh Carbon Community College…
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