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It’s time for Lehigh University to consider making a change in philosophy and make history by hiring its first African-American head men’s basketball coach and just the second ever in the Patriot League. Maybe Lehigh search committee chairman Glenn Hofmann should first look at…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins was treated like royalty during his visit, along with his Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs bosses, to the Philippines three years ago. He loved the food and the environment. He made jokes and signed tons of autographs. Dawkins even worked a few basketball clinics. Now,…
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Read on mcall.com →You can not listen to former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes’ talk, especially when he says, “I’m retired” because he always unretires. Even though he’s 52. Even though his legacy was established two decades ago. The bottom line is that Holmes does not like being stuck on 74…
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Read on mcall.com →The closest highway is a short walk from College Hill in Easton, and Lafayette College coach Fran O’Hanlon doesn’t mind telling any player disgruntled with his role in to take that highway — Route 22 — and not worry about coming back. Simply put, it’s O’Hanlon’s way or the…
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Read on mcall.com →This was for Ivy League bragging rights and the chance to make history. Shooting-wise, it was not a classic. Too many clanks off the rim early on to call the regular-season finale between Penn and Princeton that Tuesday night before an emotionally intoxicated crowd of 8,700-plus…
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Read on mcall.com →This was for Ivy League rank and the chance to make history, a classic in the making. Shooting-wise, though, it was not a classic. There were too many clanks off the rim early on to call the regular-season finale between Penn and Princeton a classic. But that didn’t stop the…
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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,…
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Read on mcall.com →Something besides money made legendary boxing promoter Don King light up like the glamorous lights of Las Vegas Thursday when he visited the Canal Street Pub and Restaurant. And everybody knows that casinos are big in the city that never sleeps. Reading does not have any casinos…
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Read on mcall.com →For one play in the first half, the Lehigh Engineers looked more like the Harlem Globetrotters than the last place team in the Patriot League Sunday afternoon at Stabler Arena. That’s because it was capped off by a deft passing sequence of Alex Jensen to Scott Taylor to Alan…
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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…
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Read on mcall.com →“Bark, bark, bark.” That’s all undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins says he hears from Roy Jones Jr., mostly from far away. When will Hopkins get a chance to pound Jones, as he did Carl Daniels in successfully defending the middleweight title a record 15th…
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Read on mcall.com →Undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins talked a good fight and even tried to talk Carl Daniels out of fighting him three days before the two met for Hopkins’ WBC, WBA and IBF belts Saturday night at the Sovereign Center. But Daniels showed up and took the champion’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Wouldn’t it be nice if a boxing match could again be promoted as a “Rumble in the Jungle,” and then live up to its billing? How about a pay-per-view refund if the bout lasted fewer than five rounds or were 12 rounds of drawn-out junk? Is this too much to ask? Yes, when it comes…
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Read on mcall.com →Marshmallows will be the post-fight snack for the loser of the bout between undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Carl Daniels Saturday night at the Sovereign Center. Both have vowed to make the other eat them. But it was not Daniels (46-3-1, 30 KO’s), the…
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Read on mcall.com →The noise level is more boisterous and the atmosphere more lively at the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestra than at any other college gymnasium in Philadelphia, especially in matchups between Big 5 teams. “This is a great place to play when it is filled,” Penn junior Ugonna…
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Read on mcall.com →No ear biting, no crying, no hugging. Basically, nothing that you might have seen in the past in a Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis heavyweight mess-up. No, club-style professional boxers can’t afford to play mind games — just throw on the gloves, maybe draw some blood. It helps when…
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Read on mcall.com →On the way to his press conference in this city, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins ran into a major delay because of a flat tire on his burgundy-with-gold-trimmings limousine. The Philadelphia native, once considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, has had his share…
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Read on mcall.com →“Yo, get over here,” yelled the well-dressed man with the salt-and-pepper hair on a snowy Saturday afternoon. Lehigh was down five at home and looking very much like a team that was about to drift even further away from Holy Cross in a Patriot League matchup. Then, Lehigh coach…
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Read on mcall.com →Now the man with the baby face looks back at those snowy days in Whitehall when his dreams ran wild along with his older brother, NFL star Eddie McCaffrey of the Denver Broncos. But unlike “Easy Ed,” the now 29-year-old Billy McCaffrey, often thought about playing pro basketball…
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Read on mcall.com →At times, the Patriot League opener between Lafayette and Bucknell seemed to be a battle of who could play the ugliest Wednesday night at Davis Gymnasium. There were hard falls, sloppy handling of the ball, and so many stretches where neither team seemed to know what to do with…
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Read on mcall.com →Now that the Patriot League games are set to begin, the Lehigh and Lafayette men’s teams believe they will triumph more often than fail the rest of January and February. And March, if one is still alive following the league tournament. Never mind the previous 13 games for Lehigh…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins walked into Larry Holmes’ business office on Wednesday to visit his good friend, the ex-heavyweight champion, and he ended up receiving the most stunning phone call of his post-playing career. Angel East, Holmes’ secretary, told Dawkins that somebody from the NBA…
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Read on mcall.com →Mark Borda has turned into pure adrenaline, taking pretty much what he wants on the hardwood in all but one game for Bethlehem Catholic this season. It’s helping the senior make amends for a football season that was cut short because of a night of drinking., which was in…
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Read on mcall.com →Easton had to prove to itself, and to opponents around the Mountain Valley Conference, that it could win close games by making all the key plays. So what if it was on the road? And against a Freedom team that had won three in a row for the school’s best start since 1981? A year…
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