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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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The right hand of challenger Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga kept landing, backing up and often doing damage to Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis. Then came the furious conclusion. Mayorga came with everything in his arsenal and flattened Lewis to score a technical knockout at 1 minute, 8…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The telephone at the Pennsylvania VallyDawgs headquarters in Easton rang more often than usual Tuesday, but not all the calls were from people wondering if head coach Darryl Dawkins was really serious about wanting to coach at Lehigh University. Inquiring minds, mostly those of…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The marketing department at Lehigh University would probably have some fun promoting the men’s basketball program, perhaps billing it as “chocolate delight,” if the man formerly known as “Chocolate Thunder” is hired as the school’s next head coach. Don’t laugh. This is serious.…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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,…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →– Lafayette’s Brian Burke didn’t have it until the end. Teammate Winston Davis had it all game, especially when he soared for rebounds. Davis grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds Saturday afternoon, but the Leopards blew a 17-point lead before surviving a suspenseful finish to beat…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →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 →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 →That 25-0 record the Parkland Trojans posted in the regular season has been playing on the mind of Emmaus center Aaron Gray. Now more than ever, following Gray’s dominating performance in Emmaus’ 56-47 victory over Freedom in the District 11 Class 4A boys basketball preliminary…
· Andre D. Williams
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 →It was just the second day of February but it seemed like March. It’s the Temple Owls time of season. Time when they seem to smother opponents with that pesky zone defense. It doesn’t matter who the opponent is or where they play the game. They seem to play every game with the…
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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…
· Andre D. Williams
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 →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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was about 2 hours before game time last Thursday in Emmitsburg, Md., a serene small town about 75 miles north of Washington, D.C., and ex-Whitehall star Jerry Lloyd was seemingly as calm as the environment in which he has lived during the last four school years. “I like it…
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Read on mcall.com →Watching from the bench at the climax of a Big 5 matchup in the old and stuffy Palestra seemed a little odd for Drexel freshman Danny Hinds Wednesday night. Especially since the game against neighboring University of Pennsylvania was close. “I don’t know if I would have been…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Easton Red Rovers went from winning red ribbons seven days ago as District 11 Class 4A runner ups to routing their crossbridge rival Phillipsburg 28-7 on Thanksgiving Day. Tears were shed after both games, especially by Easton senior two-way star Jesse Pellegrino. Red Rovers…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Easton senior tailback Sean Burgio is entering another Thanksgiving Day with his dinner plans on hold. But he’s not all that concerned with keeping his grandparents on his mother’s side in limbo, because they live in Phillipsburg, which is Easton’s annual Turkey Day football…
· Andre D. Williams
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