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Real or not? Not many of the fans crowded around the grandstands events area at Allentown’s Cedar Beach for the World Extreme Wrestling show Friday night seemed to care. The bottom line is that it was funny, at times thrilling, and best of all, free. That’s the way every event…
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Read on mcall.com →Rich Baker worked his whole life to become a Division I basketball player, and when the opportunity came, he earned a starting position in the backcourt of the Rider Broncs of the Metro Athletic Conference. But now Baker is again searching for the right college situation. Rider…
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Read on mcall.com →The financial stability was there all season. The emotional stability never was. The mixture was a bad combination for the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, one that led to disgruntlement within the organization, failure on the basketball court, and ultimately, a disappointing finish to…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins has been a professional basketball player and head coach, and now some of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs hope he is promoted one more level. Veterans Ronnie Fields and Cory Hightower, who helped the team win the franchise’s first United States Basketball League…
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Read on mcall.com →The Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs spent about as much energy trying to beat the Adirondack Wildcats as Lehigh University officials probably used trying to keep Stabler Arena cool Sunday afternoon. Cool play that included slashes through the lane for baskets and high-flying dunks were…
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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 →A bruised left leg, hip and sore butt suffered during a fall in a road race in St. Paul, Minn., did not slow Olympic sprint champion Marty Nothstein in his homecoming Friday night at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. No, the man nicknamed “The Blade” was aggressive and blazing as…
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Read on mcall.com →The tag team of professional cycling — with coordination, slick moves and ever-present speed — will all be on display in the featured racing event tonight at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome in Trexlertown. Young, blazing riders such as 19-year-old Bobby Lea of Mertztown and Kyle…
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Read on mcall.com →The search for new players to fill the void left by graduating seniors and transfers led Lafayette men’s basketball coach Fran O’Hanlon into the European talent pool. O’Hanlon found two 6-7 forwards who, he said, are athletic but need work. In other words, Miran Omanovic, a…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins, who has awed sports fans throughout the Lehigh Valley since he arrived in the spring of 1999 as head coach of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. He lives in the Valley; his wife is from here. He and assistant coach Rick Nash have…
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Read on mcall.com →Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs coach Darryl Dawkins might have pulled his hair out — if he had any — Friday night. And yanking some from his good friend Larry Holmes’ head appeared out of the question. That might have resulted in a fight, something most of the players Dawkins was…
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Read on mcall.com →The basket has been made. The free throw is on the way. And one. The phrase has been heard on a zillion playgrounds and in an equal number of gymnasiums over the years. The And 1 Mix Tape Tour will be stopping at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia Saturday, where some of the best…
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Read on mcall.com →The rumble is on. The raging bull that is Mike Tyson is fighting the heavyweight champion with the glass jaw, Lennox Lewis, late tonight at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tenn. No heavyweight championship bout has had this much hype since Tyson and Evander Holyfield went “tooth-to-ear”…
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Read on mcall.com →A one-on-one matchup between former NBA centers Darryl Dawkins and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might have been just as entertaining as the United States Basketball League game both men coached in Thursday night Stabler Arena. Just imagine, Abdul-Jabbar scoring on perhaps the most…
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Read on mcall.com →The intense look was still there, though occasionally broken with a quick smile. Then, back to focusing, teaching, going over in his mind during a short practice Wednesday evening at Stabler Arena what it is he needs to do to turn the Oklahoma Storm into a winner. It may be the…
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Read on mcall.com →Three players with impressive athletic backgrounds have been sold on Lehigh University and men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor. Lehigh, despite having authored only one winning season since going 19-10 in 1991, has become the choice of 6-1 transfer guard Austen Rowland and of…
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Read on mcall.com →Lennox Lewis is just four days away from defending his World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship titles against the one man former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes believes Lewis is probably scared to fight. That man is the loose cannon that…
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Read on mcall.com →Forget about the rocking chair that some people might have been thinking about as a goodbye gift to Evander Holyfield. “I’m going to be here a long time,” Holyfield said following his lopsided victory over Hasim Rahman in a heavyweight elimination bout Saturday night at the…
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Read on mcall.com →The five tattoos on the body of Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs guard Quincy Wadley are not there just for looks. Neither are the rubber bands he wears around both wrists. “Everything has a meaning,” Wadley said. “I don’t just put anything on. The one last tattoo that I will get, that…
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Read on mcall.com →Evander Holyfield used nothing but his fists, padded with boxing gloves. But it seemed like the former four-time heavyweight champion was using a baseball bat against another former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman, Saturday night before a crowd of 9,831 at the Boardwalk Hall.…
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Read on mcall.com →Lehigh University’s rookie men’s basketball coach Billy Taylor has quickly found out how much of a demanding job it is to maintain cohesiveness in a Division I program. Taylor, 28, has also come to understand that there are some things that he just can not control. Like…
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Read on mcall.com →The future fast lanes of District 11 athletes may have been paved by Bethlehem Catholic’s Eddie Scipio and his supporting cast of Golden Hawks sprinters in the PIAA Track and Field Championships last weekend at Shippensburg University. Scipio, a senior three-sport star, anchored…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic’s Maurice Simmons boasted about what he did Friday night at the school prom. “I danced all night,” the Golden Hawks junior sprinter said. So did his teammate, junior Frank Trovato. “I had a good time,” Trovato said. In some ways, they rewarded themselves early…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic pole vaulter Neil Schwab thought he was going to get an energy boost from a power bar he ate during competition in the Class 2A portion of the event in the PIAA Track and Field Championships Friday at Shippensburg University. Instead, the junior got sick to…
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