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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 →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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Some may remember the ugly stuff — the errant passes, wild shots, hard falls and maybe even the Lehigh University mascot crawling underneath the back stage at one point. Others may remember the seven ties and five lead changes in the second half of the Lehigh-Lafayette Patriot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Whew! It was that close, that breathtaking. It was also that drenching, especially for La Salle coach Billy Hahn, who could have taken a shower at halftime of Tuesday night’s Big 5 game against Penn before a crowd of 3,722 at La Salle’s Gola Arena. By game’s end, after 45…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Maybe all theVillanova Wildcats needed was a break from the Big East and a Big 5 opponent to blow off steam against. Maybe even blowout. The Wildcats, coming off two straight losses and four setbacks in their last five games, accomplished all they so desired in a 102-73 victory…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was 30 seconds of extreme distress for Penn junior Ugonna Onyekwe, whose six missed free throws in that span allowed Saint Joseph’s to extend a Big 5 thriller to the final buzzer Saturday. The suspense extended for another minute or so while officials Jack Sweeney, Ray Perone…
· 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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →What seemed like a possible steal for Lehigh turned into a late giveaway against American Wednesday night at Stabler Arena. Victory was there for the taking with a little over 12 minutes remaining, and the Engineers leading the Patriot League’s co-first place occupants from the…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Billy McCaffrey should get out his notepad and scribble down a few things from Kort Wickenheiser, mostly about details of how to move up in the college basketball coaching ranks as an assistant coach before becoming the man in charge. Sometimes the game really is about paying…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Lafayette Leopards got a break from Patriot League play, but that warranted no thanks to the schedule makers. Not even for Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon, who patroled the sidelines and matched wits against his former boss, Penn coach Fran Dunphy, throughout an exhilarating…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette guard Brian Burke had a fresh haircut and a more emphatic offensive game, draining half-hook shots to first get himself on track Wednesday night. Then, following an extended second-half timeout because of an injury to an American cheerleader, Burke took the ball just…
· Andre D. Williams
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 →It’s mid-January now, the third week of league play all over the land. More rivals are hooking up, intensity escalating. What happened in November and December, setting the record straight, still matters. Just not as much. Win the league regular season title and gain extra…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The “Beast” arrived just in time to take a bite out of Colgate with a yeoman offensive play, and helped ignite a furious Lehigh rally in the final 9 minutes of Saturday night. For some reason, Bobby “The Beast” Mbom did not play a lick in the first half, but Engineers coach Sal…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· 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 →Too much “hot Koko” on a cold Saturday night and countless spot-up 3’s early on led to an inevitable doomsday for Lehigh by halftime Saturday night. But getting thumped by the more skilled, quicker, smoother, sharper-shooting Penn Quakers was a picture that had been in Lehigh…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Rich Baker, the ex-Stroudsburg High star making his first homecoming appearance as a starting guard for Rider, swished a 3-pointer from deep in the corner for his first basket Wednesday night. For Baker, what happened after that was just as he had hoped. First, Rider used its…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Maybe some of the “ballers’ from the ‘hood where Rich Baker grew up have succumbed to negative influences, and had their dreams of playing Division I basketball shattered. But not Baker. He continued to improve his slashing and shooting skills at Stroudsburg High en route to…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →As the 2002 part of the college basketball season rolls in, let’s take a capsule look at what has gone on and what is expected of Division I teams in the Lehigh Valley/Philadelphia/University Park areas. Lehigh — Playing against weaker teams has enabled the Engineers (3-8) to…
· Andre D. Williams
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