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Howard University coach Frankie Allen stood in stunned silence after a 3-pointer was made by Lafayette College senior guard Brian Burke late in the second half. Allen did a lot of the same throughout the Leopards’ 93-84 non-league victory Sunday afternoon before a crowd of 2,021…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Mini runs, that’s what Lafayette and Princeton had all game. Neither team could pull away until the final four minutes. Then the Leopards went cold from the outside and Princeton ran valuable time off the clock, punctuating their stall-offense possessions with layups as the shot…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Scoring at will has come so easy for Temple Univwersity guard Lynn Greer over the last two seasons that it’s hard to imagine that there was once a time when the slick All-America candidate warmed the bench. That’s because it was a long time ago. “When I was in middle school, I…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The Temple Owls are indeed a puzzle, because figuring them out can take all night. It may even take all season. That all depends on how fast sophomore guard David Hawkins can get on the same page with senior guard Lynn Greer and the rest of his teammates. One yeoman performance…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →What happens when the head basketball coach goes on a rampage, criticizing one player in particular in front of everybody in the gymnasium? Both are boiling, the coach from repeating himself and not getting expected results, and the player from being berated by a man other than…
· 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…
· Andre D. Williams
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…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →“Hit the showers,” the rowdy Saint Joseph’s student body shouted often. The verbal taunt was directed at Drexel center Steve Showers, a 6-9 freshman from Northwestern High. But numerous times throughout the No. 16 ranked Hawks’ 85-64 victory it seemed like outgunned and…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →No place in this city thumped more from the sound of cheers and chants galore from college basketball fanatics than the Palestra in the inaugural Big 5 Classic on Saturday. Never before had all Big 5 teams played in the same building on the same day with such an attractive cast…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →No place in this city thumped more from the sound of cheers and chants galore from college basketball fanatics than the Palestra in the inaugural Big 5 Classic on Saturday. Never before had all Big 5 teams played in the same building on the same day with such an attractive cast…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The night started with Lafayette coach Fran O’Hanlon, a Philadelphia native, having to listen to Drexel coach James “Bruiser” Flint being cheered by Dragons fans after receiving an Internet award for being the best-dressed coach in college basketball. “I knew I wasn’t even in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Michael Jordan has a ways to go before he catches up to Larry Holmes. His former Airness would have to retire and unretire from the NBA at least two more times. And Jordan, now a Washington Wizard sidelined with a sore right knee, would have to play into his 50s. “I think he…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Bewilderment rocked the Penn State campus two weeks ago when Yale beat the Nittany Lions on the basketball court. It has happened before. It’s just that nobody on the current Nittany Lions roster or head coach Jerry Dunn was even born when the Bulldogs beat Penn State 33-31 in…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Temple coach John Chaney looked quickly at center Ron Rollerson, who will be in the spotlight more than ever over the next two games, shoved the microphone closer to him and demanded that the 6-10 senior turn up his volume. Kind of like the way Rollerson turned up his game after…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →It was a game that was lost in a crushing way, kind of like The Grinch waiting for everybody to go to sleep before stealing gifts. Only this was a game Lafayette had control over, holding leads of seven points in both halves. But carelessness with the ball and missed layup…
· Andre D. Williams
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 →Fear in the form of 6-foot-6, 320-pound St. Peter’s center Kamaal McQueen was hustling toward Lafayette College’s Brian Burke. Not much would have been left of the skinny Burke had McQueen landed on him. Burke was thinking the same thing before using a swift move to avoid a…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Lafayette has been close. Really close to Miami of the Big East in the second half on Saturday. The Leopards also led Penn State by 13 points in the first half last Wednesday. The two road games ended in defeats, 75-66 to Penn State and 79-69 to Miami. Lafayette beat Albany,…
· 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 →Three recruits with ball-handling skills and from far away places will be joining Lehigh’s men’s basketball program next year. They are not just average players, either, to hear Engineers coach Sal Mentesana tell it. He has been all decked out in a suit and tie to see them all…
· 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
Read on mcall.com →They wait. They think, visualizing as best they can how the season-opening college basketball game will go. Winning big, yes that’s it, but the butterflies are still there. So are the what-ifs, like “What if we lose?” Like us, the nationally ranked team getting upset by the team…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →Dust blew off the ripped-up grass field and over the hills as the sun began to set near the close of a businesslike Easton High football practice Thursday evening. There was no smacking of the helmets, no banging up against each other as the Red Rover players jogged off the…
· Andre D. Williams
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