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Kobe Bryant Was Not the Only Hoops Superstar at Lower Merion; Sultan Shabazz Could Have Had It All
Kobe Bryant is undisputedly Lower Merion High School’s biggest basketball star, but there was another player before him who could have taken the world of hoops by storm, had he not thrown his career away the senior season, writes Mike Sielski for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Sultan Shabazz was ahead of Bryant by two years. He…
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Special Needs Children Play Sports, Make Friends Through Lower Merion’s Challenger Division Program
The Little League created a nationwide Challenger Division in 1989 to include children with physical and intellectual disabilities, and this program eventually made its way to Lower Merion Township, reports Matteo Iadonisi for 6abc. “We’ve been running that program for 15 or 20 years,” said Wally Orlov, President of the Lower Merion Little League. “And…
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Mali Native Powers Harcum College Men’s Basketball Team to Region Championship
The Harcum College men’s basketball team used a late run to overcome a second-half deficit to capture the 2022 National Junior College Athletic Association Region 15/19 Championship with an 87-74 victory over Monroe College (N.Y.). The two teams are longtime NJCAA rivals, and after they split their regular-season series, their matchup at West Chester University’s…
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Healthy Kids Running Series is Helping Bring Positive Lifestyles to Children and Families Across The Nation
Healthy Kids Running Series introduces children to a healthy active lifestyle in a fun, inspiring way, all by starting with one activity: running. Founded in 2009, Healthy Kids Running Series is a national, community-based non-profit that provides an inclusive five-week running series for boys and girls ages 2-14, laying the foundation for a healthy lifestyle…
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Manor College Men’s Basketball Seeded Fifth in USCAA Division I Small College National Championship Tournament
The Manor College Men’s Basketball team (10-5 overall, 2-3 Eastern States Athletic Conference) are seeded fifth in the 2022 United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Men’s Division I Basketball Small College National Tournament, as announced by Nate Gurtis, USCAA Assistant Director of Championships and Marketing. The Blue Jays have qualified for its sixth Postseason Tournament…
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Lower Merion’s Kobe Bryant’s Rarest Cards Fetches a Record $2Ms
One of the rarest Kobe Bryant cards sold last week for a record $2 million, making it the most expensive card ever sold of the Lower Merion High School and Los Angeles Lakers star, writes Eduardo Gonzalez for the Los Angeles Times. The sale of the 1997-98 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems Emerald Kobe Bryant…
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Tears Flow in This Video of Dick Vermeil Learning About His Hall of Fame Induction
Love and tears formed the foundation of Dick Vermeil’s hard-driving coaching methods. It should come as no surprise, then, that both were aplenty when Vermeil was recently notified by Kurt Warner — the quarterback who led their team, the St. Louis Rams, to a victory in Super Bowl XXXIV — that he’d be joining him…
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Arcadia University’s Hockey Coach Has Been Breaking Barriers Ever Since She First Stepped on the Ice
Kelsey Koelzer is making history at Arcadia University as the first Black woman to coach an NCAA team and the first Black person to occupy such a role in over 120 years of college hockey, writes Andrew Lawrence for the Sports Illustrated. Koelzer is an accomplished player who was a USA Hockey Under-22 selection in…
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Huntingdon Valley Native Continues to Subvert Expectations, Starts as Center for Houston Texans
Huntingdon Valley native Jimmy Morrissey is continuing to subvert expectations: he went from a college walk-on to starting four games as center for Houston Texans this season, writes Joseph Santoliquito for the Philly Voice. When he was leaving La Salle College High School, the 6-foot-3, 300-pound player was under-recruited and deemed undersized. He went on…
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Mighty Macs! Immaculata Celebrates 50th Anniversary of First Women’s College Basketball National Championship
On Sunday, March 19, 1972, Immaculata University’s women’s basketball team etched its name into sports history as the first women’s college basketball national champions. The team won two additional titles in 1973 and 1974. The Mighty Macs continued their dominance, reaching the Final Four in the following three seasons, placing second in 1975 and 1976…
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Philadelphia-area Colleges Join National Association of Collegiate Esports
Fans of esports and gamers in the Philadelphia region have a lot to look forward to. Many local colleges in the area have recently joined the National Association of Collegiate Esports Starleague, reports Taylor Allen for Axios. Among the colleges that joined the Starleague last fall are Temple, Drexel, St Joseph’s, and the University of…
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WCU Dance Team Earns Top Honors in Hip-Hop at College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship
The West Chester University Dance Team recently brought home gold as the Open Division Hip-Hop champions at the 2022 UCA & UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship. The team won for the first time in program history at the elite competition produced by the Universal Cheerleaders Association and Universal Dance Association and held…
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Lansdale Catholic Among 15 Schools Participating in Philadelphia Eagles’ New Girls’ Flag Football League
Philadelphia Eagles launched a new girls’ flag football league last week and Lansdale Catholic High School is among the 15 participants, according to a staff report from Catholic Philly. The inaugural season will kick off in the spring with an eight-game schedule for the teams. Along with the regular season, there will be an additional…
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Arcadia University Hockey Head Coach Builds School’s Program from Scratch
When he first joined Arcadia University in Glenside as a head coach, Vincent Pietrangelo was the only thing the hockey program had, writes James Cook for the Traverse City Record-Eagle. There were no players, equipment, uniforms, or even a skate sharpener. But the 30-year-old Pietrangelo relished the monumental task of building the whole program from…
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Sports Marketing Company’s New Berwyn HQ is a Sports Fan’s True Home Run
Playfly Sports, the sports marketing and media company, is opening a new office in Berwyn that will serve as its first true headquarters. Bret McCormick filed the play-by-play for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The company will make its new home in a three-story, 11,000-square-foot space at 22 Cassatt Avenue. Playfly executives see the move as…
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Alabama Quarterback Has Montco Ties That Go Back to Very Start of His Life
Bryce Young, a Heisman Trophy winner and quarterback for Alabama Crimson Tide, has strong local ties, writes Mike Jensen for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Despite his hometown being Pasadena, California, he was born on July 25, 2001, on the opposite coast – at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood. However, this is not his only connection to the…
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There’s a Lesson for All of Us in New Book About Kobe Bryant’s Formative Years on the Main Line
There have been several books written about basketball legend Kobe Bryant, and there will undoubtedly be several more. None, however, will have his local connections leaping off the page like they do in The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality by Mike Sielski, a Bucks County resident and an uber-talented sportswriter for The…
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Royersford’s Lucy Olsen, Freshman, Pulls Her Weight for Villanova Basketball Team
Villanova’s first-year student Lucy Olsen has had the unusual opportunity to start at point guard in every game since joining the Wildcats, writes Tyler Small for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “A lot of people dream of coming in and starting as a freshman, and that was my dream, for sure,” said the 5-foot-9 guard. Olsen ranks…
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