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  Joe Malizia's game films/tapes are still available via his son, Joe Jr. Click here and/or check the Youtube channel. Joe Jr.s new email address is joseph.malizia.jr@gmail.com
  Links to CL basketball individual scoring pages: B-P - Carr - C-E - Devon - Dough - Dough extra - Judge - Ken/K-K - Ken/K-K extra --  Lans - La S - McD - McD extra - North - North extra - O'Hara - Roman - Ryan - SC/Neum/N-G - St. J - St. J extra - SJP - STM - STM extra - West --Wood.
  Click here for special accomplishments by basketball players/teams from the six Catholic League schools that have closed aince 1975 -- STM, SJ, CD, BK/K-K, NC and BM.
  Links to I-A basketball individual scoring pages: EA - GA - HS - MP - PC - CHA/SCH (Career totals for all I-A scorers, 1969-2022, listed at bottom of pages for each school; overall list is here.)
  Click here for individual scoring in league/playoff games for all Pub basketball champs, 1940-2015.
  Rosters of CL football champs, 1980-2006 -- click here. 
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  Cindy (Antoni) Conaway's great career/life, Click here.
  Don "Fris" Conaway recaps his time as Ted's sidekick. Cliek here. 
  Rosters of Pub football champs, 1979-2007 -- click here.
  Penn Charter's football rosters, 1981-2010 -- click here.
  Ted's baseball finals scoresheets -- Catholic here, Public here.
  Summer Project 2018. Click here for 194 pics.
  Summer Project 2019. Click here for 92 pics.
  The Twitter page for Eastern Regional athletics is here.
  The online version of Eastern Regional's school newspaper, The Voyager, is here.
  Click here for links to all Eastern Regional photo sets/descriptions (and other sets involving South Jersey schools) in 2018 & 2019.
  Click here for a list of champs/title recaps for Catholic League girls basketball.
  Click here for Ed "Huck" Palmer's double-decade Catholic League All-Star Football Teams, by school, 2000-19.
  All files for Pandemic Project 2020 can now be found in the upper right corner on this page.

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  This page from 2016 includes stories about 87 "Our Guys" who advanced to the NFL, NBA or MLB. Fifteen stories were added in 2020, bringing the total to 102.
  Story Time album is here.
  A page that celebrates the 53-year career of media giant Ray Didinger is here
  Ongoing . . .
  Click here for Ed "Huck" Palmer's statistical coverage of Catholic League football on easternpafootball.com -- TEAM PAGES, leader boards, etc. TEAM PAGES for Penn Charter and Malvern now included.
  Click here for Ed "Huck" Palmer's complete, game-by-game stats for 2021-22 Catholic League basketball teams. Click here for Huck's CL all-star teams and special awards.
  **Click here for Huck's All-Catholic football teams -- Overall, Red, Blue.**
  Huck's CL team/individual stats leaders for 2020-21 basketball are here. As are team-by-team stats, leader boards in many categories.
  Click here for basketball rosters for Catholic/Inter-Ac teams. (All rosters now posted. Thanks!)
  The schedule/results/complete boxscores for Catholic League basketball are here.
  Individual scoring in Inter-Ac League basketball games is posted here.
  PIAA boys basketball brackets/schedules . . . Class 6A - Class 5A - Class 4A - Class 3A.
  Tribute Pages: Devon Prep --- Roman --- Neumann-Goretti
  Updates on the Donofrio Classic can be accessed here.
  Click here for the 2021-22 All-City Basketball Team; courtesy of Randy Miller / The Miller Report. And the All-State Basketball Teams, selected by Pennsylvania Sports Writers.
  **Click here for new info from the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame.**
  Speedy Morris will be a recipient of the 2022 Joe Lapchick Character Award on Friday, Nov. 16, at the New York Athletic Club. Doors open at 11 a.m. Luncheon/presentations noon to 3 p.m. Website is here.

July 1
  In 1994, Ted wrote a 25th-year anniversary story about Leroy Reams' one-game career with the Phillies. Click here. Rest of story is here.

June 30
  RIP, Jim Halpin. Jim, a 1963 grad who for years held Judge's school record for points in one game (34), passed away today. His sons, Jim and Mike, played for Carroll. Nephews Steve and Kevin Wolf played for Judge.
  In 2008, Phola. Academy's Dave Pachucki pitched a no-no with 17 Ks. Click here.

June 29
-\In 2014, all kinds of Carroll players scored in back-to-back games. Quite the contrast to a 1983 game. Click here.

Juue 28.
  Anthony Finkley is confident with his Roman decision (and Saint. Joe's). Click here.
   Let's never forget . . . In 2008, West Catholic's Tom Sessa recorded the best kind of save. Click here.

June 27
  Forty years ago, Frankford sr, RHP Richie McKay received word he'd been drafted by the Yankees. . . Oops by MLB and then  The Sporting News. Click here.
  Trivia answer . . . There were five readers who got the Randy Grossman trivia question right. They were Ken Woodring, Notre Dame Harvey, Tom Meakim, Bob Romeo, and Dan Solis-Cohen with Ken Woodring being the first to post. Worth noting, that several readers gave the incorrect answer of Northeast High graduate Herb Adderley. Herb won three Super Bowls, but he did win three NFL championships before the Super Bowl existed. If the question was: What area player has won the most NFL championships?---the answer would be Adderley because he won six with three NFL championships and three Super Bowls, which are now the NFL championship game. Adderley is second all-time only to Tom Brady who has won seven NFL championship. In his case, all are Super Bowls.
   Trivia question from Chuck Langerman . . .  Name the former southeastern Pennsylvania High school football player who leads all former Philadelphia-area high school football players with four Super Bowl rings for being on four Super Bowl winners. (Hint: His cousin Burt was a pretty good football player at Archbishop Carroll HS.) Send your answer to chucklang@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thanks!

June 25
  A section of Hunting Park Avenue right in front of Gratz is now named Rasheed Wallace Road. Click here and/or here. ('Sheed is now a Lakers assistant.)

June 24
  The third Adam Taliferro/coach Larry Ginsburg 7-on-7 Classic will be held tomorrow at Eastern Regional. Click here for participants/schedule.
  Roman product (kinda/sorta) Jalen Duren was selected in the first round of the NBA draft. Name now on this list. (His dad, Anthony "Skip" Duren, starred for Southern in a 1991 quarterfinal win over  Dobbins -- 19 points, eight rebounds, four assists, three steals.)|
  Villanova's Collin Gillespie (Wood) has signed a two-way deal with Denver, per Mike Jensen. Click here. Two more NBA signees, per Jensen: St. Joseph's Jordan Hall (N-G) to San Antonio and Iowa State's Izaiah Brokington (Ryan) to New Orleans.
  On Aug. 6, the Phillies will pay tribute (manner TBA) to Dick Allen.
  The 2014 football season brought Part Two of Can Anyone Make a Tackle? Click here.

June 23
  On Oct. 25, 2003, with fellow all-timer Eddie Gaskins (Frankford) in attendance, West Catholic's Curtis "Boonah" Brinkley broke two city records. Special Page, with photos, is here.

June 22
  Three hoops seasons ago Haverford School finished perfect at 29-0  Taking a look is well worth it. Click here.

June 21
  Three Eastern Regional players earned baseball honors in the Olympic Conference, American Division. Click here.
  Tiiiime for a Chuck Langerman Chuckbit. Never know how far a javelin throw might take you. Click here.
  And Ryan's treys just kept on coming. Cliek here.

June 20
  With his coach in attendance, Wood all-timer Gary Martin went out a winner. Click here.
  RIP, Lennie Rosenbluth. Mr. Rosenbluth, who led North Carolina to the 1957 NCAA championship over Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain, died Saturday. Click here.
  In 2006, Chestnut Hill's blockers cleared paths, then wolfed down grub. Click here
  Trivia nnswer . . . No one provided the correct answer, J.T. Realmuto. Name the current Philadelphia Phillies baseball player who led the USA in home runs as a high school senior in 2010 with 28 homers??? Send to chucklang@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thanks

June 19
  Eastern Regional product Amirah Ali is pumped for her first pro soccer game in her native New Jersey. Clikc here. 

June 17 
  Congrats to the Golden Sate Warriors. the first NBA champs in 1947-48 as the Philadelphia Warriors and yet again the league's best thanks to last night's Game Six win over Boston. That's title No. 7. Click here.
  In 2007, John Barr created quite the stir with a perfect game to open Germantown Academy's season. Literally. No scrimmages. Not even an outdoor practice. Click here.

June 16
  Perhaps the best example ever of Only in the Pub. Click here. Hard to believe 17-plus years have passed.
  Biggest weight difference ever between a team's kicker and punter? Olney's Dontae Angus (310 K) and Valsky Auguste (135 P)   9/15/11. Click here.
                                            
June 15
  Ten years ago today, La Salle became the first Catholic League school to win a state baseball championship. Click here for the Celebration Page with everything you want/need. Go, 'Splorers!
  On May 15, 2012, Bonner visited Carrroll for The Lumber Bowl. Pics here.

June 14
  Mark Gubicza (middle, red shirt), meets with former Penn Charter teammates, etc., at recent Phillies-Angels game. Click here.
  The final field goal in North Catholic's gym in 2010. Click here. . . . . But should it have counted? Report under Feb. 17.

June 12
  David Armstrong is Wood's new football coach. Click here.
  Trivia answer: Dan Dougherty, who enjoyed major success at Malvern and Episcopal. Correct answers were supplied in order by Tom Meakim, Dan Solis-Cohen and Notre Dame Harvey.
  Entertaining basketball pic. Click here.
  Trivia question from Chuck Langerman . . . Bobby Knight coached basketball at Army West Point from 1965 to 1971. compiling a record of 102-50. His former player Mike Krzyzewski coached at Army from 1975 to 1980 with a record of 73-59. Who was the head basketball coach at Army between Knight and Krzyzewski from 1971 to 1975. Send answer to chucklang@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thanks!)

June 11
  No Tedbit today/tomorrow. See ya Monday. thanks.

June 10
  Time for a Chuck Langerman Chuckbit. Millville's Lotzeir Brooks. Only a frosh, yet quite the handful. Click here.
Pub Tedbit
  From 1974 through 2015, 12 players made at least three starts in Public League semifinals and two guys, Gratz'
Rasheed Wallace and Franklin Learning Center's Faron "Meatball" Hand, did so four times. 'Sheed was perfect and scored 78 points, going up each year. The breakdown for all 12 is below. The overall record was 29-9.

June 9
  In his first year as the baseball coach at Penn State Abington, Chestnut Hill Academy product David Miller has prouduced a MAJOR star, Ryan McCarty. Click here.
Pub Tedbit
  In the 76 seasons from 1940 through 2015, how many times -- in any playoff game -- did five players score
in double figures for the evenrual champion? The answer is seventeen and that hit me as kinda low. One
 reason: Playoff formsts differed widely. Another reason: Teams did not fly up and down as often as they did
 in the regular season. The feat was accomplished five times in finals, zero imes in semis, four times in
 quarters and eight times in the  round-of-16. So. did six guys ever reach double figures. Yes, just once --
Southern vs. West Philly in the '87 final. And twice two subs were part of the fivesomes. In that '82
Mastbaum-Franklin final, the latter had four double-digit scorers. Franklin led in other points scored
by subs, 6-4..

June 8
  Click here for Matt Breen's story on Ryan grad Jonathan Loughran, Adam Sandler's long-time movie sidekick.
(And thanks to Matt for publishing Jon's kind words.)
Pub Tedbit
  The regular season has just ended and your top assistant pulls yo aside with a worried look on hix face.
Somehow he doubts that the team's best player will surpass his average even ONCE in the upcoming playoffs.
Uh oh? Not really. The list below shows a scoring breakdown for 41 Pub champs, 1975 through 2015. The
leading regular season scorer topped his average only 44 percent of the time, but every guy won a championship.
Kinda surprising, right? Two players achieved perfection -- Bo Kimble in 1985 and Fatts Russell in '15. Of those who whiffed, three advanced o the NBA -- Lionel Simmons, Aaron McKie and Marcus Morris-- and Carlin Warley's
dad, Ben, played in the show. Thankfully, they all had supportive teammates.

June 7
  From Chuck: No correct answers. Jason Harrigan now coaches at SJ Prep. Previously coached at Del-Val Charter and O'Hara.

June 6
  Trivia question from Chuck Langerman . . . Name the basketball player, who played for St. Joseph's University
Big Five Hall of Famer Bryan Warrick at Burlington City High School in New Jersey, before going on to coach
three Philadelphia City League high school teams? Send answers to chucklang@hotmail.com by 2 p.m. Thanks!
Pub Tedbit
  As promised Friday, here are the biggest crush jobs in quarterfinals and round of 16 playoffs throgh 2015.

June 5
  Congrats to SCH Academy product Chris "Bubba" Alleyne, a fifth-year senior OF at Maryland. Already
named the Big Ten Player of the Year, now he's a first team All-Ameriacn! Click here.
  No Pub Tedbit today. See ya tomorrow. Thanks.

June 4
Extra Tedbit
  Here is the latest breakdown for "Our Guys" and NBA/ABA playoff points. Kyle Lowry mow ranks third
in points and fiffh in PPG. And Wilt Chamberlain still trails Paul Arizin in PPG, 24.2 to 22.5, for the top sot.
Incredible.
  Thanks to Ted Rauch for the help.

Jnne 3
Pub Tedbit
  The list below shows the biggest blowouts in finals and semis through the 2015 season. Just getting
warmed up, folks. Check back Monday for quarterfinals and Round of 16 crush jobs.

June 2
Pub Tedbit
  So, your high school is known for having very good basketball teams and maybe once a decade somebody
advances to the NBA. Pretty exciting, right? But let's go back to the late 1950s at Ovenrook. The 1957-58
Panthers/Hilltoppers won the Public League and City championships and finished with a 22-0 record. The
starting lineup included THREE future NBA players, center Wayne Hightower and guards Walt Hazzard
and soph Wali Jones. Jones became a starter in the middle of the season when  Howie Horenstein
graduated. That's how it was back then. All Pub schools had two senior classes. Hightower won the
Markward Club Award as the city's top senior, but there were folks who strongly believed the best
prospect on 'Brook was junior Ralph Heyward, who made first team All-Public. In 59, Overbrook again
won double championships and, like Hightower before him, Heyward was baned to the Parade All-America
Team. He played three seasons of college ball, one at Kansas in '61 and two at Seattle in '64 and '65. He
was limited to nine games, with only nine in '64. He totaled 238 points and 150 rebounds. Below are pro
stats for Hightower, Hazzard and jones. One more thing: In the late '50s Overbrook had a sub named
Leonard Borisoff. In time he became Len Barry and enjoyed a terrific singing career with the Dovells
(Bristol Stomp) and as a solo artist (1-2-3).

June 1
  Imhotep's Keon Wylie earned team MVP honors while leading PA past Maryland, 28-7, in the Big 33
Classic. Click here.
  Mike Missanelli is out at 97.5, the Fanatic. Click here and/or here.
Pub Tedbit
  Time to reveal the longsest streaks by Public League schools with first team All-Public honorees,
1941-2015. The cutoff was four years and even wih that a surprising number of schools fell short of
making the list. Gratz is first at 13 and most of those years Leonard Poole. not Bill Ellerbee, was the
coach. Bartarm and Strawberry Mansion are tied for second at 11, Franklin Learning Center
toughed out two streaks of eight. In its old days at 8th & Lehigh, Northeast's streak featured
two future HOFers, Guy Rodgers (basketball) and Herb Adderley (football).

est Philly was next with four.

May 17
  Best wishes going forward to umpire extraordinaire (and person) Gene Otto, who worked Catholic League games for 46 years and assigned the crews for 31! He soon will be inducted into the CL Hall of Fame. Major congrats, Gene!
  Click here for Matt Breen's story on Wood super-runner Gary Martin.
Pub Tedbit
  A look at semis/finals results for two of the top coaches in city history, Gratz' Bill Ellerbee (20 years) and West Philly's Joe Goldenberg (21 years). . .

May 16
  *Click here for a page that celebrates the 53-year career of sports media giant Ray Didinger, who soon will retire. Ray did it all while remaining the nicest man you could ever hope to meet!_
  Big day last Friday for Penn Charter vs. rival Germantown Academy. Aidan Mehta hammered a walkoff grand slam to lead the baseball team to victory and Colin Michener, in OT, thanks to a steal and open-net goal, lifted the lacrosse team to victory. Colin is about to become a third generation PC grad.
  Time for a Chuck Langerman Chuckbit. A Cheltenham grad has caused Embiid's devastation. Click here.
Pub Tedbit
  You should have known this one: My first Public League Tedbit would be focused on Wilt Chamberlain. Some of you might have learned through the years that his three biggest outbursts were 90, 74 and 71 points and that all three took place versus Roxborough. As you'll see below, thanks to numbers nailed down long ago by Tom Taylor, Wilt also posted 59 vs. Dobbins and hit every number from 49 on down to 24 except for 27. Pretty amazing. Overall, in three varsity seasons (ninth grade was part of junior high back then), he scored 46.9 percent of the Hilltoppers' points. 

ay 15
  Virginia Tech RB Raheem Blackshear (Wood) has signed a free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills.

May 14
  In today's CL track championships, Wood sr. Gary Martin became the first Pennsylvania kid to clock under 4 minutes in the mile (3:57.98). Major congrats! Click here.
  As the video coordinator, former SJ Prep player Mark Hueber has joined the staff of La Salle University's new basketball coach, Fran Dunphy. Click here. Even in grade school, Mark wrote hoops reports for this website. Click here for his efforts in 2007. Best of luck, Mark!
  No Tedbit today/tomorrow. See ya Monday for the first Pub Tedbit. Thanks.

May 13
  Click here for a pic of special honoree Mark Heimerdinger from last night's Northeast Times Awards Banquet.
Tedbt
  Below is the Inter-Ac's version of yesterday's list. The leader at 7.3 is Germantown Academy's Craig White from '87 to '88. Two teammates also make an appearance -- Malvern's Deuce Turner and Rahdir Hicks in 2019 and '20.

May 12
  **Note from Ted: At some point next week, I will shift the focus of Tedbits to Public Leagye basketball. Please tell your friends. (The first one will feature some tall guy from Overbrook -- smile).**
  B-P's baseball team beat La Salle to clinch first place. Click here.
  Congrats to Lansdale Catholic softball coach Paul Suder, who now owns 300 vistories!
Tedbit
  If you checked the boxscores each day in the 1967-68 basketball season, you had to figure O'Hara's Joe Hazinsky was miserable. He'd averaged 21.9 points in the previous campaign while earning first team All-Catholic honors, but now his numbers were falling and darn near plummeting. What was the deal? Fighting an injury and/or sickness? Saddled with some knuckleheaded teammates? Nope, the team was better, much better, and Hazinsky did not have to pump away. His final average was 13.6 and he again made first team All-Catholic. Oh, and there was this: O'Hara won the CL championship in just its fourth season of participation! Future NBA player Tom Ingelsby, a junior. was one of the starters. The list below shows average dips of at least three points for CL first-teamers from junior to senior season. Hazinsky played college ball at St. Francis (PA) and owns a spot in the school’s Athletics HOF. Congrats!