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By John Nash
February 15th, 2008
Unless your shelling out thousands of dollars to a highly-qualified, big-city plastic surgeon, change oftentimes does not happen overnight.
In the sport-scape that surrounds the humble little burg you call home, the Wilton Basketball Association is proof of that.
Wilton, after all, is football country. Wilton is a lacrosse town. Wilton is a place where soccer can thrive.
But basketball? Putting a competitively planned youth basketball program would be akin to planting a cactus in a rain forest. It's like matching up Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep to headline a movie. It's like Stephen King writing a Harlequin Romance.
On the surface, it just didn't seem right.
By Staff Sgt. Stacy D. Foster
50th Space Wing Public Affairs
February 12th, 2008
2/12/2008 - PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- As Les Stewart watches the children in his youth basketball program, he wonders if the next big basketball star is right before his eyes. It's possible, he thought.
"To watch these kids grow and get better is an amazing thing," he said.
Mr. Stewart has been involved with the Peterson Air Force Base Youth Center program for the past five years and believes it is the best in the Air Force. The program was awarded the Excellence in Youth Sports Award in 2005 by the National Alliance for Youth Sports.
The year-round program includes many different sports, camps, and special events. Youth basketball began Feb. 2 and lasts through March.
By Greg DeVillers
February 10th, 2008
Kevin Sommer has dealt with a numbers crunch this winter.
The Cavalier High School coach has only 15 girls in grades 9-12 playing on his girls basketball team. While the team posted a 5-14 regular-season record, Sommer said there were students in the stands at every game who could have helped his team had they chosen to play.
“There are girls, good athletes, who aren't playing,” Sommer said. “And it's not just here. Whenever they get together, coaches are talking about it. A lot of us feel that kids don't feel it's worth the effort any more. It's a lot of extra work to be involved in athletics.” Sommer's team isn't alone. The Cavalier boys basketball team had only 16 high school students in its program, while the Tornadoes have 20 high school wrestlers in that program.
Grandieri's efforts to honor fallen friend stymied by University officials
By David Bernstein
February 7th, 2008
A captain in his senior season, Penn's Brian Grandieri has hit his share of big shots in his career. But even he'll tell you that the most meaningful points he ever scored weren't for Quakers coaches Fran Dunphy or Glen Miller.
They were for Evan Brady.
A neighbor, schoolmate and childhood friend of Grandieri, Brady was a standout lacrosse player for Rose Tree Media Optimist Youth Club, and seemed set to continue playing at Malvern Prep, a Catholic school outside of Philadelphia.
But on Sept. 11, 2001, at 15 years old, he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma - bone cancer.
| Adirondack CC | 4/1 & 4/8 |
| Broome CC | August 21, 2008 |
| Cayuga CC | Fall 2008 |
| Clinton CC | May 27, 2008 |
| Corning CC | |
| Columbia-Greene CC | July 19, 2008 |
| Dutchess CC | May 18, 2008 |
| Erie CC | TBA |
| F.I.T. | TBA |
| Finger Lakes CC | June 11th, 2008 |
| Fulton-Montgomery CC | August 5, 2008 |
| Herkimer CC | June 17th 2008 |
| Hudson Valley CC | May 6, 2008 |
| Jamestown CC | March 2008 |
| Jefferson CC | May 21, 2008 |
| Mohawk Valley CC | March 29, 2008 |
| Monroe CC | August 6, 2008 |
| Nassau CC | 3/1 & 3/11 |
| Niagara CC | 8/7, 9/13, 10/25 |
| Onondaga CC | April 26, 2008 |
| SUNY Orange CC | TBA |
| SUNY Rockland CC | May 6, 2008 |
| Schenectady CC | Summer 2008 |
| Suffolk CC | June 6, 2008 |
| Sullivan CC | TBA |
| Tompkins Cortland CC | May 5, 2008 |
| Ulster CC | October 7, 2008 |
| Westchester CC | 6/9, 7/16, and 8/14, 2008 |
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