The SportsTalk Shop: Summer Hoops 2016 – Girls News
When I first saw the Easton girls team play in an early summer league game, I was this close (imagine my fingers about an inch apart) to saying that they were unequivocally the “team to beat” for the upcoming scholastic season–only to see them lose to Nazareth the next day. Since then I’ve seen…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: Lesson Learned?
Last week, I discussed the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) by Russian athletes during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. An investigation showed excessive manipulation by Russia’s sports ministry in the drug testing back to the 2011 and 2015 Olympic Games as well as the 2014 games in Sochi. Twenty-eight sports were implicated in the Russian…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Summer Hoops 2016 – Part 2
Last week here at “The Shop,” we examined the biggest summer hoops teams and tournaments in the Washington, DC and Eastern Pennsylvania regions. This week, we focus on more of the underrated storylines to our local scholastic basketball action this summer. Northampton & Pocono Mountain West Perhaps no single game I’ve seen this summer was more…
Read MoreBehind the Mic: PED’s
The Olympic Games begin in Rio on August 5 and will run through August 21. During the Olympics, inevitably there will be conversation about performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). The focus on enhancing performance through the use of drugs was magnified in 1976 when the East German female swimmers won 10 gold medals out of 12, six…
Read MoreThe SportsTalk Shop: Summer Hoops 2016 – Part 1
Summertime basketball has really exploded in the RCN viewing area over recent years, with rules expanding to make it more “coach friendly” (most of the time) and to increase the exposure of young athletes in both the Washington and Eastern Pennsylvania regions. Some of the best teams in the country come into the Lehigh Valley,…
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