Basketball  

Jerry Johnson turned 30 recently, and was sure he was going to start falling apart.
Never mind that things appear to have fallen into place for Johnson, one of the finest players in McCaskey basketball history. He just finished playing his seventh season overseas, in Kazakhstan, and is under contrac...

 

Ten days ago, Andre Iguodala of the Sixers grabbed a missed Chicago Bulls free throw, turned to the other end of the floor and thundered there, flying, rampaging, as if in a race.
Which, in effect, he was.
The Sixers trailed Chicago by a point. This was Game 6 of a first-round NBA playoff ...

Two Lancaster-Lebanon League girls' basketball players were named to the Associated Press Pennsylvania High School All-State team, which was released Wednesday.

Porscha Speller, a 5-foot-7 junior point guard for Lancaster Catholic, was a First-Team selection in Class AAA, while Lebanon Catholic's...

Charlie Detz is passionate about coaching.

But the former Penn Manor boys' basketball coach is more passionate about spending time with his family, which includes his wife and children ages 5 and 9.

"During the season I leave for work at 7:30 (a.m.) and don't get home until 9:30 (p.m.), so I'm...

Lamar Patterson helped Pittsburgh end its disappointing season on a high note.
Patterson, the former McCaskey star, had 14 points, eight rebounds and five assists to help the Panthers (22-17) defeat Washington State (19-18) 71-65 Friday night in Pittsburgh to win the College Basketball Invitational....

We could start with the fact that Porscha Speller, Lancaster Catholic's leading scorer, didn't have a single point by game's end.
Or that the Crusaders, who were coming off a 90-point effort in Wednesday's semifinals, had a measly 14 points at halftime — almost matching the number of turnovers...

The top three in the USA Today national high school basketball rankings are Oak Hill Academy of Mouth of Wilson, Va.; Findlay Prep of Henderson, Nev.; and St. Anthony's of Jersey City, N.J.
Programs that threaten to reduce the term high school basketball to euphemism.
All national brand names in the...

One is barely five feet tall. The other is 5-foot-10, with a thin frame that makes her anything but an intimidating, physical presence on the floor.

In short, Lancaster Catholic reserve guard Erin Holt and reserve forward Elizabeth Veronis look like your typical high school freshmen.

They don'...

Highlights from today's pep rally at Lancaster Catholic High School for the Crusader girls basketball team, which will face Archibishop Wood in the PIAA Class AAA championship Saturday at 6 p.m. at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center.

The Crusaders (30-3) are gunning for their fourth state champions...

Even before the opening tip-off Wednesday night, things weren't going well for Lancaster Catholic's girls' basketball team.

The public address announcer was apparently holding an inaccurate Crusaders roster. He announced Alyssa Aichele as Porscha Hunter. Emily Martin as Aichele. And Hunter, the t...