Stories By Jack McCaffery
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Intimidating 1983 Clippers win all-time ‘bragging rights’
The 1983 Chester High basketball team was bivouacked in a motel near Hershey the first time Darrin Pearsall understood the value...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: McGraw, Carroll complete another ladder climb
Of all the basketball coaching tricks perfected by Muffet McGraw, none has been more handy than knowing when to hide the...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoMcCaffery: All-Chester Delco Madness final sure to keep debates going
Randy Legette has seen them all, the state champions and the near-misses, the All-Americans and the overachievers, the Chester High basketball...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Coach Cliff Wilson confident 1983 Chester champs not yet out of breath
The season near its end, the state tournament and its still-haunting challenges next, Cliff Wilson had one more chance to learn...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Current coach convinced best O’Hara girls team was a thing of the past
In the 27 years since Cardinal O’Hara enjoyed a perfect season, girls basketball has evolved. There have been more summer camps...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Awry gunshot helped Pearsall help change Chester hoops history
A gunshot. A palm tree. A Greyhound bus. If the first Chester High state basketball championship was to be traced to...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Penn Wood takes rightful place in Chester-dominated Final Four
Before the Delco Madness tournament began to determine the best boys high school basketball team in Delaware County history, 2009 Penn...
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Delco Madness
/ 3 months agoMcCaffery: Fredia Gibbs remembers how 1981 Chester High girls team was a knockout
Long before she would become world-recognized for how powerfully she could hit things, Fredia Gibbs learned the sports value of the...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Chester girls give fans more reasons to cheer
A day earlier, in a tradition that began decades earlier, fans of Chester High basketball roared in approval as the 1983...
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Winter Sports
/ 3 months agoDelco Madness: Defensive Nether Providence girls back on a familiar path in Girls Sweet 16
The eternal truth about basketball-tournament brackets, the everlasting appeal, the lure that mesmerizes, the gravitational pull that makes them a world-wide...