Stories By Jack McCaffery
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Winter Sports
/ 9 hours 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...
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Winter Sports
/ 1 day agoDelco Madness: John Waller’s 1992 TCA Crusaders were never out of place in a tournament
Maybe it was the first time his 1992 Christian Academy basketball team won a tournament, or the second, or the third....
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Winter Sports
/ 1 day agoDelco Madness: Chester’s 1983 team enjoys a double shot of history in Sweet 16 win
A history to shed. A history to build. Such were the dual burdens Chester High faced as it hit double overtime...
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Winter Sports
/ 2 days agoDelco Madness: Sweet 16 Weekend arrives, schedules, ground rules set
The Sweet 16 weekend of Delco Madness is about to begin. By Monday, the mythical boys and girls tournaments to determine...
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Winter Sports
/ 4 days agoDelco Madness: Lines set, matchups analyzed for Sweet 16 girls games
Breaking down the matchups and setting the mythical lines for the first-round games of the Delco Madness Sweet 16: • No....
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Winter Sports
/ 4 days agoDelco Madness: Disturbed by 14 seed, Prendie coach expects tourney success
With no doubt that he would enjoy a fulfilling Selection Monday and that his 1984-85 Archbishop Prendergast team would earn one...
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Winter Sports
/ 5 days agoDelco Madness: State-winning Penn Wood coach Clyde Jones driven by ‘Chester bias’
In his many successful years as a Delaware County basketball coach, Clyde Jones never had trouble calculating a basketball score. That...
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Winter Sports
/ 5 days agoDelco Madness: Line indicates some close games, potential upsets in boys Sweet 16
Breaking down matchups, setting mythical lines for the first-round of the Delco Madness Sweet 16: • No. 1 Chester (2012) vs....
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Winter Sports
/ 1 week agoDelco Madness: Debate over Sweet 16 boys teams already raging
As much as Selection Sunday traditionally provides entertainment to basketball fans, its appeal would not be as strong without what would...
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Girls Basketball
/ 1 week agoDelco Madness: Hall of Fame coach Muffet McGraw OK with ’79 Carroll being an ‘underdog’
She has coached two NCAA championship basketball teams. She was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame. She has won five...