De George: In pondering legacies, 2020 teams’ remain tragically incomplete
It wasn’t easy for Kevin Funston to address his Bonner-Prendergast boys basketball team last week. The conversation was freighted with disappointments, so many of...
Delco 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 of an attitude....
Delco 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 net-cutting scissors. While...
McCaffery: 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 teams that must...
Delco 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 something important. Already...
Delco 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 and better coaching,...
Delco 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 one of its...
Delco 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 Wood coach Clyde...
McCaffery: 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 accurate if gentle...
Delco 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 Nether Providence Bulldogs...