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March 9:
Wayne Patterson, East.
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March 8:
Tom Taylor starred for McDowell’s basketball team, earning a spot on the 1982 Keystone squad for the Roundball Classic in Pittsburgh after averaging 16.4 points, 11.8 rebounds and three blocks per game as a senior. The 6-foot 6-inch three-time all-PSAC West selection scored 1,183 points for Edinboro from 1984 to 1987, 17th on the program’s career scoring list entering the 2009-10 season. He also was 16th with 648 rebounds. Most remarkable is his career field goal percentage of .523, 11th in Scots’ history. Only one Edinboro player who attempted as many shots as Taylor did is higher on the career list: Billy Wade (1986-90), second at .573 (571-of-997). Taylor made 459-of-877 field goals.
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Four years ago, Freddy Adu was seemingly a lock to be on the 2010 World Cup team. He was going to team up with Landon Donovan in some way to boost the USA’s offense as the national team made its expected four-year improvement on the international stage.
This was all based on the fact he was 16 years old and playing with professionals. It wasn’t so long ago he was the future of American soccer.
But now, Adu has only an outside chance of even making the U.S. squad that goes to South Africa.
That begs the question: Whatever happened to Adu?
Since his move to Europe three years ago, which was supposed to jump-start his career out of Major League Soccer, he has bounced around benches in Portugal, France and now Greece, finding little playing time and making little impact.
Adu has scored twice for his Greek team Aris, his first two goals since moving to Europe.
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March 7:
Cory Ace won the Class AAA 135-pound title for Franklin at the PIAA wrestling championships in 1998. At Edinboro he was a 2002 All-American at 133 pounds and a four-time NCAA Division I championships qualifier, primarily at 141 pounds. After serving as an assistant coach at Old Dominion, Ace is an assistant coach at Waynesville High School in Missouri.
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March 6:
Joe Tarasovitch played on the 1980 Cathedral Prep team that won Erie’s first PIAA basketball championship, but he made his name as a football coach in the succeeding years. He went 75-56 in a two-decade career, inclulding 18-14 at McDowell, 40-16 at Fort LeBoeuf and 17-26 at Central, where two of his teams were state powerhouses.
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March 5:
East High School legend Woody Thompson won the 1971 PIAA heavyweight wrestling championship before starring as a running back at the University of Miami (Fla.) and being drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the third round of the 1975 draft. He played three NFL season with Atlanta, rushing for 877 yards and one touchdown and catching 42 passes for 259 yards. Today he is an assistant program manager in the Erie City School District.
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March 4:
Former Girard High School and Grove City College basketball star T.L. Thompson is now the girls basketball coach at Grove City Area High School.
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March 3:
Jim Tarbell, Union City High School basketball (1973-77).
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March 2:
Tony Pittman in his McDowell basketball jersey before transferring to Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He went on to star in football at Penn State, where his father Charles Pittman also played. Together they wrote a book in 2007, “Playing for Paterno.”
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The Olympics are over, Canada has won its gold in hockey, and MSNBC is back to a handful of viewers a night.
So, it’s back to soccer.
The Major League Soccer season is scheduled to begin March 25 in Philadelphia, but a labor dispute is putting the opener in jeopardy.
The league and its players are attempting to negotiate a new contract, which expired Jan. 31. So far, no lockout or strike plans are set, but that doesn’t mean neither will happen.
Would the U.S. World Cup team be hurt if MLS goes dark?
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