Will Allen is Author, McArthur Fellow, NPR Guest

Former Richard Montgomery H.S. star Will Allen, whose Milwaukee and Chicago farms feed 10,000, guests on NPR’s “The Splendid Table”. Allen was a three-time All-Met, and first Black player at U. Miami.

http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/listings/120505/

His new book is called “The Good Food Revolution”.

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DC Basketball Founder to Guest on WHUR Sports Insider Radio Show

Please listen in to hear Penn Greene on WHUR’s “Sports Insider” with host Ricky Clemons, on WHUR Voices Sirius XM 141 hurvoices.com

Broadcast Time: Saturdays 3p.m. – Replayed  – Monday 2:30p.m.  and Wednesday 7:30a.m.

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Mrs. Armstrong Dies

DC Basketball notes the ascendence of Mrs. Annie C. Armstrong, mother of a childhood friend, and wife of prominent high school basketball coach the late McKinley Armstrong. Her daughters participated in the sport at St. Anthony’s School.

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Get Your Tickets For the May 5 Hall of Fame Awards Dinner

Come join and meet us at the Capital Hilton on Saturday, May 5, when we honor Lenny Bias, Earl Lloyd, Stu Vetter and others:

http://www.dcbasketball.com/

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Remembering Tony Coles

Former St. Albans guard Tony Coles died.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=anthony-coles&pid=156505280
 
T.C. was a lively little guard at St. Albans when they cracked the Washington Post  high school Top 20 in the mid-1970′s, and knocked off teams such as Western, Anacostia, Good Counsel, and Chamberlain. Unfortunately, cancer had ravaged TC’s entire body, and in his final days, his teammate Mike Gross, took care of T.C.

As small as T.C. was, my lasting memories are of how easily he could dunk.

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Capital Heights: The DC Area’s Great Leapers

2012 is a leap year, and a fitting time to pay tribute again to the area’s greatest high risers, in a rerun of a past post:

http://dcbasketball.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/dc-high-rise/

New Yorkers proudly speak of their great leapers such as Earl Manigault, “Jumpin’” Jackie Jackson, and Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Washington does have a height ordinance that limits the height of our buildings to twelve stories, but has had no limit of high rising basketball players. Here’s a partial list:

Elgin “Rabbit” Baylor

William “Chicken Breast” Lee

Terry Hatchett

Julius “Peter Rabbit” Johnson

Lionel “Hop” Dempsey

Bobby Lewis

“Leapin’” Lou West

Willie Allen

Matthew Gantt

Earl Hawkins

James Brown

Leslie “High Rise” Anderson

Lamont Reid

Tony Coles

James Roche

Garcia Hopkins

Derek Whittenburg

Johnny Dawkins

Lenny Bias

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Elgin Baylor Tops SLAM List of 12 Best NBA Seasons

In a new article on the 12 best individual NBA seasons of all time, Spingarn and Phelps High Schools’ Elgin Baylor reigns:

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2012/03/the-12-greatest-individual-nba-seasons/

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