Monday, May 14, 2012
"There really could be something going on here." A Parallel to the 1968-69 Celtics?
One of my Facebook buddies is Erik Anderson, a fellow child of Easton and Oliver Ames High School grad. Erik, a few years younger than me, grew up on Seaver Street and now lives in North Carolina with his wife and children. Erik played hoops at OA, and also did some high school basketball coaching. He loves his roundball. Erik was what you call a basketball gym and playground rat, frequently looking and scouting for a game, a chance to play, for that opportunity to get in a "run" on the court. Actually, he is now into his mid 40s, and he still plays spirited and aggressive pickup basketball, including against kids a couple decades or more younger than him. After Saturday night’s Celts comeback win over the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 1 …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sam Jones Has A History With Easton
My childhood friend was in Boston over the past few days. Many years ago, during summers of the 1970s, when we were kids, we spent many weeks together at Stonehill College at boys’ and girls’ basketball camps. My friend’s name is Wally Ray; he is a distant cousin of NBA Hall of Famer and Boston Celtics great, Sam Jones, who was the co-director of some of those hoops camps at Stonehill all those years ago. My dad was another co-director of those camps. Many Easton kids, Baby Boomers, have fond recollections of Sam Jones and the camps at Stonehill College. I was fortunate to be able to see Wally and Sam yesterday and sit and talk with them. I have written about Sam in this space before; that column can be found here: Sam Jones Wally is …
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Boston Celtics and NBA Great Sam Jones Knows Easton Well
Sunday and Monday nights were good comeuppance nights. Sunday night, Lebron James and the Miami Heat got theirs – and on Monday night, Vancouver Canuck goaltender Robert Luongo got his. My mother would advise that there are lessons to be learned here. In the case of Lebron and the Heat, she would say, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” – and she would also cite and paraphrase Matthew 23:12: “The exalted shall be humbled, and the humble shall be exalted.” As for Mr. Luongo, and his criticism and trashing of the play of Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas? Well, after Luongo offered his rude and unhelpful commentary on Thomas’s play – yet prior to Luongo giving up three goals on eight shots in Game 6 – my mom might have told …
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Frank Melo
5:22 pm on Friday, June 8, 2012
Read "Dynasties End", eerily similar and a good read. At Ames free. more ›