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on Jan 22, 2009
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BY KRISTIE ACKERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Sunday, March 3th 2002, 2:25AM
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By Zachary Braziller January 20, 2009
Kadeem Jack was walking through Cambria Heights Park three years ago one spring afternoon when a stranger stopped him. The man, Damien Lesley, asked Jack if he wanted to play basketball for a Catholic school.
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FRIARS SET ARIZONA FOR NEW YORK TIME
By NUNYO DEMASIO
Sunday, March 23th 1997, 2:02AM
BIRMINGHAM The four Friars have known each other since they first started honing their skills on the asphalt of New York. Three played on the same club team. Two lived a five-minute walk from each other in the Coney Island housing projects. But not a single one had a hoop dream so grand as to be on the same team shooting for a national championship.
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WITH PITT, GREER KEEPS 2 PROMISES
By ANTHONY McCARRON
Friday, September 6th 1996, 2:01AM
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December 30, 1996
Look Who's Flying High
Reggie Freeman of Texas and Felipe Lopez of St. John's played together in high school, and one of them was supposed to become a big star. One has, and therein lies a story
It was a New York City article of faith: The young man from the South Bronx, the mid-sized slasher with the elastic body, would go on from Harlem's Rice High to much bigger things. He needed a little work on his outside shot, to be sure, but that's how it is with city kids who go hard to the hole. He so loved the game that no one doubted he'd do the work, that the shot would come.
He did, and it has. He has improved each year and in his first three college seasons never failed to play in the NCAA tournament. This season he was fifth in the nation in scoring at week's end, with an average of 25.3 points a game, and his defense, rebounding and passing had helped carry his 6-2 team to 14th in the AP poll. That all the touts had the wrong guy—that the likely first-team All-America described here isn't 6'6" Felipe Lopez of St. John's but 6'6" Reggie Freeman of Texas—is but a pothole in midtown traffic.
At Rice High, says Longhorns coach Tom Penders, Freeman was "a caddie" for Lopez, the 1994 national high school Player of the Year, even though Freeman was a two-year starter and a year ahead of his more ballyhooed teammate. Today it's Lopez who is looking to Freeman for advice on how to get off a good shot.
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FREEMAN EMERGES INTO A LONE STAR
By LUKE CYPHERS
Friday, March 15th 1996, 1:95AM
MILWAUKEE Two years ago, everyone knew one of the most dangerous shooting guards in this year's NCAA Tournament would be a graduate of New York's Rice High School.
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-11 TEEN TAKES ON FATHERHOOD, FUTURE TROUBLE WITH BEING ERNEST
By ROGER RUBIN
Sunday, March 1th 1998, 2:04AM
Ernest Brown has been one of the biggest puzzles in high school sports the past two years.
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COACH IS GIVING GIRLS OPEN SHOT AT POSITIVE LIFE
BY DENIS HAMILL
Sunday, September 27th 1998, 2:05AM
WALTER WELSH HAS a passion for girls.
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May 9, 1988
Gauchos vs. Russians: Revenge in the Bronx
By SARAH LYALL
The Russians took revenge on the Americans Saturday night in a crowded gymnasium in the heart of the South Bronx.
In a basketball game that pitted the taller and more polished Soviet national junior team against the scrappier and less experienced New York Gauchos, the Russians won by a score of 99 to 80, making up for last year, when they lost, 89 to 86.
The game, in the Highbridge section, was never very close, but the several hundred people who wanted to see how the Soviet team plays got a glimpse of an unerring technical prowess that contrasted with the quick, street-wise style of the Gauchos, youths mostly from Manhattan and the Bronx.
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The Gauchos' Garden
NYC hoop stars hold court in South Bronx gym
Posted: Friday January 12, 2007 2:38PM; Updated: Friday January 12, 2007 2:38PM
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By Kevin Armstrong, SI.com
BRONX, N.Y. -- Across the Harlem River from Rucker Park and 12 blocks south of Yankee Stadium, down a street lined with abandoned warehouses and cash checking stores, the Gauchos Gym stands as the beacon of high school basketball.
Not as modern as the St. Raymond gymnasium 20 minutes away, the facility still thrives amid urban decline, its foundation built upon the reputations that were earned here, a group of legends, including local talent and future pros such as Stephon Marbury, Jamal Mashburn, Rod Strickland, as well as former Sports Illustrated cover boys, Sebastian Telfair, and Felipe Lopez.
