Tony Zonca

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor If memory serves correct -- not a given these days -- it was the mid-1970s when somebody in the sports department of the Reading Eagle came up with an idea meant to improve…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor Devoted sports fans likely will remember sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos issuing a Black Power salute on the medal stand at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. …

By  Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor Recently we commemorated the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King's history-making "I Had a Dream" speech. The iconic event took place 60 years ago and was…

By  Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor As a kid I remember listening to boxing on our trusty Philco radio, the blow-by-blow guy by the name of Bill Stern. Boxing was big back then, behind only big league…

By  Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor I have always hated the display of The Wave at ballgames.  I especially hated the practice during close, late-inning games with tension and playoff implications in the air. …

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor Players such as Ruben Rodriguez and Lonnie Walker IV usually emerge about once a generation. If this were meant to be a review of the last seven basketball seasons…

By  Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor The current group of Red Knights became just the second big-school team to capture three straight District 3 basketball championships. The first? Coach Bill…

By  Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor Before Lonnie Walker IV became a basketball icon for Reading High, before he began setting scoring records and establishing himself as the best player in the state, he was…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor Before NCAA national championship playoffs, before ESPN, before College Gameday and two jillion bowl games that nobody watches, the must-see football attraction was the annual…

(This story was first publish in August, shortly after Pete Carril's death.) By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor When it was announced Monday that the legendary Pete Carril had died at age 92, we lost more…