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Amaya Stewart admits she wasn’t the best basketball player around when she first started playing with Reading’s KTB youth organization as a fifth-grader. That’s being kind, says her first KTB coach, Kanisha Edwards. “She was…

Felix Cruz’s dream was to one day see his son Yadiel play basketball at the storied Geigle Complex, the court where future NBA players Donyell Marshall and Lonnie Walker IV once graced. Felix came to the United States more than a…

With little more than a minute to go in Alvernia’s 92-78 win at Albright Saturday afternoon Keba Mitchell found himself alone at midcourt when a long outlet pass arrived. The 6-4 senior gathered it and went in uncontested for a…

By Sean McBryan -- MikeDragoSports.com correspondent Zakiyah Winfield has accomplished a lot on the basketball court: She scored 1,000 points at Wilson and won the 2022 NCAA Division II national championship with Glenville…

Jerry Kapp quickly caught the eye of teammates during practices leading up to Tropical Bowl X last week in Orlando, Fla. Once the game was underway he caught the attention of everyone at Camping World Stadium after making a one-handed…

Who calls a play late in a tight game against a top team to highlight the skills of a freshman? Maybe if that freshman's name is Lonnie Walker IV or Steve Mitchell, it might happen. Or if his name is Kingston McKoy. That was…

It was January 1973 and I found myself sitting on the bench with the Hamburg Bullets in some ancient, ill-lit gym for a weekend Eastern Basketball League game. That's all I remember about the occasion. I was there as the team's…

Marcus Wilson is living out his 'Rudy' football dream. Overshadowed in high school, overlooked at two levels of college football, he continues to pursue his lifelong desire to play professional football. "You see so many stories…

MikeDragoSports.com goes one-on-one with a Berks basketball player to find out what’s on his or her mind — on the court and off. Gerrell McNeil, Gov. Mifflin Senior guard Q: Who has been most influential…

David Bednarczyk began running cross country in junior high mostly to get in shape for basketball, his first love and a sport he's played since he was old enough to hold that orange pumpkin. He found a certain peace in running that…