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Xavier Davis does his best work in, and around, the paint. On the basketball court he has often been, at 6-2, undersized playing center for Reading High. He regularly goes against basketball players four, six, even eight inches…

Next week, when basketball teams across the Commonwealth clinch a trip to the state championship game fans will inevitably throw Hershey Kisses into the air. It's become a rite of passage, a way to celebrate a trip to Hershey, where…

By Tony Zonca -- MikeDragoSports.com senior contributor In the classic feel-good movie "Field of Dreams," Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, has an epiphany.  He is distracted by a voice in his head that repeats:…

Snip Esterly heads to Hershey Thursday to coach in a district championship game for the 18th time, but he'll approach it as if it was the first. He has a dozen District 3 gold medals hanging in his den; 14 if you count those he won…

By Jason Guarente -- MikeDragoSports.com senior correspondent Where Moro Osumanu’s final game ranks among Reading High’s greatest performances could be debated forever. Is it the best? The most consequential? It’s somewhere in the…

Troy Godinet remembers the first time he was benched. He was playing football for the Northwest Athletic Association and he kept lining up offsides. His coach, John Misch, sat him. Two decades later the lesson resonates. "The…

By Jason Guarente -- MikeDragoSports.com senior correspondent MILLERSVILLE — Even as the milestone came into view, Lauren Lister didn’t waste any energy crunching the numbers. She didn’t want to know how close she was to 2,000. She…

Ruben Rodriguez didn't think he was all that good a basketball player in junior high. Sure, he dropped a bunch of points, 30 at a time, but it didn't resonate with him. He didn't see the big picture. Didn't realize there would be…

It generally takes a few seasons for an incoming coach to change the culture within a program. Matt Flowers did it practically overnight. He inherited a Muhlenberg program that built its success on 3-point shooting and a…

By Jason Guarente -- MikeDragoSports.com senior correspondent Elisa Fiore doesn’t know what happened to the other gold medals. They’re not lost. They’re tucked away somewhere in her house. Gov. Mifflin’s senior never worried…