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Zakiyah Winfield never imagined she'd win a national championship or earn All-American honors when she left Wilson four years ago. She was simply looking for a place to keep playing basketball; it turns out destiny awaited her in a…

After a junior season in which he did everything well, Reading High's Ruben Rodriguez has only one goal in mind for the offseason: To get stronger and better. "I feel can improve on everything," Rodriguez said after a season which…

Caroline Reedy was the ultimate team player for Berks Catholic. She passed up far more shots than she ever took. She was more concerned with finding open teammates, grabbing rebounds, fulfilling her defensive assignment -- and…

Snip Esterly's first home game as a professional basketball coach was a little different, to say the least. It was easily the longest game he had ever coached -- 48 minutes of regulation, plus two five-minute overtimes, nearly the…

Adonis Fleming played for the Berks Conference basketball championship at Santander Arena when he was a junior at Central Catholic. A dozen years later he found himself back on the same court in a championship game, this time as an…

Here are 20 significant numbers to remember from the 2021-22 Berks boys basketball season: .000002 That was the difference in power rating between Exeter (.634204) and Gov. Mifflin (.634206) at the end of the regular season.…

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…