Before this college basketball season started, most had North Carolina State in the middle of the pack. If everything broke right, including the continued offensive development of star defensive center Manny Bates, a fourth-place finish would be realistic. So, of course, less than one minute into the first game of the season, Bates injures his [...]
When I was a kid, the Gil Hodges cards I had from his Mets managerial days showed a guy who looked like an old man. When he died in 1972, he was two days shy of his 48th birthday. My current age is past Hodges when he untimely passed away. Yet, when viewing those 1968-72 [...]