Not long after Oswego’s memorable boys basketball season came to an end with a 61-60 loss to West Aurora at the Class 4A Bolingbrook Sectional in March, reality was setting in for the Panthers.
North Chicago, Waukegan, Round Lake, Antioch and New Trier participated in a round-robin competition that honored the memory of one of this area’s legendary referees.
06/17/2013, 2:30pm CDT, By Rick Armstrong rarmstrong@stmedianetwork.com
Youth will be served on the basketball court this winter on the west side of Aurora, where the Blackhawks lost five of their top seven players to graduation.
The moment was enough to hot wire the pulse of any Chicago high school basketball junkie. In the third game of the just launched Nike-backed Chi-League Pro-Am at Young on Saturday, Jabari Parker delivered a perfect pass to a trailing Cliff Alexander.
06/13/2013, 10:00pm CDT, By Michael O'Brien mobrien@suntimes.com
The Chicago Public has realigned the boys basketball conferences for the 2013-14 season. There is a new White conference and the signature Red conference has been trimmed from ten teams to six.
While everybody associated with Waukegan basketball wants to play fast, the program is really playing a waiting game right now, waiting for the official announcement of who’s being brought in to replace the departed Ron Ashlaw.
Ronnie Fields, a name all basketball fans in the area are familiar with from the superstar’s days at Farragut in the mid-1990s, will also be part of Malnati's coaching staff.
06/13/2013, 12:45pm CDT, By George M. Wilcox gwilcox@pioneerlocal.com
Veteran Oak Park-River Forest coach Matt Maloney recently shared some basketball knowledge with Stevenson coach Pat Ambrose, who led the Patriots to a runner-up finish in Class 4A in March.