Coach Mike Corey remembered as he retired - Addison Independent addisonindependent.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from addisonindependent.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published April 09. 2021 7:17AM
Bill Stanley, Special to The Times
While baseball and football remain my favorite sports, there is no better sporting event overall than the college basketball playoffs known as March Madness.
Yes, the Super Bowl has become big enough for some to suggest that Americans have the next day off as a national holiday, but after several hours, the game is over, and it rarely lives up to its hype. Baseball’s World Series like its regular-season and playoff games has become a tiresome battle of wills between managers. Starting pitchers often don’t last into the fifth inning, no matter how well they pitch, and batters who hit hard smashes to either side of the infield are often retired harmlessly by the increasing use of defensive shifts. At this rate, that sport considered America’s national pastime will continue to lose fan support.
CENTRAL SQUARE â Katie Hart has unknowingly been pushing Julia Mann to reach her loftiest goal for more than seven years.
Mann became the all-time leading scorer in Central Square varsity girls and boys basketball history by surpassing Hartâs previous record of 1,378 points during a victory on Feb. 27 at Oswego High School.
Mann, the Redhawks senior and fifth-year varsity guard, entered this week with more than 1,400 career points.
For Mann, the achievement marked the culmination of a mission she established after going to a varsity girls basketball game in fifth grade and being mesmerized by the balls in the trophy case at Paul V. Moore High School, zoning in on one that read: Katie Hart, 1,378.