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Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Kent Lockhart, Danny McCalister, LenRay McCalister
LenRay McCalister has died, age 49. His brother Stanley was my teammate for Gunn basketball, and his oldest brother Danny McCalister was a star of the Gunn Titans first championship basketball team, 22-5 in 1979-1980. There were six McCalister brothers … Continue reading
Posted in Plato's Republic, sports
Tagged danny mccalister, earl hanson, gunn titans, hans delannoy, kent lockhart, lenray mccalister, paly vikings, ted williams, willie mays
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Cubberley Basketball Hall of Fame and honorable mentions, in Plastic Alto
Cubberley basketball hall of fameas accorded by Plastic Alto, Earthwise Productions and The Titensity Spin On Your Finger Machine Doctors First team:Forward Mike Nichols 1959Forward Rick Kuhta 1964Center Paul Trainer 1971Guard Ray Gale 1962Guard Todd Walker 1974 Second teamForward Wylie … Continue reading
Jim Eshelman pole vault for Stanford, 1966
He was also a Cubberley grad. I’d nominate him for the Cubberley Hall of Fame (talk to Dan Fowlkes, Bret Baird or Hans Delannoy). But going forward, with our tax dollars from COPA and PAUSD using the site for cultural … Continue reading
Cormac Ryan, KZ Okpala, Ugonna Onkeywe, Kent Lockhart, Marvin Gaye, Marlinda Fitzgerald, Hans Delannoy, Mick Jagger, Jared Goff, Todd Gurley, Tom Brady, Lynn Swann, Barry Bonds, Pete Broberg, Dr. J and me
Dear (Friend of mine, former Sports Editor of The D, Sports Ilustrated Summer Reporter, UPI baseball stats desk jockey, of counsel to Office of Commish and basketball nut): (Re Cormac Ryan, Stanford’s new #23, from Milton Academy and Collegiate of … Continue reading
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Tagged cormac ryan, hans delannoy, jared goff, kent lockhart, kz okpala, marlinda fitzgerald, marvin gaye, Todd Gurley
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A classmate’s tribute to one of this area’s all-time greats: Charles ‘C.J.’ Johnson, of Sequoia High, Cal and the world champion Golden State Warriors
By Mark Meltzer: I was a classmate of CJ’s from elementary school (Washington School) all the way through UC Berkeley. In elementary school he was just known as Charley, CJ was to come later. We weren’t close friends but I … Continue reading
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Tagged charles cj johnson, golden state warriors, hans delannoy, phil smith
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That was me wearing Kent Lockhart’s 1981 Gunn basketball jersey on the treadmill at Palo Alto Y, in January, 2016, for about 15 minutes
Hans Delannoy, approaching 500 career wins, coaching boys and girls in Palo Alto and San Ramon / Danville / Dublin, called and asked me to research the exact number of those came in 1973, at Cubberley. I went to Steve … Continue reading
Posted in media, Plato's Republic, sex, Uncategorized
Tagged hans delannoy, kent lockhart, Steve Staiger
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The tough, the strong
For certain members of the Gunn student body and community, the pulse must quicken with anticipation this week and perhaps for the next 12 days, a rarified situation created by Gunn’s selection to the Central Coast Section basketball tournament. The … Continue reading
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Tagged alex dersh, alex gil-fernandez, benjamin whorf, bill bradley, brandynn williams, cameron lee, chuck hildebrand, david clay large, david shields, don delillo, ellery queen, ernest hemingway, george packer, gunn basketball, gunn oracle, hal riney, hans delannoy, harry hillman, Hopi, james diego vigil, jeffrey lee-heidenreich, jerry chang, john mcphee, john reid, kent lockhart, king james bible, lawson robertson, LiAngelo Ball, louis l'amour, matt passell, peter diepenbrock, stacy keach, tim sun, tommy jordan, victor frost, wallace stegner, white noise
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Colin Bonini for Governor (of Delaware, a small state back east)
I tried to place this comment on a news site, but could not: I am not on Facebook, I am a refuse-nik, so was not actually able to post this: I think Colin Bonini has a core value system about … Continue reading
Posted in media, Plato's Republic
Tagged beau biden, colin bonini, delaware, george packer, hans delannoy, jim harbaugh, jonathan starkey
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The Mullin Show w. Al Palo Alto
The mullin show w. al palo alto The Mullin Show is Paly Vikings, 15-3, who have to win out against three tough teams and especially at Fremont Friday, Feb. 20 to take or tie for SCVAL De Anza League and … Continue reading
Taking charge with Rich Kelley
Rich Kelley, a Woodside resident and former NBA and Stanford basketball player, said he would not endorse me but agreed to pose still for a selfie, the au courant exchange. It helped that I name dropped Bud Presley and made … Continue reading
Posted in media, Plato's Republic
Tagged gunn titans, hans delannoy, nick peterson, rich kelley
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