Tag Archives: kent lockhart

A Call for ‘Kurt Cobain Plaza’

Posted on June 10, 2019 by markweiss86

Ok, I admit it was I who under a nom de plume posted an attack on the effort to re-name Lytton Plaza for a then recently deceased prominent Palo Alto clan figurehead and namesake. I spoofed the idea by posting … Continue reading →

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Luciana Souza, John Salley

Posted on February 23, 2019 by markweiss86
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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

Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86

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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Winks

Posted on January 20, 2019 by markweiss86

  If you follow soccer there is a hero for Tottenham today named Harry Winks. He scored the winning goal to 2-1 over Fulham. Long cross in extra stoppage time like minute 92 or 93. I took five photos here: … Continue reading →

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Lockhart re ducks

Posted on October 5, 2018 by markweiss86

My high school teammate Kent Lockhart was a 4th round draft pick out of Don Haskins’ UTEP for the New York Knicks but broke his arm and was cut. In 1988 he was MVP of the San Francisco Summer Pro … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on August 15, 2016 by markweiss86

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 →

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The tough, the strong

Posted on February 22, 2016 by markweiss86

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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Gunn angle on two local sports milestones

Posted on December 4, 2015 by markweiss86

The long and the short of it is that the Weekly had two sports stories yesterday in which I felt the Gunn context had been unjustly omitted and here in Plastic Alto, I seek the cure. First came news that … Continue reading →

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CJ, Coach, Rambis and me, no kidding: honorable mentions of all time Bay Area and Palo Alto prep hoops legends

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Hans Delannoy and I it seems like just yesterday — March 25, 2015 — were discussing an all time Palo Alto All City team, maybe five groups of five or 25 deep, and maybe a top 20 all Gunn team … Continue reading →

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I shot 450 photos at 22 high school basketball games this season

Posted on March 4, 2015 by markweiss86

and1: this one is on my camera/ phone but shot by I think former Coach Redfield, and shows me in front of the exact basket where 30 years or so prior, in 1981, my junior year at Gunn I scored … Continue reading →

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