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Amaker and Harvard Lose Big Local Catch?
Several sports blogs are reporting that O’Connell center Frank Ben-Eze has rescinded his commitment to play for Tommy Amaker and Harvard.
A lot of attention has come Ben-Eze’s way since a recent New York Times story about the changing state of Crimson basketball under a big-name coach. Ben-Eze would be the big prize of Harvard’s greatest-ever recruiting class.
Amaker, a fabulous high school and college player, hails from Falls Church. He should have attended my high school, Falls Church High, based on his address. Falls Church won four games in a good year.
But Amaker somehow ended up out-of-zone at W.T. Woodson, which, by amazing coincidence, had one of the best basketball programs in Northern Virginia.
I haven’t been able to root for him since.
Topics: Sports, Colleges, Crushed Dreams
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Mar. 11, 2008, at 6:58 am
Northern Region hoops bitterness, you gotta love it! At least FCHS never had to throw out a 5-whitey “Vanilla Thunder” lineup like Woodson did in my era. Our backcourt included a Jewish point guard and our frontcourt featured a Mormon and Greek guy. And we brought a deaf guy off the bench..