The piece on Jonathan Graham was good. I have been up on him through a Baltimore Sports site. He appears to be the realest.

As a Freshman at G’town in 1980, I watched Ernie Graham dominate in the Metro DC summer leagues, where he was catching routinely 40 and sometimes 50+ points in games. So, I watched with bated interest his UMaryland squad featuring: Buck Williams, Fort. Hamilton’s Al King, Philly’s Reggie Jackson and I believe Dutch Morley. They were great, excepting the two times we gave it to them. Once, in the now defunct capital college classic, which pitted the top four area teams against each other, in a tournament. That year it was Maryland, Gw, American with Russell Boo Bowers of Philly who is the father of WNBA player Tamecka Dixon and Gtown. We beat them by 12 pts. but they cried because Buck was hurt and did not play. So, cool we get them in the NCAA East Great Eight and give them another 12 piece, with Buck. Sleepy was killing them and in both games the “only” Maryland player to step up was my man Ernie Graham. That is why I have reverence for him, he was straight gangster with his.

curt “trouble” smith definitely needs some shine. i think a feature on him might be a good look for the mag.

and earnie graham? that was one bad man at b-more’s lake clifton HS and the university of maryland. still holds the terps record for most points scored in a game.

me and mr. graham are cool. did a piece on his son, jonathan, last season. jon plays for calvert hall in b-more, same school that produced juan dixon and duane ferrell. kid is 6′8″ with a nice game. maryland, villanova and a bunch of schools are after him.

you can peep the piece here –

http://www.digitalsports.com/article/type/organization/typeid/3807/id/18710.aspx

definitely have to show some love to mr. ernie graham.

I feel you, on no love for Notre Dame, as a rooting interest. It must be their tagline ” the Fighting Irish”. It did not connect with me.

But like you, I felt AD, Duck Williams, Shumate, Austin Carr and O Woolridge. However, during those years I maintained an affinity for Marquette and later DePaul.

Speaking of Jersey, do not forget Linden’s finest Waliyy Dixon AKA Main Event, Metuchen’s Jason Williams of Duke fame and Dahntay Jones of Trenton and recent of the Denver Nuggets, Kelly Tripucka and Mike O’Koren, too.

If you are marinating on Sherm Douglas, then Curt Smith and my man Earnest Graham of Baltimore, who held it down in the Metro DC area, circa late 70’s and early 80’s, deserve some mention, as well.