6-12-05 I was wondering why Top 10-in-the-nation rising senior 6-9 220 forward Vernon “Big Ticket” Macklin of Portmouth, Virginia I. C. Norcom High School, and outstanding rising senior combination 6-3 guard Stefan Welsh of two-time Group AAA basketball state champion Woodside High of Newport News, Virginia would both “break the mold” and head to Hargrave [...]
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future Villanova star Scottie Reynolds of Herndon High
5-07-05 As I mention, scout, and concentrate mostly on 9th, 10th, and 11th-grade boys high school football and basketball players in the state of Virginia, I went to the campus of the University of Virginia on Friday, May 6, 2005, to see the “Southern Invitational Tournament,” a large Amateur Athletic Union boys basketball tournament for [...]
Read More »Class of 2006 Vernon Macklin of I.C. Norcum High School
1-10-04 I went to see Vernon Macklin play today, on a sunny but 10-degree, frigid day at modern-looking Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. Macklin’s nickname is “Big Ticket,” the same nickname that NBA star Kevin Garnett has, because Macklin resembles Garnett physically at the same age, that of a sophomore in high school. [...]
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