Welcome to CENTAUR (OFF) SEASONS! If you’re a regular CENTAUR SEASONS reader here on HOOPSU.COM (thanks for coming back!) or you just dribbled onto the site for the first time (welcome aboard!), herewith for the summer break are a dozen different mix-and-match ways to access nearly all of the 97 CENTAUR SEASONS posts written during Season I.
New and original posts for CENTAUR SEASONS’ Year II will tip off in the fall. I look forward to seeing you then. But, please, don’t go away now:
THE TRIANGLE AND ONE: The Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales of this CENTAUR SEASONS blog was a brand new place in the late-’60s/early-’70s, making itself up as it went along. These four posts — a long bus ride (the triangle); sleeping in the gym during Christmas break (and one) — illustrate best the “singular sensation” and the “inadvertent education” offered by this tiny little Center Valley, Pennsylvania, school of those long-past days
EVERY CENTAUR-CENTRIC POST, IN ORDER: So you can read from the beginning …
ME, CENTAUR: My Tall (not to mention skinny) Tale
“CENTAUR SEASONS POSTS UP ON D3HOOPS” and HOOPSU.COM: Executive Editor Pat Coleman of the all-everything website for all things at the NCAA Division III level invited Centaur Seasons to take it’s best shot, and at HoopsU.com owner and founder Tony Alfonso has had Centaur Seasons in the starting line-up all year.
YA GOTTA START SOMEWHERE: Well, yeah. But these Original Centaurs, they started from nowhere…
“CENTAURUS AGONISTES”: Legends and Myths of the First Rivalry — A triumph in two acts and six scenes …
“SECRETS OF THE CENTAUR,” or, “FROM NOTHING, SOMETHING”: How (and why) at a brand-new college with so little to offer there was still so much to do
EVERY SEASON TELLS A STORY: Centaur Seasons began forty years ago when I kept a diary of my 1972-1973 junior season. Here it is, game by game and nearly word for word (and get a load of the insufferable English Major title, complete with misspelling!) …
TRIPLE THREAT: The legendary Centaur, the reason I’m a Centaur, the Centaur who coached me …
TO EVERY CENTAUR, A SEASON: There was little glory and fewer fans, but these guys (and eventually some girls) played anyway …
OFF COURT. ON CAMPUS: Remembering the Unforgettable
CENTAUR ROUND-UP: Columnist David Brooks, John Wooden, D3Hoops.com, HoopsU.com, the Rutgers scandal, a ‘CS’ reading in NYC, a look into the future, the US-USSR 1972 Olympic hoops final, plus A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” — It’s all corralled here
- CENTAUR SEASONS: A new Inductee to the DeSales University Hall of Fame recognizes the contributions of the school’s orginal athletes … - September 18, 2013
- CENTAUR (OFF) SEASONS: A dozen ways to read the 97 posts in the scorebook thus far — until a new roster begins taking the floor in the fall - June 13, 2013
- CENTAUR SEASONS: In a ‘Carnival of Opportunity,’ One of Our Own Shines in an All-Star Game - May 14, 2013
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