Basketball Times
BASKETBALL TIMES Visit: www.usbwa.com March 2013 VOLUME 50, NO. 3 Hall of Fame welcomes Bilovsky, Lopresti, Rawlings Frank Bilovsky made his bones in the “I scrolled down … scrolled down … Big Five’s heyday. Mike Lopresti was born scrolled down,” Wieberg says, “until I’d read and raised in Indiana, where he has spent his through it, and then looked at him. ‘Bleep entire professional career. Lenox Rawlings you,’ I said. I couldn’t have written anything grew up in the Tobacco Road neighborhood, half as good if I’d had hours or even days to worked a brief spell elsewhere and returned think it through.” to become a regional icon. It’s hard to imagine anyone saying It’s not a requirement for USBWA Hall “Bleep you” to Rawlings, who retired in of Fame inductees to be rooted in the na- December after 34 years writing sports col- tion’s most fertile hoops soil. But when great umns for the Winston-Salem Journal, where journalism talent lives among great subject his work was must-read material for anyone matter, the resulting body of work winds up remotely interested in the ACC. He previ- a slam dunk for election. ously worked in Raleigh, Greensboro and At age 13 in rural Pennsylvania, Bi- Atlanta. lovsky was smitten by college basketball Frank Bilovsky Mike Lopresti Lenox Rawlings A graduate of North Carolina, Rawlings when Lebanon Valley College from nearby never played favorites as he wrote about Annville was invited to the 1953 NCAA tournament. The ism start at his hometown newspaper, the Palladium-Item, some of college ball’s hottest rivalries, and he never shied Flying Dutchmen defeated Fordham before falling to Bob while a high school student in Richmond, Ind., where he still from criticizing whoever and whatever deserved rebuke.
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