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I know that many things can change in a year, especially with teenagers, but the above does not give me high hopes that he will be a Buckeye and we do need a couple "bigs" in that class.
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01-16-2008, 02:32 PM
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It will be a roller coaster until decision day.........
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01-20-2008, 09:51 AM
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Hoopfest | Franklin staring at a tough cover
By Tom Wyrwich
Seattle Times staff reporter
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King Holiday Hoopfest
Monday at Edmundson Pavilion (tickets, $10) 9:30 a.m.: Garfield vs. Issaquah girls
11 a.m.: Bothell vs. Gig Harbor boys
12:30 p.m.: Kentwood vs. Jackson girls
2:30 p.m.: Kentwood vs. Bellarmine Prep boys
4 p.m.: Franklin vs. Fairfax (Los Angeles) boys
6 p.m.: O'Dea vs. Lynden
7:30 p.m. Federal Way vs. Garfield boys
Franklin coach Jason Kerr and his staff spent hours Saturday watching tape of Renardo Sidney, hoping to conjure some way the Quakers can defend the country's top-ranked junior.
Yet the mesmerizing reality was this: Sidney can not only post up anyone, rebound, pass and run the floor, he can also sink feather-soft three-pointers with ease.
"And he's 6-foot-10, to boot," Kerr said. "We're running in circles just figuring out what we're going to do to make it hard on him."
Sidney and Fairfax of Los Angeles will play Franklin in a boys basketball game at 4 p.m. Monday in the fifth of the King Holiday Hoopfest's seven games at Edmundson Pavilion.
Sidney's size will be only one issue for Franklin, which doesn't have a starter taller than 6-4. Sidney's versatility is what has separated him from the rest of the nation's juniors. Rivals.com ranks Sidney first in the Class of 2009.
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02-07-2008, 08:57 AM
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Sidney scored 36 points and grabbed 19 rebounds in a win.
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02-10-2008, 08:37 AM
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I spoke to Fairfax High junior power forward Renardo Sidney before UCLA played Arizona State on Thursday. He said UCLA still has not offered him, but he is hopeful the offers start coming in after the season.
"I really like UCLA," Sidney said. "I like their academic program. I like their basketball program. But I'm going to weigh my options."
Sidney said his list consists of UCLA, USC, Arizona, Arizona State, Alabama, UAB, Tennessee, Texas and Florida.
"Academics is the most important thing,'' Sidney said. "I want to go to a school where they're going to help me with my academics as much as basketball."
Sidney said the style he wants to play is "fast-paced. I've been playing that since I was in seventh grade with my AAU team, and I don't want to change now."
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02-10-2008, 08:38 AM
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Commentary: Westchester's team downs 1-man show
By John Klima, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 02/09/2008 03:01:37 AM PST
We sometimes forget that basketball is supposed to be a team game, but when you have your own documentary filmmaker getting close enough to smell the sweat dripping off a player's shorts, you know something is amiss.
It's probably not a good idea to use the word "amiss" when you talk about a basketball player, though it's better than using brick.
These are words not often associated with Westchester's basketball program, but after a regular season in which losses to Taft and Fairfax (again) threw its control of L.A. City Section basketball further into question, Westchester turned in a performance Wednesday night in a 71-70 double-overtime victory over Fairfax that was one for its video archives, if not those of Fairfax junior center Renardo Sidney, whose personal cameraman follows him conspicuously. Sidney has entered the realm of handlers and hustlers. He's not a high school player, but a prospect on loan, performing here as a perfunctory measure, while he is groomed to be somebody's meal ticket. Appearance counts more than effort, and all you had to do was watch him saunter up and down an NBA-sized court Wednesday night to realize that quick guards at the next level will drive circles around this ice-cream truck if he doesn't learn how to run.
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Sidney still scored 25 points and had 10 rebounds. He still almost beat Westchester. But for one night at least, Westchester's team game defeated the one-man show, and that counts for more than one when your confidence is compromised by show business instead of showing up for business.
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