Usually, we read about the guys who are being declared ineligible, that a coach has been arrested and charged with a crime, that a team has forfeited games, or the other usual daily fare. . . But more often than not, we tend to forget what high school athletics is all about. Sometimes the stories get written just because they're about good kids, who do good things, for all the right reasons, who don't transfer at the drop of a hat, who stay in school because of the education. Oh, and sometimes, they stay for the basketball too. It's how programs get started, how teams are built, from the inside out, how loyalty is engendered.
All traditions have to start somewhere.
And today's LA Times and Pasadena Star News just happened to coincidentally pick today to write about two players who seem to have stayed at their respective schools for all the right reasons. And yet both stayed, for what seem like all the right reasons. That's right, 800. The Pasadena Star News Prep Sports in an article by staff writer Kevin Chavez featured David Newkirk of Maranatha today. David too had opportunities to go elsewhere.