Womhoops Guru

Mel Greenberg covered college and professional women’s basketball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 40 plus years. Greenberg pioneered national coverage of the game, including the original Top 25 women's college poll. His knowledge has earned him nicknames such as "The Guru" and "The Godfather," as well as induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Big Five Hall of Fame Notes

By Mel Greenberg

PHILADELPHIA _ Your Guru was at the Big Five Hall of Fame induction ceremonies Thursday night to cover for print the event honoring former Penn star Diana Caramanico and former La Salle star Jen Zenszer, as well as John McAdams, the famed public addressed announcer who passed away in June 2005.

That story is at Philly.com where Jonathan also might have a thing or two at his own blog site in that platform.

Since your Guru managed to leave his ipod in the car, which has a better-sounding tape, and it its quite cold outside, we will come back early Friday afternoon with additional comments from acceptance speeches, although not all in their entirety.

Zenszer, now an FBI agent, and Carmanico were teammates at age 11 and years afterwards for the AAU Fencor team, then were opposing players in high school and college.

It was also the first time that a Big Five men’s player was not inducted in a given year.

Local sportscaster Don Tollefson emceed the ceremonies.

-- Mel

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