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.

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Guru Day 15 Fri Post Hip Surgery Report: Eventful Days Elsewhere, Continue Progress Here

 Guru Day Day 15 Fri Post Hip-Surgery Report.


Before continuing on a night the WNBA opens and learning the great football player Jim Brown passed away, would like to acknowledge the word 24 hours earlier of the passing  of 72-year-old Ted Silary, the great chronicler at the Bulletin, the Daily News and then building his own web site —an enormous encyclopedia of Philadelphia High School Sports. 


Years ago the great Villanova wbb coach Harry Perretta in a speech quoted someone saying, “You may not know how many lives your life may truly impact.”


Ted never worked because what he did was pure love and in his case that function impacted numbers in the quantum register. 


He will be missed greatly and if you didnt know him besides the many that did please read all the tributes out there and stories to get a full appreciation.


As for how the Guru day went once emerged and dressed,  it began late afternoon with another walker hike up the one-block lenth of the apartment building in Plymouth Meeting and then     back down.


Next climbed onto weeklong guest Willbill’s rental to check out Saturday’s sites of two softball games played in Miles Park by great niece Alex and later in Cedar Grove by great niece Jayda for potential attending possibilities.


Then guided Will, a longtime photographer in Pat Summitt’s program at Tennessee on a jaunt first revealing he was driving on the main drag of UConn wbb coach Geno Auriemma’s formative years in Norristown.


Then past King of Prussia mall to a brief tour of Valley Forge Park and on thru the Main Line towns along Lancaster Ave. unknowingly reaching Villanova just as graduation exercise had ended at the football stadium.

 

It was now dinnertime so off to Blue Bell and another Guru go-to at Phil’s Tavern then back here.


A shot from Phil’s was on twitter. 


That’s it at the moment - Guru


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