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    1. [ILWILLIA] Tamms State Champs
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    3. Jerry Mullins' postcards from Egypt got me to thinking about stories and histories that these could illustrate. That got me to thinking about stories from Egypt. Does anybody remember, 40 or so years ago, when Tamms High School won the Illinois state basketball championship? Altho I live in Lexington and am a student at U of Kentucky, I detest basketball. They ram it down your throat here. They eat up Spike Lee movies about basketball. This sort of fanaticism exists in Indiana, North Carolina, and on and on. Well, there can’t be a better basketball story than Tamms HS beating the best teams from Chicago, East St Louis and the rest of Illinois. Chicago had a larger population back then than most of these “basketball” states have now. And how big was Tamms, Illinois? The number I recall is 300, but I forgot whether that was the total population or the school enrollment. Some of those people must still be kicking. I’d like for them to get some mass attention, and maybe draw some away from Kentucky. So it’s not Williamson County. It was only all over the news there. Bruce Wms.

    04/24/2000 06:29:29