1PM - Mike White's 10 best WPIAL basketball players of the century; PENGUINS SOLD; BREAKING - Fenway Sports Group sells Penguins to Hoffmann family

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Where did we get this music, Limits? I like this. This is Dustin Grace. Great stuff. Local band? We need a vacation. Yeah, local band. I love that, Bob, don't you? Except I wish the summer was coming. It's coming again. Yeah. Let's listen for a second, Bob. Okay.

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Good voice. I love this song. Here's our traveling plans. Got that homemade beer. I like this, Bob, don't you? Yeah, very good. Gets you in the mood. We needed a little mood setter here right now. That was good. Thank you, Limits. I got you. We needed to pick me up. There was another group that helped us out before called Walk Past. Have you ever heard of them? They're pretty good. Yeah, they're good. Thank you, Limits. Thank you. It's almost as good as the song. Bob's back to doing what he loves and more. Thanks to the Good Feed Store. You like that one, Bob? Do you like that, Horse? Do you like it, Horse? It was just for you. Listen to this. Mike White in the Post Gazette, postgazette.com, has his, what, 10 best basketball players of the 21st century, but he also has a little notebook after that, and under the section called Remembering When, he writes, maybe you know Doran Dickerson these days as a radio personality and one of the co-hosts of the Fan Morning Show, 93.7 The Fan.

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That's where we are, Bob, and you're sitting on Doran's seat. I am, and I feel more athletic as a result. 20 years ago this week, Mike writes, Doran was the Post-Gazette Player of the Year for the Whitfield City League. West Allegheny did just about everything for the Indians that season except sell 50-50 tickets. Listen to this. Bob, are you listening? Doran rushed for 1,429 yards, caught 22 passes for 423 yards, completed three of eight passes, scored 36 touchdowns and intercepted four passes on defense. Incredible. Did you know all that limits? Wrong. You did not know. But one really cool thing when we went to Doran's house about a couple of years ago to watch the cheese and the dolphins play, he brought out a box of all the offer letters that he received when he was in high school for different colleges.

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And we looked at some of them and we're reading like some of the notes. It was really cool. I think Reggie Bush was his tour guide at USC, if I'm not mistaken. How about that? How about that limits, huh? That's pretty sweet. With or without the Heisman that day? Did he carry it around? I don't know. I just don't know how you say no. I mean, of course, you want to play at home in front of friends and family. I get it. But, man, once you go out to USC and see everything happening out there, Bob, would you be tempted? Those are tough choices. If you have those kind of choices, man, I don't know how you, you know. That's a tough one. Good for Pitt to get him. Good for him staying here. Yes, we love Doran, don't we?

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He's very good, and he's a very good golfer. Improving. This is what happens when you get in this line of business. You become a good golfer. Here's your top 10 basketball players. You ready, Bob? Let me guess one. The only one that really stands out to me is Tom Pipkins.

Who are Mike White's top WPIAL basketball players of the century?

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Is he one or two? He wasn't even in the 21st century. He was in the 90s. I covered him for the Valley News Dispatch. Oh, this was this century. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I thought you meant all time. No. I love Tom Pipkins. We used to go to those games and watch him play. I used to cover him. Oh, he's unbelievable. It was great. T.J. McConnell, number one. That's a good one. Still playing in the NBA at a very high level, making tons of money. Mike writes that McConnell had possibly the greatest season of any player in Whitfield history. He, in his senior year, led Char Valley to a Whitfield title, a spot in the Class A state title game. Listen to this, Bob. You ready for this? He averaged 34.2 points, 8.2 rebounds, 9.1 assists, 6.8 steals, and shot 60% from the field.

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And he couldn't get a big-time offer from anyone, ends up going to Duquesne, and then all of a sudden Arizona comes swooping in, Sean Miller takes him, and the journey begins. It's hard to believe that you couldn't get nothing against Duquesne.