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As holiday shoppers were navigating for that perfect parking space, local boys and girls high school hoops teams were on the hardwood courts Tuesday. It is certainly an unsettling time for these young student-athletes, as they observe major league sports pausing games. Many of these high school players remember their older classmates competing in empty gyms, while others didn't play at all. Memories that we'd all like to forget. On Tuesday, it was great opportunity to get out there and enjoy some holiday season hoops.

Tamarac High School boys basketball coach Eric Medved ran an 18 game weekend basketball tournament like he coaches, to win. Medved got his win this weekend, on the court and off. The Tamarac coach's weekend effort, besides two basketball games for his team, was running a Coaches vs. Cancer high school tournament at Hudson Valley Community College. How did it go? Well, we'll get to the basketball in a second but the tournament raised over $10,785 so far!

Wednesday on The Drive with Charlie & Dan, we had the pleasure of hanging out with the Tamarac High School boys basketball coach, Eric Medved, the organizer of this weekend's tournament. Yes, we talked about Tamarac getting off to a 3-0 start and how great the kids on his team are but this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, mean way more to Coach Medved than a couple of basketball games.

There are currently 3 players in Major League Baseball with Albany area ties.  Two of them played for Section II high schools while another went to a local college. Here's an update on each with about a month left in the regular season.

Congrats to Saratoga's Tim Stauffer and Schenectady's Casper Wells.  Both Capital Region natives are on Major League Baseball rosters for the 2011 season.

Schenectady native Mark Lyons struggled, and so did his Xavier teammates -  as the Musketeers lost to Marquette on Friday night, 66-55.

Brian Sinkoff was joined on "Sound-off with Sinkoff" Tuesday (3/15/11) by Xavier guard and Schenectady native Mark Lyons.

Brian Sinkoff was joined on the show Thursday (1/27/11) by Schenectady boys basketball head coach Eric Loudis for the High School Section II Showcase.