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RealClearSports: Little St. Mary's Finds a Sweet Spot
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
MORAGA, Calif. -- To get to Saint Mary's College, you need a GPS and a lot of luck. It's due east of Oakland down a winding road through a canyon of redwood trees that are maybe a bit taller than Omar Samhan.
He's the 6-foot-11 center on a basketball team from a program with a great deal of history but beyond California receives almost no recognition. As for Moraga, it's a bedroom community named after Joaquin Moraga, the rancher deeded the area in 1835 by the government of Mexico.
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© RealClearSports 2010
For RealClearSports.com
MORAGA, Calif. -- To get to Saint Mary's College, you need a GPS and a lot of luck. It's due east of Oakland down a winding road through a canyon of redwood trees that are maybe a bit taller than Omar Samhan.
He's the 6-foot-11 center on a basketball team from a program with a great deal of history but beyond California receives almost no recognition. As for Moraga, it's a bedroom community named after Joaquin Moraga, the rancher deeded the area in 1835 by the government of Mexico.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2010
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