Sha Rene' & Cecil Mosenson speak at Barnes & Noble Aug 21.08

"Love and Basketball" by Elaine Stevenson

Barnes and Noble Book signing Event is a slam dunk!!! There are times when you meet someone and have things in common and its another to meet someone who influenced how we feel about a period of time when you could turn on the TV and see "Wilt the Stilt" Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson and Lew Alcindor. Yesterday was a magical day in many ways and through life we remember those times. Cecil Mosensen a man with great character helped not only with the sport s world experience a vision of greatness with his valor for coaching the greatest basketball player of all time but it denotes an era of when we respected and looked up to our sports players. Sha Rene' poetess and author of the book, "Words Can Explain" shares her story to Cecil of when her dad who used to build console TV sets with a picture tube has all of his children, Sha and her 3 brothers sit and watch Cecil's work in Wilt Chamberlain. Sha shares her personal story with him of the sports "Name Game" a game where one player would note the team or a last name and the other would have to then say the first. It was a sports Trivia game that Sha and her brothers made up in the 70's. Her brothers would yell out Oscar and Sha would say "Robertson!" Buy Cecil's book , "It all began with WILT" and Sha Rene's inspirational poetry book, "Words Can Explain" at Barnes and Noble. Sha began with a poem called "Namesake" that talks about pickin' cotton in the south. As she sits next to Cecil she is happy to know that even then there were souls around like Cecil who saw talent and it didn't matter who you are or from where you came. Coach Cecil talked about how he continued to helps Black students finish school. Cecil and Sha are part of Philadelphia area's best part of telling the young, "They can be anything they want to be!"

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