Basketball
The only professional basketball team in South Central Pennsylvania is the Harrisburg Horizon of the Eastern Basketball Alliance. The Horizon is the five-time champion of the Eastern Basketball Alliance, most recently in 2006.
From 1997 to 2000, the Eastern Basketball Alliance held a Lancaster-based franchise called the Storm. The Lancaster Storm won the league championship in 1999. Other former teams from Lancaster included the Red Roses and the Lightning. Both teams played in the Continental Basketball Association; the Red Roses from 1946 to 1949, and from 1953 to 1955; the Lightning played in Lancaster from 1981-1985.
In 2004, there was an attempt by the American Basketball Association to place a team called the Hershey Nighthawks in the region, but that team was eventually moved to Montgomery County, Maryland. That team is now a member of the Premier Basketball League, known as the Maryland Nighthawks.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)