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A Giant Who Limps Or…Can a Coxswain Ever Win MVP?
One of the first stories published on Cliff’s ‘Corner’ (recently renamed Nub’s Nuggets) - featured Patrick O’Rourke – a Seattle-based Irishman - who is one of the legendary soccer minds in local, youth and global markets of the world. He walks with a limp - from a knee replacement he is still rehabilitating. Our current ‘subject’ - DWIGHT GEORGE “DUEY” PHILLIPS – also walks with a limp! But, for ‘Duey’ it was not the usual wear and tear that led to his ‘limp’!
Cliff McCrath
Mar 58 min read
Anson Dorrance and the 69th Annual NSCAA Honor Award
Every now and then it happens that human beings are privileged to live on the same planet as a superhuman – possibly an extraterrestrial man
Cliff McCrath
Sep 4, 202412 min read
Patrick Daniel O'Rourke: The Soccer Coach? Champion! The Man? Extraordinaire!
Patrick Daniel O’Rourke was born March 4, 1960, in Newry, Ireland as one of six children to Michael and Ellen O’Rourke.
Cliff McCrath
Jul 17, 20247 min read




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