Fame

The Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Adolph and Rose Levis Museum will celebrate its 16th anniversary by honoring nine individuals at a reception to be held at 5:30 p.m. May 20 at the Gershman Y, Broad and Pine Streets. The 2013 inductees are: figure skater Ellen Barkann; former Penn baseball and basketball star Bob Brooks; former 76ers coach Larry Brown; former Temple basketball star Fred Cohen; tennis star and Freedoms head coach Josh Cohen; George Washington High football coach Ron Cohen; golfer Bonnie Kay; CBS senior vice president Marc Rayfield; and Pillar of Achievement honoree Jed Margolis, a longtime participant in the Maccabi Games.

THE PHILADELPHIA Sports Hall of Fame has been looking for a location to display some of the items its founders have accumulated since the Hall's inception. They have found it in a dedicated portion of Spike's Trophies' 24,000-square-foot facility on Grant Avenue in the Northeast. The Hall's museum staging facility had been in a Northern Liberties building for 5 years, but that was closed last fall when the landlord sold the building. The new facility has a Preview Gallery that "features themed exhibits, multimedia presentations and scaled-down vignettes as a launch-pad towards the vision of a future, full-service sports museum.

A LOT OF PEOPLE helped Soul coach Clint Dolezel reach the Arena Football League Hall of Fame. The receivers who caught the 931 touchdown passes he threw as a player. The offensive linemen who made sure he had the proper lanes to throw for 44,564 yards. But the person most crucial to Dolezel's success never strapped on shoulder pads or benched 350 pounds. "My wife, Kris," Dolezel said. "There is no way I could have done any of this without her. " Dolezel is in his first season as the Soul's head coach after spending a season coordinating the team's recordsetting offense.

Soul head coach Clint Dolezel will be inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame on Saturday in a ceremony before the Soul play the host Iowa Barnstormers. Along with Dolezel, five others, including Iowa head coach and former Soul head coach Mike Hohensee , will be inducted as members. AUTO RACING: There's going to be a Party in the Poconos, NASCAR style. The June 9 Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway will be named the Party in the Poconos 400 following the results of a fan vote.

ATLANTA - Growing up in the Raymond Rosen Projects in North Philly (25th and Diamond), Dawn Staley played every sport, but she said that "basketball chose her. " Monday morning in a ballroom at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta, it was announced that the Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame has chosen one of the city's most decorated basketball players. "Coming out of North Philly, no one's supposed to survive," Staley said. "No one's supposed to make anything of themselves.

ATLANTA - Rick Pitino got the phone call of a lifetime and an incredible text at the same time. On Wednesday, John Doleva, the president of the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, called seven people to tell them they would be in the class of 2013. Pitino was one of those seven calls. "When I got the call I was trying to call my wife over so she could hear it and I'm trying to put it on speaker phone and a text keeps beeping as I'm getting this special call," Pitino said Monday, just hours before he led Louisville over Michigan, 82-76, for the national championship.

NEW ORLEANS - Philadelphia basketball star Dawn Staley is expected to receive the highest honor in her storied career as a Class of 2013 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The official announcement will be made Monday morning at the NCAA men's Final Four in Atlanta. But several sources with knowledge of some of the inductees confirmed that she will be in the group. The 12 finalists, who include former 76ers player and coach Maurice Cheeks, were announced at the NBA All-Star Game in February.

Former Villanova coach Rollie Massimino, who led the Wildcats to the national championship in 1985, and former U.S. congressman Tom McMillen headline the 2013 class that will be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame. Massimino spent 30 years coaching Stony Brook, Villanova, UNLV, and Cleveland State. McMillen starred for Maryland in the 1970s before serving in Congress from 1987-93. Joining them will be ex-Purdue coach Gene Keady, George Ravling of Nike, Bob Hopkins of Grambling, George Killian of FIBA, and the 1963 NCAA championship team from Loyola of Chicago.

Rollie Massimino loves this time of the season, the NCAA tournament, and the Final Four, which obviously bring back memories of the crowning achievement in a coaching career that has reached 57 years. Massimino, who won 357 games in 19 seasons as Villanova head coach and led the Wildcats to the 1985 national championship, was named as one of the inductees into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place Nov. 24 in Kansas City, Mo. The official announcement came Monday, the 28th anniversary of the Wildcats' 66-64 victory over Georgetown for the national championship.