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Article: Catholic League's rivalries intense // Hard-nosed players battle in small gyms

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December 13, 1991
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What's it like to play in the Catholic League? Just go to a game.

Chances are it'll be in a gym so small the players on the bench have their feet on the playing floor. With opponents talking trash and backing it up. With the action fast and furious. And a crowd that's into it.

Catholic League basketball has a definite personality.

"Floor burns, a competitor, fierce, intense, fiery. Somebody whose shirt is going to be hanging out of his pants a bit," is how Loyola's Karl Costello describes a Catholic League player.

"It's physical, strong, egotistical, brash . . . it's got all

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