NO SITTING DUCK: For Baltimore City athletic director Bob Wade (above), turnabout was fair play as he reversed the focus of Friday night's roast, in his honor. For those who told jokes about Wade -- including his son, Daryl, and former player, Muggsy Bogues -- the joke, as it were, was on them.
After "taking insults" and hearing "untruths" from friends and associates such as former Forest Park coach Obie Barnes, former Dunbar and Edmondson coach Pete Pompey, his former star player, Muggsy Bogues, and even his son, Mervo coach Daryl Wade, Bob Wade said he no longer could be a "good guy."
So during a roast in his honor at Martin's West in Woodlawn on Friday night, the former Dunbar football and basketball coach and present Baltimore City athletic director turned the tables on his adversaries.
Wade mixed some good-natured ribbing against his "rivals" with acknowledgements to his family -- including his wife of nearly 42 years, Carolyn Wade -- during a Bob Wade Roast whose proceeds benefit Dunbar's Poet Followers' athletics and acitivies program.
The event was sponsored by the Friends of Bob Wade Roast Committee, whose members were comprised of Dunbar athletic director Barbara Allen, Carl Beasley, Sherron Bogues, Kevin Bush, James "Godfather" Clowney, Tyrone Parker, Owen Davis, Patricia Davis, Marshall Goodwin, Warren Hayman, Vivian Hockaday, Derrick Jones, Walter Myles, Sandra Short and Andrew Smith.
Wade also acknowledged Sandra Short, wife of longtime Dunbar supporter, Ray Short, who died recently.
--Lem Satterfield.