“Little” Joe Almallah is becoming a big part of the national-caliber boys high school basketball tournament, the City of Palms Classic.
The tournament concludes with the championship game, to be nationally televised on ESPNU at 7 p.m. Wednesday. During halftime of the event’s 37 games or in between them, fans file outside of Florida SouthWestern State College’s Suncoast Credit Union Arena in Fort Myers to buy food at Almallah’s concession stand, “Little Joe’s.”
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