UConn was first college in New England with five African-American starters; one of Dee Rowe’s coaching legacies

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• When Jack Ferguson died from coronavirus, a college he attended may have been the first to suffer the loss of two of its basketball players in the pandemic
• Dee Rowe, who had covid-19, was a coaching icon, but his talents as a college player were ignored by most of the media when he died at 91
• How did two teams in the Patriot League manage an unlikely 46-point turnaround in back-to-back games? Or, what a difference a day makes
• The chaos at the United States Capitol affected college basketball, preventing the playing of the UMass-George Washington game
• Mike Krzyzewski wants a reassessment before college basketball continues; denies Duke’s 2-2 record is the reason

The Former Basketball Player Who Blew the Whistle on Bill Cosby

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• EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketball
• A spectator and referee squared off at a girls travel team game in Indiana setting off a melee that police are investigating
• Texas Western, the first All-Black starting team in an NCAA tournament, changed the landscape of college basketball, and continues to be commemorated 55 years later
• Before Anthony Fauci became a doctor, he grew up as a sports junkie and was captain of the Regis High School basketball team
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• Dom Ferrara, a Connecticut high school basketball all-stater, who played at two colleges, then became an acclaimed scholastic coach, has died of coronavirus at 80

The Former Basketball Player Who Blew the Whistle on Bill Cosby

By Joel Alderman Bill Cosby is back in the news, and so is college basketball. Normally there is no...

• UConn was first college in New England with five African-American starters; one of Dee Rowe’s coaching legacies
• California high school basketball program penalized, and its coach fired for tortilla-throwing incident deemed as racist
• Miami Heat and Marlins provided help after the disastrous condo collapse
• Mike Krzyzewski’s decision to retire leads us to research his basketball life before becoming coach at Duke
• John Thompson once took a high school team he coached off the court in protest over the officiating, yet it is rarely included as part of his legacy
• Basketball a theme in several recent general news stories
• Kevin Porter Jr., not quite 21, set an NBA record that was previously held by LeBron James, but he still must overcome a rash of personal issues
• EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketball
• A spectator and referee squared off at a girls travel team game in Indiana setting off a melee that police are investigating
• Adia Barnes combined coaching and motherhood when she breastfed her child during the NCAA women’s finals

Finals Preview: Which matchups will determine Suns-Bucks winner?

This year’s NBA Finals are like a dream. For franchises like the Bucks and Suns to have found themselves...

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• Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat is charging fellow NBA players $20 for a cup of coffee in his side business within the bubble
• The NBA, NBPA, and Yale University join forces to fight COVID-19
• New look in the NBA is not just on the court but along the sidelines

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• The Former Basketball Player Who Blew the Whistle on Bill Cosby
• Finals Preview: Which matchups will determine Suns-Bucks winner?
• UConn was first college in New England with five African-American starters; one of Dee Rowe’s coaching legacies
• California high school basketball program penalized, and its coach fired for tortilla-throwing incident deemed as racist
• Miami Heat and Marlins provided help after the disastrous condo collapse
• Mike Krzyzewski’s decision to retire leads us to research his basketball life before becoming coach at Duke
• John Thompson once took a high school team he coached off the court in protest over the officiating, yet it is rarely included as part of his legacy
• Basketball a theme in several recent general news stories
• Kevin Porter Jr., not quite 21, set an NBA record that was previously held by LeBron James, but he still must overcome a rash of personal issues
• EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketball

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• The Lost Champions: The 2002 Sacramento Kings and the fixed Western Conference Finals
• The Lost Champions: The 2002 Sacramento Kings and the Fixed Western Conference Finals