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Lawsuit brought against Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim and the university for his fatal car accident in 2019
By Joel Alderman For the family of Jorge Jimenez of Syracuse NY, it is a recurring nightmare...
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Bethune-Cookman, an Historically Black University, leads the way in canceling all sports for the 2020-21 academic year
By Joel Alderman Up until now, the Ivy League held the distinction of being the first to...
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Jeff Van Gundy, who just missed another NBA coaching job, had a couple of other disappointments when he failed to make the Yale JVs, and also lost nerve to ask fellow student, Jodie Foster, for a date
By Joel Alderman Late last week Jeff Van Gundy was considered a finalist to return to his...
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Tom McNamara, Yale hockey captain in 1951, has died of coronavirus 14 years after Ted Shay, his college and high school teammate
By Joel Alderman There has been another coronavirus-caused death of a former college athlete and the first...
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UConn is paying a quarter-million dollars to seven women in athletics, including three basketball coaches, alleged by U.S. Labor Dept. to have been underpaid
By Joel Alderman Three female members of coach Gino Auriemma’s 2014 coaching staff for women’s basketball and...
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Scottie Pippen claims bubble play is like pickup basketball, but for LeBron James it is the “most challenging thing” he has done as a pro
By Joel Alderman The NBA has gone to the championship series- in a season that is like...
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Tom Cirrito, a first-year Yale student, set world’s record for dribbling a basketball while running a mile
By Joel Alderman A would-be college basketball player is turning to the sport of cross country, but...