- Tom Cirrito, a first-year Yale student, set world’s record for dribbling a basketball while running a milePosted 1 week ago
- David “Smokey” Gaines, a college player in the mid-1960s and a pioneering African American coach, contracted coronavirus while he was dying of cancerPosted 2 weeks ago
- Hall of Fame coaches Lute Olson and John Thompson died recently in the span of just three days, leaving a big void in college basketballPosted 4 weeks ago
- Trail Blazers players all wore headbands in tribute to Cliff Robinson after he died at 53Posted 4 weeks ago
- Lives lost of former college basketball players diagnosed with coronavirusPosted 1 month ago
- Kobe Bryant’s anti-gay insult was picked up by TV nine years before Thom Brennaman did the same last weekPosted 1 month ago
- Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat is charging fellow NBA players $20 for a cup of coffee in his side business within the bubblePosted 1 month ago
- The NBA, NBPA, and Yale University join forces to fight COVID-19Posted 2 months ago
- Hal Upjohn, 91, a member of the earliest Yale basketball team to play in the NCAA tournament in 1949, is the first Bulldog athlete known to have died from coronavirusPosted 2 months ago
- Will the college basketball season start on time? Geno Auriemma is doubtfulPosted 2 months ago
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new kind of sport
By Joel Alderman A would-be college basketball player is turning to the sport of cross country, but the new Yale first...
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RIP SMOKEY GAINES
By Joel Alderman Another pandemic related fatality in the basketball community occurred early this month. Although the death of David “Smokey”...
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Hall of Fame coaches Lute Olson and John Thompson died recently in the span of just three days, leaving a big void in college basketball
Their careers overlapped 17 seasons, but Lute Olson and John Thompson, who were Hall of Fame college...
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Trail Blazers players all wore headbands in tribute to Cliff Robinson after he died at 53
By Joel Alderman The entire Portland Trail Blazers team wore headbands Saturday (Aug. 29) during Game 5...
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Lives lost of former college basketball players diagnosed with coronavirus
Below is a list of former college basketball players who have died from the coronavirus in 2020....
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Michael Ojo, a recent star at Florida State Univ., may have been too anxious to get back on the court; he died after testing positive for COVID-19 and was working out against medical advice
By Joel Alderman Former Florida State University center Michael Ojo, who had tested positive for coronavirus and...
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Kobe Bryant’s anti-gay insult was picked up by TV nine years before Thom Brennaman did the same last week
By Joel Alderman The name Kobe Bryant brings to mind his many outstanding exploits on the basketball...