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- 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 3 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 1 month 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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Legendary Hartford and Eastern CT State hoopster, Charles “Duffy” Jernigan, mourned by countless after COVID-19 death
By Joel Alderman His brief college basketball career ended as the runner-up high scorer his freshman year...
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Matt Gras of Siena, yet another former college star whose coronavirus passing is mourned by many
By: Joel Alderman The word “star” is often used in sports reporting rather generously, but in the...
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Ted Vartelas, native of Connecticut who played basketball for UConn, has succumbed to coronavirus
By Joel Alderman Ted Vartelas of Ansonia, CT lived much longer than the other former college basketball...
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Arnold Obey, hoop and track star at Wagner in late 1960s, is another casualty of Covid-19
By Joel Alderman In a previous article we noted the passing due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) of...
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With no live sports on TV, fans want their cable and satellite costs lowered
By Joel Alderman There is an old saying “You get what you pay for.” But in at...
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A third ex-college basketball player, Jonathan Duck (Iona) is victim of coronavirus
By Joel Alderman About a week after the first two former college basketball players died of the...
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NCAA will not give college basketball players another season of eligibility, but baseball and other spring sport athletes get the benefit
By Joel Alderman Basketball fans who hoped some college players would get an extra year of eligibility...