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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...
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David “Smokey” Gaines, a college player in the mid-1960s and a pioneering African American coach, contracted coronavirus while he was dying of cancer
By Joel Alderman Another pandemic related fatality in the basketball community occurred early this month. Although the...
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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...