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- Tom Cirrito, a first-year Yale student, set world’s record for dribbling a basketball while running a milePosted 6 days 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago
- Will the college basketball season start on time? Geno Auriemma is doubtfulPosted 2 months ago
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Curly Neal, a player, comedian, and good-will ambassador with the Harlem Globetrotters, dies at 77
By Joel Alderman Basketball legend, Fred “Curly” Neal, a dribbling phenom with the Harlem Globetrotters, and the...
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Lee Green and David Edwards, both New Yorkers and college basketball players in the ’40s, have fallen to the coronavirus this week
By Joel Alderman Two stars of another era, Lee Green at St. John’s, along with fellow New...
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Ivy League, strongly criticized for canceling its tournament, was vindicated when all conferences and the NCAA did the same as March Madness became March Sadness
By Joel Alderman When, due to the increasing threat of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Ivy League...
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Basketball and Snoop Dogg, an irrelevant pairing that should be on separate stages
By Joel Alderman This shouldn’t be a basketball story but, unfortunately, it is. When the University of...
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Jerry West becomes the second ex-NBA player to receive nation’s highest civilian honor
By Joel Alderman Quick. What do Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bob Cousy, and Jerry West...
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Fields of mud and little grass are now a thing of the past at the Yale Bowl
By Joel Alderman It may have been a portent of things to come, but when the long...
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College gym floors getting new paint jobs; 3-point arc is enlarged starting next season
Those who have been complaining about the relative ease that 3-point shots have been made will be...