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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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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...