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- Basketball a theme in several recent general news storiesPosted 4 days ago
- Kevin Porter Jr., not quite 21, set an NBA record that was previously held by LeBron James, but he still must overcome a rash of personal issuesPosted 1 week ago
- EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketballPosted 3 weeks ago
- A spectator and referee squared off at a girls travel team game in Indiana setting off a melee that police are investigatingPosted 3 weeks ago
- Adia Barnes combined coaching and motherhood when she breastfed her child during the NCAA women’s finalsPosted 1 month ago
- Craig Drezek, a Connecticut educator, after being a basketball star in high school and college, was only 49 when coronavirus took his lifePosted 2 months ago
- Texas Western, the first All-Black starting team in an NCAA tournament, changed the landscape of college basketball, and continues to be commemorated 55 years laterPosted 2 months ago
- March Madness 2021: Which teams are national title favorites?Posted 3 months ago
- Before Anthony Fauci became a doctor, he grew up as a sports junkie and was captain of the Regis High School basketball teamPosted 3 months ago
- When Jack Ferguson died from coronavirus, a college he attended may have been the first to suffer the loss of two of its basketball players in the pandemicPosted 3 months ago
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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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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...
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Lee Green and David Edwards, both New Yorkers and college basketball players in the ’90s, 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 Leaguers Seth Towns and Jordan Bruner could be playing for major programs next season, even as teammates
At least two Ivy Leaguers, Seth Towns of Harvard and Yale’s Jordan Bruner, could be continuing their...
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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...