Former Williams coach and Michigan alum Al Shaw dies at 102
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Former Williams College basketball coach Al Shaw has died at the age of 102.
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Tickets for Bob Knight speech going fast
Indy Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight is coming home to Indiana next month, the featured speaker for an Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame fundraiser.
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Al Shaw
EphBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
To the Williams Community, I am saddened to report the death yesterday of one of the college’s most colorful figures, former basketball coach Al Shaw, at the age of 101. Al earned induction into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame for his career here, which ran from 1949 to 1973. Before college athletics were separated into [...]
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Caster Semenya, the gender binary, and a case for the ‘sport continuum’
Sports, Media & Society (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
If you’re only vaguely familiar with the troubling case of sex-testing in sport and the Caster Semenya case, a new article in The New Yorker by Ariel Levy may offer the most incisive, comprehensive look at the case and the issues around it. Levy masterfully underscores the issues of racism and the power of the gender binary that underpin the tragic events around an 18-year-old South African
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Charles Barkley On "Jay Leno" VIDEO: Trashes Reporters, Talks Sammy Sosa, Politics And More
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Charles Barkley stopped by the "Jay Leno Show" last night and touched on a range of topics with his typical candor. Barkley expressed his interest in becoming a NBA GM, and struck back at people who have questioned his fitness for the job: "It's funny, people talk about you like you're dead, they're like, 'he's not gonna want to work hard.' Dude, I'm in the basketball Hall of Fame. Ain't...
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Gene Bartow inducted into Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame
Off the Vine - al.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Former UAB basketball coach Gene Bartow is now a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. (The Birmingham News/Jeff Roberts)Gene Bartow was in Kansas City on Sunday night for induction into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of...
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A New Chapter in Classic Magic-Bird Tale
The FanHouse - NCAAbasketball (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
by David Steele Filed under: Michigan State , FanHouse Exclusive KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inducted eight new members Sunday night, and nearly half of the two-hour ceremony was devoted to two of them. Not that it wasn't deserved: from the moment the list of enshrinees for the hall's fourth class was announced, it was universally known that it would be a Magic...
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Johnson, Bird enter collegiate Hall
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Larry Bird finished his speech, walked back to his seat and received a fist-bump from the man sitting next to him on the dais. Had to be Magic Johnson. If college basketball's hall of fame is going to open its doors to one, the other has to be there, too.
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Bird, Magic inducted into college hall together
Charlotte Observer: Sports (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
(By JOHN MARSHALL, AP Sports Writer) Larry Bird and Magic Johnson have been linked since their epic 1979 NCAA title game. Now they're going into college basketball's hall of fame together. Bird and Johnson were inducted into the National Collegiate Hall of Fame on Sunday in Kansas City. The honor comes 30 years after Johnson's Michigan State team beat Bird and Indiana State in a game that reshaped...
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Bird, Johnson Inducted Into College Hall Together
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson have been linked since their epic 1979 NCAA title game. Now they're going into college basketball's hall of fame together. Bird and Johnson were inducted into the National Collegiate Hall of Fame on Sunday in Kansas City.
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Bird, Johnson Inducted Into College Hall Together
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson have been linked since their epic 1979 NCAA title game. Now they're going into college basketball's hall of fame together. Bird and Johnson were inducted into the National Collegiate Hall of Fame on Sunday in Kansas City.
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Bird, Magic inducted into college hall together
MSNBC.com: College Basketball (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -Larry Bird and Magic Johnson have been linked since their epic 1979 NCAA title game. Now they're going into college basketball's hall of fame together.
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Bird, Magic inducted into college hall together
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson have been linked since their epic 1979 NCAA title game. Now they're going into college basketball's hall of fame together.
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Bob Knight Decides To Go Back To Indiana
Rush the Court (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Just two weeks after turning down Indiana University’s invitation to appear at his induction into the school’s Hall of Fame Bob Knight has announced that he will return to the Hoosier State for a fundraiser benefiting the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, which is different than Indiana University’s Hall of Fame. Knight will be the featured [...]
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High-scoring Grant gets hall of fame nod
MSNBC.com: College Basketball (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -College basketball's greatest scorer shot his way out of poverty with a tennis ball and a 5-gallon bucket tacked to his house.
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