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Rolling Hills Estates, California
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Rolling Hills Estates is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 8,067 at the 2010 census, up from 7,676 at the 2000 census, on the northern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, facing Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates is mostly residential. Incorporated in 1957, Rolling Hills Estates tries to maintain a bucolic character with a large number of horse paths. The history of Rolling Hills Estates actually dates back to the establishment of the first Spanish rancho land grant in California and it was Los Angeles County’s 60th municipality, incorporated on September 18,1957. The incorporation of areas, especially between the years of 1959 and 1982, into the city lines of Rolling Hills Estates began in the city’s early years. At the time, such expansion seemed to threaten the atmosphere its citizens cherished and wanted to preserve, today, the city has thirty distinct neighborhoods, each with its own style and architecture. As there are individual neighborhood Homeowners Associations as well every citizen, Rolling Hills Estates is located at 33°46′25″N 118°21′39″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 9.359 square kilometers,0.115 km2 of it is water. The 2010 US Census reported that Rolling Hills Estates had a population of 8,067, the population density was 2,232.4 people per square mile. The racial makeup of Rolling Hills Estates was 5,463 White,109 African American,19 Native American,2,007 Asian,8 Pacific Islander,120 from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 499 persons. The Census reported that 8,067 people lived in households,0 lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, there were 45 unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 23 same-sex married couples or partnerships. 512 households were made up of individuals and 353 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.72. There were 2,375 families, the family size was 3.07. The median age was 48.5 years, for every 100 females there were 93.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.2 males, there were 3,100 housing units at an average density of 857.9 per square mile, of which 2,714 were owner-occupied, and 251 were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1. 8%, the vacancy rate was 4. 9%. 7,302 people lived in owner-occupied housing units and 765 people lived in housing units. According to the 2010 United States Census, Rolling Hills Estates had a household income of $143,958
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Duke Blue Devils men's basketball
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The Duke Blue Devils mens basketball team is the college basketball program representing Duke University. The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA mens basketball program, Duke has won 5 NCAA Championships and appeared in 11 Championship Games and 16 Final Fours, and has an NCAA-best.755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have named the National Player of the Year. Additionally, Duke has 36 players named All-Americans and 14 Academic All-Americans, Duke has been the Atlantic Coast Conference Champions a record 20 times, and also lays claim to 19 ACC regular season titles. Prior to joining the ACC, Duke won the Southern Conference championships five times. Duke has also finished the season ranked No.1 in the AP poll seven times and is second, behind only UCLA, in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 121 weeks. Additionally, the Blue Devils have the second longest streak in the AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007, since that designation, Duke has won two additional national titles in 2010 and 2015. The January 30 issue of The Trinity Chronicle headlined the new sport on its front page, trinitys first game ended in a loss to Wake Forest, 24–10. The game was played in the Angier B, Duke Gymnasium, later known as The Ark. The Trinity team won its first title in 1920, the championship, by beating the North Carolina State College of Agriculture. Earlier in the season they had beaten the University of North Carolina 19–18 in the first match-up between the two schools, Trinity college then became Duke University. Billy Werber, Class of 1930, became Dukes first All-American in basketball, the Gothic-style West Campus opened that year, with a new gym, later to be named for Coach Card. The Indoor Stadium opened in 1940, initially it was referred to as an Addition to the gymnasium. Part of its cost was paid for with the proceeds from the Duke football teams appearance in the 1938 Rose Bowl, in 1972 it would be named for Eddie Cameron, head coach from 1929 to 1942. In 1952, Dick Groat became the first Duke player to be named National Player of the Year, Duke left the Southern Conference to become a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. The Duke team under Vic Bubas made its first appearance in the Final Four in 1963, the next year, Bubas team reached the national title game, losing to the Bruins of UCLA, who claimed 10 titles in the next 12 years. Bob Verga was Dukes star player in 1967, the basketball program won its 1000th game in 1974, making Duke only the eighth school in NCAA history to reach that figure. Gene Banks, Mike Gminski and Jim Spanarkel ran the floor, Mike Krzyzewski has been at Duke since 1980
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1986 NBA draft
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The 1986 NBA draft was held on June 17,1986. This draft holds the record for the most players who debuted in the NBA. There were various drug-related problems that plagued players in the 1986 NBA draft, most notable was the death of highly touted Len Bias. Bias died less than two days after being selected second overall by the defending champion Boston Celtics and his death was ruled an overdose that resulted from the abuse of the drug cocaine. Other problems involving drugs hampered the careers of Chris Washburn, Roy Tarpley, while a number of first-round selections were unable to make an impact in the league, this draft did feature a number of talented second-round selections. Dennis Rodman, who one of the leading defenders and rebounders in NBA history, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in August 2011. Mark Price, Kevin Duckworth, and Jeff Hornacek also went on to have successful careers, three others – Johnny Newman, Nate McMillan, and David Wingate – had long, productive careers as role players. This draft contained two exceptional international players, both of whom had shortened careers for unusual reasons, third-round selection Dražen Petrović was coming off an All-Star caliber fourth season when he was killed in an automobile accident in 1993. He has since been elected to both the Naismith Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame, the other, Arvydas Sabonis, was not permitted to play in the United States because of the dangerous political climate in the Soviet Union. He won two Olympic medals before his arrival in the NBA—a gold in 1988 with the USSR, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Sabonis had a very successful career in Europe before finally joining the Portland Trail Blazers in 1995. Sabonis had lost much of his mobility by the time he joined the team because of a string of knee and he finished second in both the Sixth Man Award and Rookie of the Year voting, after the 1995–96 season, he won a second Olympic bronze medal with Lithuania. He played seven seasons with Portland before returning to his homeland of Lithuania where he finished his career, Sabonis entered the FIBA Hall in 2010 and the Naismith Hall in 2011. This draft is known for the number of players who made important contributions to the sport of basketball outside of the court. For example, Nate McMillan had a successful run with the Seattle SuperSonics as a player and then as head coach. Scott Skiles was the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks and also the first coach to lead the Chicago Bulls to the playoffs in the post-Jordan era. Larry Krystkowiak, a former Bucks head coach, was hired in April 2011 as the new coach at the University of Utah. John Salley won four championship rings with three different NBA teams before becoming one of the hosts of The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports Network. Jeff Hornacek would also be an assistant head coach for the Utah Jazz for two seasons before accepting a job as the head coach for the Phoenix Suns in the 2013–14 NBA season
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Dallas Mavericks
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The Dallas Mavericks are an American professional basketball team based in Dallas. The Mavericks compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its games at the American Airlines Center. According to a 2016 Forbes magazine report, they are the ninth most valuable franchise in the NBA. As of the 2013 season, the Mavericks have sold out 477 consecutive games since December 15,2001, since their inaugural 1980–81 season, the Mavericks have won three division titles, two conference championships, and one NBA Championship. In 1978, Californian businessman Garn Eckardt met Dallas lawyer Doug Adkins, asking for a possible partner, Adkins recommended him one of his clients, Home Interiors and Gifts owner Don Carter. Negotiations with Eckardt fell through, but Carter remained interested in the enterprise as a gift to his wife Linda, who played basketball while at Duncanville High School. At the same time, Buffalo Braves president and general manager Norm Sonju grew an interest in bringing the NBA to Dallas as he studied possible new locations for the ailing franchise. Sonju and Carter tried purchasing both the Milwaukee Bucks and the Kansas City Kings, but disagreement on relocation stalled the negotiations, leading them to instead aim for an expansion team. The league was initially reluctant to expand to Dallas, given Texas had both the Spurs and Houston Rockets, and the 1978–79 NBA season was proving unprofitable and unpopular. Still, during the 1979 NBA All-Star Game weekend, NBA commissioner Larry OBrien announced the league would add two new teams in the 1980–81 season, with teams in Dallas and Minneapolis. Once the Minnesota team backed out, only Dallas remained, and through negotiations with general counselor and future commissioner David Stern, Carter would provide half the amount. James Garner, who played the character, was a member of the ownership group. The University of Texas at Arlington, who uses the Mavericks nickname, had objections about a shared name. They joined the Midwest Division of the Western Conference, where they would stay until the league went to six divisions for the 2004–05 season, Dick Motta, who had guided the Washington Bullets to the NBA Championship in 1977–78, was hired as the teams first head coach. He had a reputation of being a stern disciplinarian, but was also a great teacher of the game. In the Mavericks debut game, taking place in the brand-new Reunion Arena, but the Mavs started the season with a 6–40 record on their way to finishing 15–67. However, the Mavericks did make an acquisition that, while it seemed minor at the time
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Center (basketball)
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The center, also known as the five or the big man, is one of the five positions in a regular basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a deal of strength. The tallest player to ever be drafted in the NBA was the 78 Yasutaka Okayama from Japan, the tallest players to ever play in the NBA, at 77, are centers Gheorghe Mureșan and Manute Bol. Standing at 72, Margo Dydek is the tallest player to have played in the WNBA. The center is considered a component for a successful team. But recently, the NBA has turned into a point guard league, great centers have been the foundation for most of the dynasties in both the NBA and NCAA. In the 1960s, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain further transformed basketball by combining height with a level of athleticism than previous centers. Following the retirement of George Mikan, the rivalry of the two big men came to dominate the NBA, many of the records set by these two players have endured today. Most notably, Chamberlain and Russell hold the top eighteen season averages for rebounds, Bill Russell led the University of San Francisco to two consecutive NCAA Championships. He joined the Boston Celtics and helped make them one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history, Russell revolutionized defensive strategy with his shot-blocking, rebounding and physical man-to-man defense. His principal rival, Wilt Chamberlain, listed at 71,275 pounds, Chamberlain played college ball for the Kansas Jayhawks, leading them to the 1957 title game against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Although the Jayhawks lost by one point in overtime, Chamberlain was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player. He also won seven scoring titles, eleven rebounding titles, and four regular season Most Valuable Player awards, including the distinction, in 1960, stronger than any player of his era, he was usually capable of scoring and rebounding at will. Most notably, Chamberlain is the player in NBA history to average more than 50 points in a season. He also holds the NBAs all-time records for rebounding average, rebounds in a single game, in contrast to the Celtics dynasty of the 1960s, the 1970s were a decade of parity in the NBA, with eight different champions and no back-to-back winners. At the college level, the UCLA Bruins, under Coach John Wooden, built the greatest dynasty in NCAA basketball history, UCLA had already won two consecutive titles in 1964 and 1965 with teams that pressed and emphasized guard play. After not winning in 1966, Woodens teams changed their style when Lew Alcindor became eligible and he led UCLA to three championships-in 1967,68 and 69-while winning the first Naismith College Player of the Year Award. During his college career, the NCAA enacted a ban on dunking primarily because of Alcindors dominant use of the shot
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Scaligera Basket Verona
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Scaligera Basket Verona is an Italian professional basketball club based in Verona, Veneto. It comptes in the second division Serie A2 as of the 2015-16 season, in the 1990s, the club reached the first division Serie A, staying that for ten years. They won the Italian Cup in 1991, the Italian SuperCup in 1997, in 2002, the club went bankrupt. A new organisation born in 2010 retook the Scaligera name. com Team Profile
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Askatuak SBT
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Askatuak Saki-Baloi Taldea is a basketball club based on San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, of Spain, who plays in the Liga EBA. The team competed four years in the top Spanish league, one of them in the Liga ACB, also, played the Korać Cup during two seasons. In 1993 Askatuak sold its 1ª División spot to CB Salamanca, years later, in 2001, the team resigned to its berth in LEB Plata and was substituted as the first basketball team in San Sebastián by the new Gipuzkoa BC. For the next seasons, Askatuak started to play in divisions, achieving promotions to Liga EBA in 2010. 2nd division championships, 2ª División,1976 Liga EBA,2012 Official website
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College basketball
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The history of basketball is traced back to a YMCA International Training School, known today as Springfield College, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The date of the first formal basketball game played at the Springfield YMCA Training School under Naismiths rules is generally given as December 21,1891, Basketball began to spread to college campuses by 1893. Governing bodies in Canada include U Sports and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association, each of these various organizations are subdivided into from one to three divisions based on the number and level of scholarships that may be provided to the athletes. The first basketball games in the United States were played at YMCAs in 1891 and 1892, by 1893, the game was being played on college campuses. The original rules for basketball were very different from todays modern rules of the sport, in the beginning James Naismith established 13 original rules, The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist, a player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, the ball must be held by the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it, no shouldering, holding, pushing, striking, or tripping in any way of an opponent is allowed. A foul will be called when a player is seen striking at the ball with the fist, or when violations of rules 3 and 4, if either side makes three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents. A goal shall be made when the ball is thrown or batted from the grounds into the basket and stays there, if the ball rests on the edges, and the opponent moves the basket, it shall count as a goal. When the ball out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field. In case of dispute the umpire shall throw it straight into the field, the thrower-in is allowed five seconds. If he holds it longer, it shall go to the opponent, if any side persists in delaying the game, the umpire shall call a foul on them. The umpire shall be the judge of the men and shall note the fouls and he shall have power to disqualify men according to rule 5. The referee shall be judge of the ball and shall decide when the ball is in play, in bounds, to side it belongs. He shall decide when a goal has been made and keep account of the goals, the time shall be two fifteen-minute halves, with five minutes rest between. The side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winner, the following is a list of some of the major NCAA Basketball rule changes with the year they went into effect. The first known college to field a team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University
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ESPN
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ESPN is a U. S. -based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc. a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut, the network also operates offices in Miami, New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. John Skipper currently serves as president of ESPN, a position he has held since January 1,2012, as of February 2015, ESPN is available to approximately 94,396,000 paid television households in the United States. In 2011, ESPNs history and rise was chronicled by These Guys Have All the Fun, Bill Rasmussen conceived the concept of ESPN in late May 1978, after he was fired from his job with the World Hockey Associations New England Whalers. One of the first steps in Bill and his son Scotts process was finding land to build the channels broadcasting facilities, the Rasmussens first rented office space in Plainville, Connecticut. However, the plan to base ESPN there was put on hold because a local ordinance prohibiting buildings from bearing rooftop satellite dishes and this helped the credibility of the fledgling company, however there were still many doubters to the viability of their sports channel concept. ESPN launched on September 7,1979, beginning with the first telecast of what would become the flagship program. Taped in front of a live audience inside the Bristol studios. ESPNs next big break came when the acquired the rights to broadcast coverage of the early rounds of the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. It first aired the NCAA tournament in March 1980, creating the modern day television event known as March Madness. The channels tournament coverage also launched the career of Dick Vitale. In April of that year, ESPN created another made-for-TV spectacle, the next major stepping stone for ESPN came over the course of a couple of months in 1984. During this time period, the American Broadcasting Company purchased 100% of ESPN from the Rasmussens, for years, the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball refused to consider cable as a means of broadcasting some of their games. However, with the backing of ABC, ESPNs ability to compete for major sports contracts greatly increased, later in 1984, the U. S. ESPNs Sunday Night Football games would become the highest-rated NFL telecasts for the next 17 years. In 1992, ESPN launched ESPN Radio, a sports talk radio network providing analysis. It became the fastest growing cable channel in the U. S. during the 1990s, ownership of ABC, and in effect control of ESPN, was acquired first by Capital Cities Communications in 1985, and then by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. In 2012, ESPN generated more revenue for Disney than any of its other properties combined, alongside its live sports broadcasts, ESPN also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary-styled shows. 30 for 30 started airing in 2009 and continues airing to this day, each episode is through the eyes of a well known filmmaker and has featured some of the biggest directors in Hollywood
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CBS Sports
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CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television network CBS. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on West 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City and its premier sports properties are the NFL, Southeastern Conference football, NCAA basketball, and PGA golf, including The Masters, and the PGA Championship. The online arm of CBS Sports is CBSSports. com, CBS purchased SportsLine. com in 2004, and today CBSSports. com is part of CBS Interactive. On August 31,2013, CBS Sports rolled out its previous graphics, on November 30,2015, CBS Sports released a new logo in order to coincide with the networks coverage of Super Bowl 50. The network also created a new graphics package that debuted as part of the networks Super Bowl week programming. Following the game, the package began to be utilized across all of their programming events. The Masters, which retains heavy production control over their event, also, the networks Thursday Night Football game broadcasts will continue to use the graphical style originally used since its debut in 2014. CBS Sports Radio is a radio network that launched on September 4,2012 with hourly sports news updates. It began offering a full 24-hour schedule of talk programming on January 2,2013. CBS Sports Radio is owned and operated by CBS Radio, a division of CBS Corporation, with Cumulus Media Networks handling distribution and marketing of the network. Sports radio stations that are owned by CBS and Cumulus Media carry part of the schedule of programming. In addition to carriage on stations, CBS Sports Radio also streams its programming on the internet. ESPN ESPN2 ESPN on ABC Fox Sports Fox Sports 1 Fox Sports 2 NBC Sports NBCSN CBSSports. com CBS Sports Network CBS Sports Radio CBS Corporation CBS Sports CBS Corporation CBS Interactive
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Press-Telegram
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The Press-Telegram is a paid daily newspaper published in Long Beach, California. Coverage area for the Press-Telegram includes Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, Norwalk, the Press-Telegrams precursor, the Press, was first published in 1897. The Press was purchased in the early 20th century by Charles H. Prisk and William F. Prisk, Charles being the owner and William the editor and publisher. Sometime after 1918 the Press was merged with another paper, the Daily Telegram, the paper was first published under the name Daily Press then, from 1924. Later, the Independent was merged into the Press-Telegram, creating the Independent-Press-Telegram with the Independent being the morning edition. The Independent was discontinued in 1981, leaving only the Press-Telegram as the only edition. The paper was owned by Ridder Publications and its successor Knight Ridder from 1952 to 1997, when it was acquired by its current owner, in 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media merged into Digital First Media. An online version of the paper began web publication in 1995, in 2011, the paper eliminated its sports, photography, and features departments. Some of the positions were picked up by the Torrance Daily Breeze. The papers longtime home, the Press-Telegram building at 6th Street, the papers operations were moved to the Arco Center in downtown Long Beach. The paper is located at 727 Pine Avenue in Long Beach. The Long Beach Press-Telegram Latest Headline of Paper newseum. org
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Mike Krzyzewski
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Michael William Krzyzewski is an American college basketball coach and former player. Since 1980, he has served as the mens basketball coach at Duke University. At Duke, Krzyzewski has led the Blue Devils to five NCAA Championships,12 Final Fours,12 ACC regular season titles, among mens college basketball coaches, only UCLAs John Wooden, with 10, has won more NCAA Championships. Krzyzewski was also the coach of the United States mens national basketball team and he has additionally served as the head coach of the American team that won gold medals at the 2010 and the 2014 FIBA World Cup. He was also an assistant coach for the 1992 Dream Team, Krzyzewski was a point guard at Army from 1966 to 1969 under coach Bob Knight. From 1975 to 1980, he was the basketball coach for his alma mater. Krzyzewski has amassed a record 88 wins in NCAA tournament games and he is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, in 2001 for his individual coaching career and in 2010 as part of the collective induction of the Dream Team. Krzyzewskis 903rd victory set a new record, breaking that held by his former coach, Bob Knight. On January 25,2015, Duke defeated St. Johns, 77–68, again at Madison Square Garden, Krzyzewski was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Polish American, Catholic parents Emily M. and William Krzyzewski. The family name was originally Krzyżewski, and while the media and general public pronounces it /ʃəˈʃɛfski/ shə-SHEF-ski, his own pronunciation is /ʒəˈʒɛvski/ zhə-ZHEV-ski. Raised as a Catholic, Krzyzewski attended St. Helen Catholic School in Ukrainian Village, Chicago and, later, Archbishop Weber High School in Chicago, a Catholic prep school for boys. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1969, from 1969 to 1974, Krzyzewski served in the United States Army and directed service teams for three years. In 2005 he was presented West Points Distinguished Graduate Award, Krzyzewski was discharged from active duty in 1974 and started his coaching career as an assistant on Knights staff with the Indiana Hoosiers during their historic 1974–75 season. After one year with Indiana, Krzyzewski returned to West Point as head coach of the Army Cadets and he led the Cadets to a 73–59 record and one NIT berth in five seasons. On March 18,1980, Krzyzewski was named the coach at Duke University after five seasons at Army. Overall, he has taken his program to play in 31 of his 34 years at Duke and is the most winning active coach in mens NCAA Tournament play with an 86–25 record for a.767 winning percentage. His Duke teams have won 13 ACC Championships, been to 12 Final Fours, on February 13,2010, Krzyzewski coached in his 1, 000th game as the Duke head coach. On November 15,2011, Krzyzewski got his 903rd win passing Knights record for most Division I wins, in an interview of both men on ESPN the previous night, Krzyzewski discussed the leadership skills he learned from Knight and the United States Military Academy
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Duke University
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Duke University is an American private research university located in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the town of Trinity in 1838. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment, at time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father. Dukes campus spans over 8,600 acres on three campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. The main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot Duke Chapel at the campus center, the first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles away is adjacent to the Medical Center. Duke is the seventh-wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash, Dukes research expenditures in the 2015 fiscal year were $1.037 billion, the seventh largest in the nation. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named 32 of Dukes professors to its list of Highly Cited Researchers, Duke also ranks fifth among national universities to have produced Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars. Ten Nobel laureates and three Turing Award winners are affiliated with the university, Dukes sports teams compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the basketball team is renowned for having won five NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, most recently in 2015. Duke is consistently included among the best universities in the world by numerous university rankings, according to a Forbes study, Duke is ranked 11th among universities that have produced billionaires. Duke started in 1838 as Browns Schoolhouse, a subscription school founded in Randolph County in the present-day town of Trinity. Organized by the Union Institute Society, a group of Methodists and Quakers, the academy was renamed Normal College in 1851 and then Trinity College in 1859 because of support from the Methodist Church. Carr donated land in 1892 for the original Durham campus, which is now known as East Campus, in 1924 Washington Dukes son, James B. Duke, established The Duke Endowment with a $40 million trust fund, income from the fund was to be distributed to hospitals, orphanages, the Methodist Church, and four colleges. Duke thought the change would come off as self-serving. Money from the endowment allowed the University to grow quickly, Dukes original campus, East Campus, was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings. By 1930, the majority of the Collegiate Gothic-style buildings on the one mile west were completed. In 1878, Trinity awarded A. B. degrees to three sisters—Mary, Persis, and Theresa Giles—who had studied both with private tutors and in classes with men. With the relocation of the college in 1892, the Board of Trustees voted to allow women to be formally admitted to classes as day students
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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
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The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State University coach Harold Olsen. Played mostly during March, it has one of the most famous annual sporting events in the United States. The tournament teams include champions from 32 Division I conferences, and 36 teams which are awarded at-large berths, the 68 teams are divided into four regions and organized into a single-elimination bracket, which pre-determines, when a team wins a game, which team it will face next. Each team is seeded, or ranked, within its region from 1 to 32, after an initial four games between eight lower-ranked teams, the tournament occurs during the course of three weekends, at pre-selected neutral sites across the United States. The Final Four is usually played during the first weekend of April and these four teams, one from each region, compete in a pre-selected location for the national championship. The tournament has been at least partially televised since 1969, currently, the games are broadcast by CBS, TBS, TNT, and truTV under the trade-name NCAA March Madness. Since 2011, all games are available for viewing nationwide and internationally, such as in the Philippines, as television coverage has grown, so too has the tournaments popularity. Currently, millions of Americans fill out a bracket, attempting to predict the outcome of all 67 games of the tournament. With 11 national titles, UCLA has the record for the most NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championships, the University of Kentucky is second, with eight national titles. The University of North Carolina is in place, with six titles, while Duke University. The University of Connecticut is sixth with four national titles, the University of Kansas and University of Louisville are tied with three championships. During that time Villanova, Michigan, UNLV, Duke, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, the NCAA has changed the tournament format several times since its inception, most often representing an increase of the number of teams. This section describes the tournament as it has operated since 2011, for changes during the course of its history, and to see how the tournament operated during past years, go to Format history, below. A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament played during March, thirty-two teams earn automatic bids as their respective conference champions. Of the 32 Division I all-sports conferences, all 32 currently hold championship tournaments to determine which team receives the automatic qualification. The Ivy League was the last Division I conference that did not conduct a tournament, through the 2015–16 season, if two or more Ivies shared a regular-season championship, a one-game playoff was used to decide the tournament participant. Since 2017, the league conducts their own postseason tournament, the committee also determines where all sixty-eight teams are seeded and placed in the bracket. The tournament is divided into four regions and each region has at least sixteen teams, the committee is charged with making each of the four regions as close as possible in overall quality of teams from wherever they come from
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Johnny Dawkins
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Johnny Earl Dawkins, Jr. is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the UCF mens basketball team. From 2008–2016, he was the coach of Stanford. He was a two-time All-American and national player of the year as a senior in 1986 at Duke from 1982–1986, Dawkins subsequently played nine seasons in the National Basketball Association with the San Antonio Spurs, Philadelphia 76ers, and Detroit Pistons. From 1998 to 2008, he served as an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, Dawkins was born and raised in Washington, D. C. He played basketball at Mackin Catholic High School in Washington, D. C. before enrolling at Duke University, at Duke, he became the teams all-time leading scorer with 2,556 points, which stood until 2006 when J. J. Redick surpassed it. In Dawkins senior year at Duke, the 1985–86 season, the Duke Blue Devils attained a record of 37–3. They reached the 1986 NCAA championship game, where they lost to Louisville, in his senior season, Dawkins averaged 20.2 points per game and won the Naismith College Player of the Year Award, presented to the nations top Collegiate Basketball Player. He also served as alternate on the 1984 United States Olympic basketball team and he graduated with a degree in political science. His jersey number 24 was later retired, in the 1986 NBA Draft, Dawkins was selected by the San Antonio Spurs as the 10th pick overall. He appeared in the 1987 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, where he finished out of eight. He ended up playing in the NBA for nine seasons, also appearing for the Philadelphia 76ers, in his NBA career, he averaged 11.1 points,5.5 assists and 2.5 rebounds. He joined the Duke coaching staff in 1998, working alongside head coach Mike Krzyzewski and he was promoted to associate head coach in charge of player development in 1999. In April 2008, he was named coach at Stanford University. During his time with the Cardinal, he led them to NIT crowns in 2012 and 2015, on March 14,2016, at the conclusion of his eighth season, Dawkins was relieved of his duties as head coach. On March 22,2016, Dawkins was hired as coach by the University of Central Florida. Shortly thereafter, his son, Aubrey Dawkins, transferred from Michigan to play for his father
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USA Basketball
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USA Basketball is a non-profit organization and the governing body for basketball in the United States. The organization represents the United States in FIBA and the mens and womens basketball teams in the United States Olympic Committee. Its chairman of the board is Jerry Colangelo and its director is Jim Tooley. The organization was founded in 1974 as the Amateur Basketball Association of the United States of America and it was renamed to USA Basketball on October 12,1989, after FIBA modified its rules to allow professional basketball players to compete in international competitions. In 2007, the USA was represented by the University of Northern Iowa, in 2003, the USA was represented by a Big 12 All Star team. In 2007, the USA was represented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, william Jones Cup Team USA Womens Pan American Team United States womens national 3x3 team Official site Official facebook USA Basketball reports from Insidehoops. com
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Liga ACB
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The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system. A total of 48 teams have competed in Liga ACB since its inception, six teams have been crowned champions, with Real Madrid winning the title a record 33 times and FC Barcelona 18 times. Real Madrid dominated the championship from the 1950s through the 1970s when was organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation, in more recent years, Baskonia has joined a coalition of now three teams dominating Liga ACB alongside Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. Liga ACB is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world. The competition format follows the usual double round-robin format, during the course of a season, which lasts from October to May, each club plays every other club twice, once at home and once away, for a total of 32 games. Teams receive one point for a win, and no points for a loss, teams are ranked by total points, with the eight highest-ranked clubs at the end of the season plays the playoffs and the winner of the playoffs is crowned champion. A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Liga ACB and the LEB Oro and these three teams were CB Guadalajara and CB Cornellà in 1993 and CB Cajabilbao in 1994. Since 2012, due to the crisis that started in 2008. This fact started a discussion about the requirements of the ACB in order to promote, for clubs that promote and would make their debut in the ACB demands, An arena with a minimum capacity of 5,000 seats. For clubs that come back to the league after a promotion, a deposit of €1, 7m that would be returned in case of relegation to LEB Oro. In case of a new promotion, this deposit is required to be restored, the conversion into a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva if the club remains in Liga ACB after its first season. In 2012, Iberostar Canarias and Menorca Bàsquet achieved the promotion to ACB, however, Canarias finally played in ACB after buying the berth in the league of Lucentum Alicante, previously sold to the association. In 2013, neither CB Atapuerca, Ford Burgos by sponsorship reasons, the seconds resigned also to play in the second league and joined the fifth division. In 2014 and 2015, CB Tizona, also Ford Burgos by sponsorship reasons, after its second failed promotion, the third in the city of Burgos, the club sued the Association and this one accused them of distorting the reality. However, ACB would admit Ourense for the 2016–17 season if it fulfill the requirements regardless of their position in the 2015–16 LEB Oro season. On June 2016, the two promoted teams from LEB Oro resigned to promote to the 2016–17 ACB season and requested to the ACB their sign in before the 2017–18 season, the second million delayed on the dates agreed between the club and ACB. A deposit of €1, 6m that would be returned in case of relegation to LEB Oro, in case of a new promotion, this deposit is required to be restored. The conversion into a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva before the start of their season in Liga ACB
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Duke University School of Law
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Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Dukes 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868, in 1924, following the renaming of Trinity College to Duke University, the school was renamed the Duke University School of Law. Notable alumni include former President of the United States Richard Nixon, esteemed television personality Charlie Rose, on average, 95% of students are employed at graduation, with a median starting salary in the private sector of over $160,000. Duke Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States, according to U. S. News Report, Duke Law is ranked the #10 law school in the United States. Duke Law is routinely ranked within the top 14 law schools in the country, and is a member of the T-14 law schools, Duke Law along with only two other T-14 schools has graduated a President of the United States. In 2011, law firm recruiters ranked Duke Law as the 8th best law school in the country, in addition, Duke Law was ranked by Forbes as having graduated lawyers with the 2nd highest median mid-career salary amount. In the Above The Law Rankings, Duke Law ranks within the top ten law schools at #6 based on long-term employment data, large firm placement, and federal clerkship placements. It currently is ranked the #8 best law school by the 2015 U. S. News Rankings and has remained in the T-14 since U. S. News began ranking law schools. In fact, it has never ranked lower than 12th by U. S. News. The law school is well known for the strength of its alumni network. The law schools career services office regularly keeps in contact with Duke Law alumni, Duke Law is one of the most selective law schools in the United States. The law school is one of few that have experienced an increase in law school applications despite a national decline of applications in recent years. For the class entering in the fall of 2014,221 students enrolled out of 5,358 applicants, the 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2014 entering class were 166 and 170, respectively, with a median of 169. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.66 and 3.85, respectively, the School has approximately 640 J. D. students and 75 students in the LL. M. and S. J. D. In 1855 Trinity College, the precursor to Duke University, began offering lectures on Constitutional and International Law, in 1865, Trinitys Law Department was officially founded, while 1868 marked the official chartering of the School of Law. After a ten-year hiatus from 1894 to 1904, James B, Duke and Benjamin Newton Duke provided the endowment to reopen the school, with Samuel Fox Mordecai as its senior professor. When Trinity College became part of the newly created Duke University upon the establishment of the Duke Endowment in 1924, in 1930, the Law School moved from the Carr Building on Dukes East Campus to a new location on the main quad of West Campus. During the three years preceding this move, the size of the law library tripled, among other well-known alumni, President Richard Nixon graduated from the school in 1937
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Juris Doctor
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The Juris Doctor degree, also known as the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. It is earned by completing law school in Australia, Canada and the United States and it has the academic standing of a second-entry, professional baccalaureate degree in Canada, a masters degree in Australia and a professional doctorate in the United States. The degree was first awarded in the United States in the early 20th century and was created as a version of the old European doctor of law degree. Originating from the 19th century Harvard movement for the study of law. It involves a program in most jurisdictions. To be authorized to practice law in the courts of a state in the United States. Lawyers must, however, be admitted to the bar of the court before they are authorized to practice in that court. Admission to the bar of a district court includes admission to the bar of the related bankruptcy court. In the United States, the doctorate in law may be conferred in Latin or in English, as Juris Doctor and at some law schools Doctor of Law. Juris Doctor literally means Teacher of Law, while the Latin for Doctor of Jurisprudence—Jurisprudentiae Doctor—literally means Teacher of Legal Knowledge, the J. D. is not to be confused with Doctor of Laws or Legum Doctor. In institutions where the latter can be earned, e. g. D, the LL. D. is invariably an honorary degree in the United States. The first university in Europe, the University of Bologna, was founded as a school of law by four famous legal scholars in the 11th century who were students of the school in that city. This served as the model for law schools of the Middle Ages. While Bologna granted only doctorates, preparatory degrees were introduced in Paris, the nature of the J. D. can be better understood by a review of the context of the history of legal education in England. The teaching of law at Cambridge and Oxford Universities was mainly for philosophical or scholarly purposes, the universities taught only civil and canon law but not the common law that applied in most jurisdictions. The original method of education at the Inns of Court was a mix of moot court-like practice and lecture, by the fifteenth century, the Inns functioned like a university akin to the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, though very specialized in purpose. With the frequent absence of parties to suits during the Crusades, the importance of the role grew tremendously. The apprenticeship program for solicitors thus emerged, structured and governed by the rules as the apprenticeship programs for the trades
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Beaverton, Oregon
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Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U. S. state of Oregon. The city center is 7 miles west of downtown Portland in the Tualatin River Valley, as of the 2010 census, the population is 89,803. This makes it the second-largest city in the county and Oregons sixth-largest city, Fire protection and EMS services are provided through Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue. In 2010, Beaverton was named by Money magazine as one of the 100 best places to live, along with Hillsboro, Beaverton is one of the economic centers for Washington County, home to numerous corporations in a variety of industries. According to Oregon Geographic Names, Beavertons name is derived from the proximity to a large body of water resulting from beaver dams. The area of Tualatin Valley which became Beaverton was originally the home of a Native American tribe known as the Atfalati, which settlers mispronounced as Tualatin. The Atfalati population dwindled in the part of the 18th century. The natives had a village called Chakeipi, meaning Place of the Beaver, early settlers include the Hall Family from Kentucky, the Denneys who lived on their claim near present-day Scholls Ferry Road and Hall Blvd, and Orin S. Allen, from western New York. Lawrence Hall purchased 640 acres in Beaverdam in 1847 and built a grist mill with his brother near present-day Walker Road and his was the first land claim in the area. He was soon followed by Thomas Denney in 1848, who came to the area, in 1860, a toll plank road from Portland to Beaverton was completed over a trail called Canyon Road. After the American Civil War, numerous settlers, including Joshua Welch, George Betts, Charles Angel. In 1872, Beavertons first post office opened in a store operated by Betts. Betts Street, where the current post office now stands, is named in honor of him, in 1893, Beaverton, which by that time had a population of 400, was officially incorporated. Alonzo Cady, a businessman, served as the first mayor. Many major roads in Beaverton are named for early settlers. Beaverton was a home to automobile dealerships. A Ford Motor Company dealership was established there in 1915, it was purchased by Guy Carr in 1923, there are still several dealerships near the intersection of Walker and Canyon Roads. In the early 1920s, Beaverton was home to Premium Picture Productions, the studio site was later converted into Watts Field and associated aircraft manufacturing facilities
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Amar'e Stoudemire
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Amare Carsares Stoudemire is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League and the EuroCup. Stoudemire played high school basketball for five different schools, ultimately graduating from Cypress Creek High School in Orlando, Florida and he won several prep honors, including being selected as Floridas Mr. Basketball. The Phoenix Suns selected him with the ninth pick in the 2002 NBA draft. He spent his first 12½ seasons with the Suns and the New York Knicks, before finishing his NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat. Listed at 6 feet 10 inches and 245 pounds, the highly athletic Stoudemire suffered from knee problems during his career. His off-court ventures include a label, a clothing line, acting. In addition, Stoudemire owns a significant share of the Hapoel Jerusalem Basketball Club, Stoudemires first name had previously been listed in the Phoenix Suns media guide as Amaré or Amare, but it was changed to Amare in October 2008. Stoudemire told NBA. com that his name had always been spelled Amare, Stoudemire was born in Lake Wales, Florida, a small city within an hours drive of Orlando, Florida. Stoudemires parents, Hazell and Carrie, divorced when he was young, together they had two sons, Hazell Jr. and Amare. Stoudemires mother did work, picking oranges in Florida and migrating north to Upstate New York to pick apples during the fall. Upon divorcing Hazell, she met Artis Wilmore, with whom she had a son, Marwan, Hazell died of a heart attack when Stoudemire was 12, and his mother was in and out of prison for crimes such as petty theft and forgery during that time. As a result of moving in-and-out with his mother and her problems with the law and his final move was to Cypress Creek High School in Orlando, Florida, where he graduated in 2002. Due to all the transfers he missed his junior year of basketball. He told Isaac Perry in an article for Dime Magazine that what kept him going during that time was God. Apart from basketball, Stoudemire excelled in football and he was coached by his father in Pop Warner football and imagined himself a star receiver for the University of Miami, Florida or Florida State. Growing up he rooted for Shaquille ONeal, center for the hometown Orlando Magic of the NBA, Stoudemire did not start playing organized basketball until he was 14. He only played two years of it in school, but in both he was named the MVP of the Nike Summer League. In his senior year he averaged 29.1 points,15 rebounds,6.1 blocked shots and he was also named Floridas Mr. Basketball, the Orlando Sentinels Florida High School Player of the Year, and to USA Todayss All-USA Basketball First Team
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Mark Gottfried
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Mark Frederick Gottfried is an American mens college basketball coach and former player. He was named coach of North Carolina State University on April 5,2011. Gottfried played one season at Oral Roberts and three seasons at Alabama, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in each of his seasons with the Crimson Tide. He spent eight seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA, including the teams 1995 NCAA championship season, Gottfried is currently an honorary board of trustees member of the Athletes in Action sports ministry. Gottfried was born in Crestline, Ohio and he played varsity basketball at Carterville High School in Carterville, Illinois and Carbondale High School in Carbondale, Illinois. He then played for UMS Prep in Mobile, Alabama during his senior year, as a student, he was selected to the National Honor Society. Gottfried was inducted into UMS-Wrights Hall of Fame and in 2004 was the UMS Alumnus of the Year, Gottfried attended Oral Roberts on a basketball scholarship. After playing there for one season, where he was a Freshman All-American, there, he started 98 consecutive games, and Alabama advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in all three seasons he played. He holds the records for most 3-point shots made in a single game with eight in a 1987 game against Vanderbilt. He was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the round of the 1987 NBA Draft. Instead, he spent three years touring with Athletes in Action, then attended UCLA graduate school for two years, Gottfried served as an assistant coach for eight seasons at UCLA under Jim Harrick. Also members of the staff were former St. Johns and UCLA head coach Steve Lavin, the Bruins were the 1995 NCAA champions with Gottfried as an assistant coach and recruiter. He faced his former school twice as coach at Alabama, losing 79–57 in the 2001 John Wooden Classic. Gottfried was head coach from 1995 to 1998 at Murray State University, Murray State advanced to the NCAA tournament in 1997 and again in 1998 and made the NIT in his first season there in 1996. He coached the Racers to Ohio Valley Conference Championships in each of his seasons as head coach, in his last season, the Racers finished 25th in the final AP Poll. Gottfried was hired by the University of Alabama on March 25,1998 and he led the Tide to the SEC regular season championship in the 2001–02 season. The following year, his became the first in Crimson Tide history to be ranked No.1 in the AP poll. The team held the ranking for two weeks before losing 51–49 to Utah shortly before conference play, during the end of the following season, his team upset top-ranked and top-seeded Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament
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Tom Izzo
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Thomas Michael Izzo is an American college basketball coach. Since 1995, he has been the coach for the Michigan State Spartans mens basketball team. On April 4,2016, Izzo was elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, under Izzo, Michigan State has been one of the most successful collegiate basketball programs in the country. The coach with the most wins in history, Izzos teams have earned invitations to 19 consecutive NCAA tournaments. These accomplishments led analyst Andy Katz at ESPN to deem Michigan State the top college basketball program for the decade from 1998 to 2007, Izzo is just the fifth coach in Big Ten history to win seven conference titles. His immense success during the NCAA Tournament has earned Izzo the nickname Mr. March among active coaches, Izzo was born and raised in Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where he met best friend and former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci. Both attended Iron Mountain High where they were teammates on the football, basketball, at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, where they were roommates, Izzo played guard for the mens basketball team from 1973 to 1977. In his senior season, he set a record for minutes played and was named a Division II All-American. After graduating from Northern Michigan, Izzo was head coach at Ishpeming High School for one season and he then took an assistant coaching job at Northern Michigan University from 1979 to 1983. Izzo was then named an assistant at Michigan State in September 1983. After a short stay in 1986 as an assistant coach at University of Tulsa. Prior to the 1990–91 season, then coach Jud Heathcote elevated Izzo to associate head coach, hired as head coach at Michigan State in 1995, Izzo is currently the longest-tenured basketball coach in the Big Ten Conference. He became the coach with the most wins in history after winning his 341st game on November 29,2009 to surpass Heathcote. In his first two seasons as coach, Izzo went 9–9 finishing 6th and 7th in the conference. In 1998, MSUs record in conference improved to 13–3 and Izzo won the first of his seven regular-season Big Ten championships,1998 also saw Michigan State begin a streak of 19 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, which is the 3rd longest current streak among Division I teams. Izzo has a record of 46–18 in the NCAA Tournament, with the instate rivalry with Michigan, Izzos official record against the Wolverines is 24–14. Although Michigan vacated 5 of their wins in the series at the start of his coaching career. In 2000, Izzo led MSU to its second NCAA national championship with an 89–76 win over Florida, eighty-two percent of his players who completed their eligibility left MSU with a degree
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Kelvin Sampson
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Kelvin Matthew Sampson is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Houston Cougars mens basketball team. He was a coach at Montana Tech from 1981 to 1985, Washington State University from 1987 to 1994, the University of Oklahoma from 1994 to 2006. He has also been an assistant coach for several NBA teams including the Milwaukee Bucks, Sampson was captain of his high school basketball team for two years, and played for his father John W. Ned Sampson. Later he played at Pembroke State University, concentrating on basketball and baseball, the point guard was team captain for the Braves as a senior and earned four letters in basketball and three in baseball. He earned Deans List recognition throughout his career and received the Gregory Lowe Memorial Award as the schools outstanding physical education major his senior year. After earning degrees from Pembroke State in both health and physical education and political science, Sampson pursued his masters degree in coaching and he left with his degree and a years experience as a graduate assistant under Jud Heathcote. Sampson is married to Karen Lowery and they have one daughter, Lauren, and one son, Kellen. Lauren is the Director of Sports Marketing at College of Charleston, Sampson then moved to Montana Tech where he became assistant coach. After serving as a coach for one season, Sampson guided the Orediggers to a 73–45 record in his final four seasons. Montana Tech had won just 17 games combined in the three years before his arrival, Sampson turned in three consecutive 22-win seasons and claimed three Frontier Conference championships at Montana Tech. He led his teams to two NAIA District 12 title games and was named the coach of the year in 1983 and 1985. In 2005 and 2006, Coach Sampson has been some of the nations best college basketball coaches participating in Operation Hardwood. Operation Hardwood is a basketball tournament for the troops which is located in Kuwait. Some of the coaches Sampson joined were Texas Rick Barnes, Michigan States Tom Izzo, after five years at Montana Tech Sampson joined the staff at Washington State University as an assistant to Len Stevens. After two years under Stevens, Sampson was named the coach of the Washington State Cougars in 1988. When Sampson led the team to the NIT in 1992, it marked the first time Washington State had participated in play since 1983. He was named Kodak District 14 Coach of the Year by the NABC for the time in three years. He first won the award in 1991 when his Cougar squad produced the schools first winning season since 1983, Sampson was also named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in 1992
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Tubby Smith
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Orlando Henry Tubby Smith is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the mens head coach for the University of Memphis. Smith previously served in the role at the University of Tulsa, the University of Georgia, the University of Kentucky, the University of Minnesota. With Kentucky, he coached the Wildcats to the 1998 NCAA championship, in his 26 years as a head coach, Smith has achieved 24 winning seasons. In 2005, he joined Roy Williams, Nolan Richardson, Denny Crum, with Texas Techs invitation to the 2016 NCAA Tournament, Smith became only the second coach in history to lead five different teams to the NCAA tournament. Smiths three sons are following in their fathers coaching footsteps, Smith, who played for his father at the University of Georgia, is the coach at Loyola. His middle son Saul Smith played for his father at the University of Kentucky and is an assistant coach for his father, brian, his youngest son, was a point guard at Ole Miss and is an assistant coach at Windermere Preparatory School. Smith was born in Scotland, Maryland, in Saint Marys County and his large family accounts for his unusual nickname. Of all the Smith children, Tubby was most fond of staying in the washtub where the children were bathed. Smith says he tried to shake the moniker several times, and he recalls that a 10th grade teacher who didnt tolerate nicknames was the last person to call him by his proper name, Orlando. After having an offer from the University of Maryland rescinded, Smith enrolled at High Point College. He played under three different head coaches at High Point, including future boss J. D. Barnett and he lettered four times and was an all-conference performer as a senior. Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in health and physical education while at High Point, and also met his wife, Donna. In 1973, Smith began his career with four years at his high school alma mater – Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland. His next stop was Hoke County High School in Raeford, North Carolina, Smith began as assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth University under his former High Point coach J. D. Barnett. From 1979 to 1986, VCU amassed a 144–64 record, winning three Sun Belt Conference Championships, Smith took two important things away from his experience as an assistant coach for the Rams. First, under Barnett, Smith learned the principles of the ball-line defense, second was a relationship with fellow assistant David Hobbs, an assistant and associate head coach under Smith during his tenure at the University of Kentucky. Smith left Virginia Commonwealth in 1986 to join George Feltons staff at the University of South Carolina, Felton remembered Smith from having recruited one of his players while Smith was at Hoke High School
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Rick Barnes
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Richard Dale Barnes is the current head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers mens basketball team, a post he has held since 2015. Barnes previously coached at George Mason University, Providence College, and he is a 1977 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College where he was a member of the mens basketball team. Barnes success at Texas, a football powerhouse, sparked interest in college basketball at the university. Hired in April 1998, the program immediately displayed Barnes impact. Barnes received his third Big 12 Coach of the Year award on March 10,2008, at Texas, Barnes had great regular season success with 400+ wins and transformed the school into one of the top college basketball programs in the nation. He also led Texas to their first #1 ranking in 2010, however, he has won only one post-season conference tourney championship in his 21 years as a collegiate head coach. He has a record of 20–20 in the NCAA tournament. In nine of his fourteen years at Texas, the Longhorns went on to lose to a seed in the NCAA Tournament. In 2007 Barnes made a appearance in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights as a recruiter for the fictional school TMU. These former assistant coaches or players of Barnes later became head coaches at the level or higher, Dennis Felton, Western Kentucky, Georgia Fran Fraschilla, Manhattan
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Gary Williams
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Gary Bruce Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the coach at the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Boston College. In 2002, he led Maryland to win the NCAA Tournament Championship, Williams retired after the 2010–11 season, and is now a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network. Williams played for Maryland as the point guard under coach Bud Millikan. He was a member of the 1966 Charlotte Invitational Tournament championship team and he set a Maryland record for field goal percentage, going 8-for-8 from the field in an ACC game against South Carolina in 1966. Williams was the Maryland team captain in 1967 and he graduated in 1968 with a B. S. in Marketing. While at the University of Maryland, Williams was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, prior to entering the college ranks, Williams was a successful high school basketball coach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey. He won a NJSIAA state championship as head varsity coach at Wilson High, with his chance to learn under Dr. Tom Davis, Williams left to become an assistant basketball coach at Lafayette College in 1972 and continued at Boston College in 1977 until he became a head coach. He was also the soccer coach at Lafayette College during his assistant coaching job. Williams held three head coaching positions prior to Maryland, in 1978, Williams obtained his first head coaching position at American University. He led American to relative success, coaching them to several NIT berths, in 1982, Williams returned to Boston College, leading the Eagles to two NCAA tournament appearances, and one NIT appearance in his four-year tenure. In 1986, Williams took over at Ohio State of the Big Ten Conference, under Williams, the Buckeyes advanced to one NCAA tournament appearance and two NIT appearances in three seasons. The Maryland Terrapins, a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Williams coached the 1989–90 squad to a respectable 18–13 record and an NIT berth, however, in March 1990, the NCAA imposed harsh sanctions on the school for several major violations, mostly dating to the Wade era. Maryland was banned from play in 1991 and 1992, and was kicked off live television for 1990-91. Additionally, Maryland docked itself several scholarships over two years, with his recruiting efforts severely hamstrung, Williams found it very difficult to rebuild the program. However, with the help of Walt Williams, Maryland stayed competitive through a low point of the programs history, after a surprise appearance in the 1994 Sweet 16, the Terrapins were a fixture in the national rankings until 2005. In 2001, Williams led Maryland to the first Final Four in school history, on April 1,2002, Williams led the Terrapins to their first NCAA National Championship, defeating Indiana 64–52
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Dave Odom
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George David Dave Odom is a retired American mens college basketball coach, who most recently coached at the University of South Carolina. He had previously held the position at East Carolina University and Wake Forest University. Odom began his career in sports at Goldsboro High School, in North Carolina, after graduating in 1961, he attended Guilford College where he played quarterback on the football team for three years, as well as playing basketball for all four years. As a senior in 1965, Odom was named the colleges most outstanding athlete and he was also inducted into the Guilford College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983. After graduation in 1965, Odom accepted a job as the coach of Goldsboro High School while enrolled at East Carolina University in pursuit of a degree in physical education. Odom coached Goldsboro High School for four seasons between 1965 and 1969, after graduating from East Carolina in 1969, Odom took a job at Durham High School. He coached at Durham for seven years where he was voted his leagues coach of the five times. Odom began his coaching career as an assistant at Wake Forest University in 1976 under head coach Carl Tacy. After three years at Wake Forest, Odom became the coach at East Carolina University, where his squad compiled a 16-11 record. Odom stayed with the program until 1982, when he was offered a chance to return to the Atlantic Coast Conference as an assistant at the University of Virginia, during this time, Odom coached future No.1 NBA draft pick Ralph Sampson, who graduated in 1983. Odom served as acting coach when Holland missed several games due to illness in the 1988-1989 season. Odom left Virginia in 1989 to return to Winston-Salem as the coach of Wake Forest University. Upon his arrival in Winston-Salem, Odom inherited a team that had suffered four straight losing seasons under head coach Bob Staak, during this time, Wake Forest earned 7 straight NCAA Tournament appearances and one National Invitation Tournament championship. Odom was named ACC coach of the year in 1991,1994 and 1995 and he led his team to consecutive ACC Championships in 1995 and 1996. Much of the success during these two years is attributed to star center Tim Duncan, whom he recruited as a player in the U. S. Virgin Islands in 1994. In 1996, the team defended its title with a record of 26-6 by defeating Georgia Tech by a score of 75-74. Odom left Wake Forest to accept the job as coach of the University of South Carolina in 2001. During his tenure at South Carolina, his team earned one NCAA tournament bid and he was named SEC Coach of the Year in 2004
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Bobby Lutz (basketball)
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Bobby Lutz is an American basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach of the Windy City Bulls of the NBA Development League and he previously was an associate head coach at North Carolina State University Wolfpack mens basketball team after being an assistant coach there. Lutz was also coach of the Charlotte 49ers basketball team from 1998 to 2010. Lutz graduated from Bandys High School in Catawba, North Carolina in 1976 and from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1980 with a B. A. in Psychology and he taught social studies and coached basketball at several high schools in North Carolina. In 1984 he received a job as a assistant coach for the mens basketball team at Clemson University. Prior to the 1986–87 season he was named coach at Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer. He led the Falcons to a 181–91 record in his nine years as their coach, including one berth in the NAIA championship game. In 1995 Lutz was named the coach at Gardner–Webb University. He served as an assistant under Mullins and his successor, Melvin Watkins, when Watkins accepted the head coaching job at Texas A&M University, Lutz was promoted and became the eighth head coach of the Charlotte 49ers on April 9,1998. The 49ers enjoyed consistent success during Lutzs tenure, reaching the NCAA Tournament five times, in 2005 Lutz was a finalist for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award. Lutz 49ers were expected to contend for their first NCAA Tournament berth as an Atlantic 10 member in 2009-10, with eight games to go in the season, they had a record of 18-5 and seemed well on their way to a bid. However, they went 1-7 the rest of the way and they bottomed out in the first round of the Atlantic 10 Tournament against UMass when they came out of a timeout with six men on the court. The resulting technical foul derailed a last-ditch rally, and they lost the game, after not even receiving an NIT bid, Lutz was fired on March 15,2010. He compiled a 218–158 record at UNC Charlotte, and is the schools winningest mens basketball coach and he then spent a season as an assistant coach with the Iowa State Cyclones under head coach Fred Hoiberg. On September 30,2016, Lutz was appointed an assistant coach of the Windy City Bulls, bobby Lutz Profile - NC State University Official Athletic Site
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Billy Lange
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William Billy Lange is an American professional basketball coach currently serving as an assistant coach and director of player development with the Philadelphia 76ers. Prior to joining the 76ers, he was the head coach at Villanova University. He is the son of William Lange, Sr. a history teacher and retired head boys basketball coach for Lenape High School in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Born in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, Lange played high school basketball at Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey and he started his coaching career with a single season at his alma mater, Bishop Eustace, replacing his father in the role. In 1996, Lange began his coaching career as an assistant under the legendary Division II coach Herb Magee at Philadelphia University. After two seasons with Magee, Lange moved on to Division I ball, going crosstown and earning an assistant coaching job at La Salle University in 1998. While at La Salle, Lange helped the Explorers earn a 13–15 record during the 1998–99 season before being offered the job at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point. Langes first two years of head coaching were extremely successful. However, the squad earned a record of 17–11, including a 13–3 mark in conference, Langes second year at USMMA, however, would prove to be historic, as his team compiled a 22–8 record, including 15–1 in-conference. Consistent with his success at the Merchant Marine Academy, Lange returned to Division I ball when he accepted an assistant coaching position at Villanova University, from 2001 to 2004, Billy worked under Head Coach Jay Wright, while the Villanova Wildcasts enjoyed great success. While under Jay Wright, Lange learned the intangibles of how to win at college basketballs highest level, about Lange, Jay Wright was quoted as saying, Billy Lange is one of the great young basketball coaches in the country. Wright was not the one to notice Langes talent. Lange earned his first Division I head coaching assignment in 2004 as he became the coach at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Lange inherited a team that had gone only 5–23 the previous year. His teams showed improvement on the court, including a 16–14 record in 2007–08, the schools first winning season in seven years, Lange has a wife, Alicia, and four sons. Lange left his post at Navy to rejoin Jay Wright as his head coach on May 9,2011. After two seasons at Villanova, Lange was hired by the Philadelphia 76ers as a development coach for the 2013-14 season
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Jim Crews
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James S. Jim Crews is the former head mens basketball coach for Saint Louis University. He was promoted to coach after serving on an interim basis following the health concerns. He was on Majerus staff since 2011, after leading the Billikens to a school-record 28 wins, Crews was formally named SLUs 25th head coach on April 12,2013. He was fired after the 2016 Atlantic 10 Tournament resulted in the elimination of the Billikens, Crews spent the first 13 years of his adult life at Indiana University under Bob Knight. He played on the 1976 NCAA Championship-winning team, the last undefeated champion in the mens division, after graduating, he served as an assistant on Knights staff for eight years before moving to the University of Evansville in 1985. In 17 years, he led the Purple Aces to five NCAA Tournaments and his best team was the 1988-89 unit, which tallied the schools only NCAA Tournament win to date. He then coached at the United States Military Academy for seven years
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Bob Harris (sportscaster)
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Bob Harris, the Voice of the Blue Devils is a Hall of Fame-inducted play-by-play announcer for Duke University mens basketball and football teams. In his 40 seasons at Duke, Harris has broadcast 456 consecutive Duke football games and 1,358 Duke basketball games, Harris was inducted into the Stanly County Sports Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2006, Harris was named the 2011 North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, winning for the third time, following wins in 1988 and 1991. Harris has said, Im a fan, on June 25,2016, Harris received the prestigious Order of the Long Leaf Pine award from NC Governor Pat McCrory for 40 years of service to the state. Born in 1942, Harris grew up in Albemarle, North Carolina, beginning in 1960, Harris attended North Carolina State University for two years before leaving college to work for Goodyear. He later returned to his hometown for a job selling insurance, Harris volunteered to provide coverage of local football for the station, which led to him being hired as a full-time sports announcer, as well as sports director for eight years. In 1975, Harris and his family relocated to Durham where Harris had been offered a job on WDNC. A week later, he was hosting a talk show. Eventually, he served as commentator to then-Duke sportcaster, Add Penfield. When Penfield experienced health problems, Harris filled in, Penfield retired in the spring of 1976, opening the door for Harris to become the Voice of the Blue Devils beginning with the 1976 football season. ESPN considers the 1992 East Regional Final in Philadelphia the greatest college game ever played. From the Cotton Mill to the Crows Nest, recounting his career as the Voice of the Blue Devils. He has been courtside to witness all five of Dukes National Championship wins, included with the book is an 80-minute CD that features some of Harris’ interviews, including Muhammad Ali and Red Skelton, along with famous radio calls like “The Shot. ”. The book, which Harris spent five years writing, was scheduled for a March 2010 release and it was all set to be released, but then Duke won another national championship. Harris said, So I had to add another chapter for obvious reasons, Harris is active in book signings, often for the benefit of charities. He participated in a red carpet book signing event for Pantry, Inc. as part of their Battle for Bean Street competition, with the prize being a $20,000 corporate donation to the Duke Cancer Institute. Recently, Harris partnered with Kangeroo Express to host Salute Our Troops, says, Harris, I dont want to rust away. On Oct.15,2011 Harris celebrated his 400th consecutive Duke Football radio broadcast, “It just means that the good Lord has given me good health for 36 plus years and enabled me to be there, ” says Harris
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Rece Davis
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Laurece Rece Davis is a sports television journalist for ESPN. Davis works as an anchor on SportsCenter and serves as host of other programs on the network. Davis grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and graduated in 1988 from the University of Alabama, in 1987, Davis began working as a general assignment reporter for WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 2001 Davis was named as an alumnus of the University of Alabamas School of Communication and Information Sciences. After graduating from Alabama, Davis served until 1993 in various positions at WRBL-TV in Columbus, at the local news network, Davis worked as a sports reporter, the lead weekend news anchor, and later as WRBLs sports director. In 1993, Davis left Georgia for the market in Flint. Davis began working as an anchor and reporter at WJRT-TV. Davis left WJRT and Flint in March 1995 for Bristol, Connecticut and he began working for the ESPN2 program SportSmash, where he provided five-minute reports on sports news and scores. Davis hosted ESPN2s NBA 2Night in 1996 and 1997, from 1997 through 1999, Davis served as studio host of ESPN2s weekend RPM 2Night and Sunday morning RPM 2Day programs. Davis went on to anchor the program SportsCenter, alongside a number of other ESPN Personalities, Davis also frequently gave the Extra Point report of The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, and from time to time was a guest host on the program. Davis works on SportsCenter, college football and college basketball for the network, previously, Davis hosted horse racing telecasts during the Triple Crown season. He is also the host of the College GameDay basketball road show, the deal also sees Davis discontinue his ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime duties but continue his weekly basketball play-by-play role. Davis said of his work at ESPN, I dont think of my job as being hard, I know Im the luckiest guy around. I get to watch basketball and talk about it, when you never feel as if you go to work, its really easy and fun to do the homework
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Hubert Davis
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Hubert Ira Davis, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the NBA. He is the nephew of Walter Davis, also a former NBA player, Davis later became a college basketball analyst for ESPN. He is currently an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Davis attended Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, where he averaged 28.0 points per game in his senior year. He went to the University of North Carolina, he holds the record for the highest career 3 point percentage in UNC history and he remained with New York for four years, and was traded to the Toronto Raptors prior to the 1996-97 season. After Toronto, Davis spent time with the Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards, Detroit Pistons, Davis played his final NBA game in 2004, finishing with career averages of 8.2 points,1.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. Starting in 2008, Davis began working for ESPN as a basketball analyst. On May 2,2012, Davis was announced as an assistant coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels mens basketball team under Roy Williams, Davis is also the head coach of the UNC JV basketball team, the only JV team in the ACC. Most recently, Davis helped the team both the 2016 ACC tournament championship game and the NCAA Final Four
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Digger Phelps
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Digger Phelps is an American former college basketball coach, most notably of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish mens basketball team from 1971 to 1991. For 20 years, from 1993 to 2014, he served as an analyst on ESPN and he got the nickname Digger from his father, who was a mortician in Beacon, New York. Phelps began his career in 1963 as a graduate assistant at Rider College. After a move to St. Gabriels High School in Hazleton, Pennsylvania and his first head coaching job came in the 1970–1971 season at Fordham University, where he coached Charlie Yelverton and P. J. Carlisimo. After leading the Rams to a 26-3 record, a Number 9 national ranking, during his 20 seasons at Notre Dame, his teams went 393–197, with 14 seasons of 20 wins or more. In 1978, Notre Dame made its only Final Four to date and his most-remembered game was on January 19,1974, when the Fighting Irish scored the last 12 points of the game to defeat top-ranked UCLA, 71–70, ending the Bruins record 88-game winning streak. He shares the NCAA record for most upsets over a #1 team at seven, Phelps got his first broadcasting experience when he served as commentator for ABC Sports basketball coverage at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1992, he began his career as he announced color commentary for that years NCAA tournament for CBS. He joined ESPN the next season and worked for them until 2014 as a college basketball studio, Phelps announced during the 4/7/14 broadcast of College GameDay that he is leaving ESPN. I spent 20 years at Notre Dame as a coach and now 20 years here at ESPN doing a job with all you people. And now its time for me to forward, and this will be my last time on TV. Phelps added, Its been a great run, twenty years is always my target for everything, and its time to move forward. Phelps is a fan of opera. The well-rounded former coach made a appearance in the Notre Dame student opera performance of Offenbachs Orpheus in the Underworld. Phelps played the part of Bacchus, the God of Wine, Phelps released his memoirs in 2007, titled Undertakers Son, Life Lessons from a Coach. Phelps co-wrote the book with Jack Colwell, and the book details Phelps upbringing, professional success, life principles, Phelps resides in South Bend and has three adult children. His eldest, Karen, is married to baseball pitcher Jamie Moyer and he is a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Rider College. Phelps was instrumental in the restoration of various programs at John McDonogh High School in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, in April 2013, Phelps was diagnosed with bladder cancer
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Bob Knight
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Robert Montgomery Bob Knight is a retired American basketball coach. Knight is best known as the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000. He also coached at Texas Tech and at Army, while at Indiana, Knight led his teams to three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament championship, and 11 Big Ten Conference championships. He received National Coach of the Year honors four times and Big Ten Coach of the Year honors eight times. In 1984, he coached the USA mens Olympic team to a gold medal, Knight was one of college basketballs most successful and innovative coaches, having perfected and popularized the motion offense. He has also praised for running clean programs and graduating most of his players. Knight remains the object of near fanatical devotion from his former players, in 2008, Knight joined ESPN as a mens college basketball studio analyst during Championship Week and for coverage of the NCAA Tournament. He continued covering college basketball for ESPN through the 2014-15 season, Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Orrville, Ohio. Knight began his career as a player at Orrville High School and he continued under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor at Ohio State in 1958. The Buckeyes lost to the Cincinnati Bearcats in each of the next two NCAA Championship games, of which Knight was also a part. Due in part to the power of those Ohio State teams, playing time was usually scarce for Knight. In the 1961 NCAA Championship game, Knight came off the bench with 1,41 on the clock and Cincinnati leading Ohio State, 61-59. In the words of then-Ohio State assistant coach Frank Truitt, Knight got the ball in the front court. Then crossed over like he worked on it all his life and drove right in and laid it up. That tied the game for us, and Knight ran clear across the floor like a 100-yard dash sprinter and ran right at me and said, See there, coach, to which Truitt replied, Sit down, you hot dog. Youre lucky youre even on the floor, Knight graduated with a degree in history and government in 1962. After graduation in 1962, Knight coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year, in six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute. One of his players was Mike Krzyzewski, who served as his assistant before becoming a Hall of Fame head coach at Duke
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SportsCenter
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SportsCenter is a daily sports news television program that serves as the flagship program of American cable and satellite television network ESPN. ESPN is currently sponsoring SportsCenter and many other productions. SportsCenter airs live each weekday from 7,00 a. m. to 1,30 p. m.6,00 p. m.11,00 p. m. midnight, and 1,00 a. m. The 1,00 a. m. edition is often repeated until 7,00 a. m, on Sundays, an hour-long episode airs at 8,00 a. m. Eastern, with another edition of varying length airing at 10,00 a. m, Eastern Time, the 11,00 p. m. edition airs for 90 minutes on Sundays and is repeated throughout the night. In the event of live coverage on the network, the program is occasionally delayed or moved to either ESPN2 or ESPNews until the event concludes. The program also is known to early and run long. Eastern edition of SportsCenter has been produced live from Los Angeles, from 2006 to 2013, Major League Baseball only allowed ongoing game highlights to air during SportsCenter within the Baseball Tonight Extra segments in the broadcast. The National Football League does not permit the use of highlights for games that are ongoing at all, ESPN is traditionally unable to air highlights of Olympic events until after they have aired on tape-delay on NBC or its co-owned sister cable networks. SportsCenter was conceived in 1979, and created by ESPN executives Chet Simmons, the program was originally anchored by Chris Berman, George Grande, Greg Gumbel, Lee Leonard, Bob Ley, Sal Marchiano and Tom Mees. Grande introduced the country to ESPN when he co-anchored the premiere episode of SportsCenter on September 7,1979 with Leonard, Grande spent ten more years with ESPN and SportsCenter until he left the network in 1989. Ley also began anchoring early in the history and still regularly appears on the Sunday morning edition of the program. In 1988, the format was changed by executive producer Walsh from focusing on individual sports or leagues to a newspaper style structure. As a result, the program began airing stories based on their importance, the programs title sequence during its early years included various kinds of sports balls flying outward, set to a rapid-fire electronic music version of Pulstar by Vangelis. By 1989, the first of several songs to incorporate ESPNs trademark six-note fanfare went into use. The current version of the theme was composed in 2006 by Annie Roboff, throughout the 1990s, SportsCenters set underwent many changes. In 1994, ESPN launched the This is SportsCenter advertising campaign, the team of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann – who anchored the 11,00 p. m. edition of the program – achieved great popularity during the late 1980s and the 1990s. In 2001, Toronto-based Bell Globemedia and ESPN jointly acquired the Canadian sports network TSN, on September 11,2001, ESPN interrupted regular programming at 11,05 a. m
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ESPNews
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Known as ESPN3 in its planning stages and proposed as early as 1993, ESPNEWS launched on November 1,1996 and originally focused on airing sports news, highlights and press conferences. ESPNEWS has increasingly used as an overflow network for programming conflicts on the other ESPN networks. Olbermann was also carried live on ESPNEWS on weeknights if sports coverage on ESPN2 overflowed into that programs regular time slot, as of February 2015, ESPNews is available to approximately 71,989,000 pay television households in the United States. ESPNEWS is typically offered on the tiers of U. S. cable providers. If a national ESPN broadcast is blacked out in a particular market, eSPNEWSs bottom line – a small rectangular area at the bottom fifth of the screen which displays sports scores – was formerly more in-depth than the versions used by ESPNs other networks. It contained not only scores, but also statistics and brief news alerts about the sports headlines. m. Eastern Time on that same day, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio both provide channels with audio simulcasts of ESPNEWS, with the networks television advertisements replaced with radio ads from each service. On February 4,2008, XM rebranded its channel as ESPN Xtra, and added radio programs from local ESPN Radio affiliates as well as the audio simulcast of ESPNEWS. The Beat was shown while SportsCenter aired on ESPN at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time until its cancellation in July 2011, by early 2013, the only other programs featured on ESPNEWS were Highlight Express, and the overnight soccer program ESPNFC Press Pass. A program titled under the ESPNEWS brand was replaced by SportsCenter, the highlights and segment package for America This Morning came under the purview of the late-night SportsCenter team from Los Angeles from that day forward. When ESPN2 televised the 2009 U. S. Open tennis tournament, coverage of the NCAA Womens Softball Preliminary Tournament aired on ESPNEWS on May 18,2013, due to NBA playoff coverage on ESPN and X Games Barcelona coverage on ESPN2. The networks most apparent overflow use has been with the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2013. On April 26, ESPNEWS carried full live coverage of the Toyota Care 250 at Richmond International Raceway, due to NBA playoff coverage on ESPN, with the 2013 NFL Drafts second night airing on ESPN2. The Kentucky 300 on September 21 from Kentucky Speedway was also moved over to ESPNEWS due to football games airing on both ESPN networks. ESPN Goal Line also has expanded onto additional cable systems through new carriage agreements struck by The Walt Disney Company in early 2013. ESPNs coverage of Wimbledon was often moved to ESPNews in 2014 due to their coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, ESPNs coverage of the Wisconsin v. USC Holiday Bowl was moved to ESPNews in 2015. ESPNEWS operates a high definition simulcast feed, which broadcasts in 720p and was launched on March 30,2008, originally, the layout and graphics were reworked specifically for viewing on widescreen television sets, offering additional content not available on the channels standard definition feed. It utilized reworked HD sideline graphics, a descendant of the Rundown used on overnight editions of SportsCenter on ESPN, the HD Sideline offered the display of textual information, headshots, news and scores, while still delivering video highlights in the HD format
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