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The Pentagon
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The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C. As a symbol of the U. S. military, The Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the U. S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon was designed by American architect George Bergstrom, and built by general contractor John McShain of Philadelphia. Ground was broken for construction on September 11,1941, General Brehon Somervell provided the major motive power behind the project, Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U. S. Army. The Pentagon is one of the worlds largest office buildings, with about 6,500,000 sq ft, approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi of corridors. It was the first significant foreign attack on Washingtons governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British, when World War II broke out in Europe, the War Department rapidly expanded in anticipation that the United States would be drawn into the conflict. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson found the situation unacceptable, with the Munitions Building overcrowded, Stimson told U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941 that the War Department needed additional space. On July 17,1941, a hearing took place, organized by Virginia congressman Clifton Woodrum. Reybold agreed to back to the congressman within five days. The War Department called upon its construction chief, General Brehon Somervell, Government officials agreed that the War Department building, officially designated Federal Office Building No 1, should be constructed across the Potomac River, in Arlington County, Virginia. Requirements for the new building were that it be no more than four stories tall, the requirements meant that, instead of rising vertically, the building would be sprawling over a large area. Possible sites for the building included the Department of Agricultures Arlington Experimental Farm, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, the site originally chosen was Arlington Farms which had a roughly pentagonal shape, so the building was planned accordingly as an irregular pentagon. Concerned that the new building could obstruct the view of Washington, D. C. from Arlington Cemetery, the building retained its pentagonal layout because a major redesign at that stage would have been costly, and Roosevelt liked the design. Freed of the constraints of the asymmetric Arlington Farms site, it was modified into a pentagon which resembled the star forts of the gunpowder age. While the project went through the process in late July 1941, Somervell selected the contractors, including John McShain, Inc. and Doyle and Russell. In addition to the Hoover Airport site and other government-owned land, construction of the Pentagon required an additional 287 acres, which were acquired at a cost of $2.2 million. The Hells Bottom neighborhood, a slum with numerous pawnshops, factories, approximately 150 homes, Later 300 acres of land were transferred to Arlington National Cemetery and to Fort Myer, leaving 280 acres for the Pentagon. Contracts totaling $31,100,000 were finalized with McShain and the contractors on September 11
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The Pentagon in January 2008
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1945 map of the
Pentagon road network, including present-day
State Route 27 and part of the
Shirley Highway, as well as the
Main Navy and Munitions Buildings near the
Lincoln Memorial.
The Pentagon
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Main Navy Building (foreground) and the
Munitions Building were temporary structures built during
World War I on the
National Mall. The Munitions Building served as the Department of War headquarters for several years before moving into the Pentagon.
The Pentagon
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Southwest view of the Pentagon with the
Potomac River and
Washington Monument in background (1998).
2.
Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
Basketball
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Michael Jordan goes for a
slam dunk
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The first basketball court:
Springfield College
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The 1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with James Naismith at the back, right.
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A basketball game between the
Heart Mountain and Powell High School girls teams, Wyoming, March 1944
3.
Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference includes the public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H, in 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association. Big Ten member institutions are predominantly major flagship research universities with large financial endowments, large student enrollment is also a hallmark of Big Ten universities, as 12 of the 14 members feature enrollments of 30,000 or more students. Northwestern University, one of just two members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students, is the lone private university among Big Ten membership. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni, Big Ten universities engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year. Big Ten universities are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In 2014–2015, members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditures, Johns Hopkins University was invited in 2012 to join the Big Ten as an associate member participating in mens lacrosse only. In 2015, it was accepted as an associate member in womens lacrosse. Notre Dame is scheduled to join the Big Ten in 2017 as a member in mens ice hockey. Notes Notes Notes The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference, lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it. Full members Full members Sport Affiliate Other Conference Other Conference The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 mens and 14 womens NCAA sanctioned sports, Notes, * Notre Dame will join the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in mens ice hockey. It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent, ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in mens lacrosse, with womens lacrosse to follow in 2016. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams,2, Mens rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Mens Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008,3, Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. 4, Rifle is technically a mens sport, but mens, womens, Ohio State fields a coed team. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a meeting on February 8,1896
Big Ten Conference
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Iron Mountain, Michigan
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Iron Mountain is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,624 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Dickinson County, in the states Upper Peninsula. Iron Mountain was named for the iron ore found in the vicinity. Iron Mountain is the city of the Iron Mountain, MI-WI Micropolitan Statistical Area. It shares Woodward Avenue with the town, Kingsford. In addition, Iron Mountain is known for its pasties, Bocce Ball Tournaments, World Cup Ski Jumps, Iron Mountain was also named a Michigan Main Street community by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm in 2006. It is one of thirteen such communities in the State of Michigan in 2008. It is also the hometown of Michigan State University mens basketball coach Tom Izzo and former NFL head coach Steve Mariucci. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.04 square miles. Indian Trails provides daily intercity bus service between St. Ignace and Ironwood, Michigan, US2 runs east to Escanaba and west to Ironwood. US141 merges with US2 just east of the city and heads northward toward Crystal Falls, southbound it continues on to Green Bay, m-95 connects with Kingsford just to the south and with M-69 east at Randville about 14 miles north. The Iron Mountain area is served by Ford Airport, commercial air travel is provided by SkyWest Airlines, providing jet service as Delta Connection. Located three miles west of the city, the airport handles approximately 7,600 operations per year, with roughly 27% commercial service, 57% air taxi and 16% general aviation. The airport has a 6,501 foot asphalt runway with approved ILS, GPS and NDB approaches, as of the census of 2010, there were 7,624 people,3,362 households, and 2,025 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,034.5 inhabitants per square mile, there were 3,784 housing units at an average density of 513.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 96. 3% White,0. 5% African American,0. 6% Native American,0. 7% Asian,0. 3% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 6% of the population. 34. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.83. The median age in the city was 42.4 years
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Iron Mountain City Hall
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Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
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Carnegie library
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Northern Michigan Wildcats
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The Northern Michigan Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northern Michigan University, located in Marquette, Michigan, in NCAA intercollegiate sporting competitions. All of the teams compete at the Division II level with the exception of the ice hockey program. NMU has been a member of the GLIAC since 1987, Northern Michigans rivals in sports action are the two other major schools in the upper peninsula, Michigan Technological University, and Lake Superior State University. The winner of the football game between NMU and Michigan Tech is awarded the Miners Cup. The United States Olympic Training Site on the campus of Northern Michigan University is one of 16 Olympic training sites in the country, the NMU-OTS provides secondary and post-secondary educational opportunities for athletes while offering world-class training. With more than 70 resident athletes and coaches, the NMU-OTS is the second-largest Olympic training center in the United States, in terms of residents, the USOEC has more residential athletes than the Lake Placid and Chula Vista sites combined. Over the years, it has grown into a major contributor to the U. S. Olympic movement, current resident training programs include Greco-Roman wrestling and weightlifting. Athletes must be approved by the NMU-OTS, their governing body. NMU-OTS athletes attend NMU while training in their respective sports, although athletes are responsible for tuition at the in-state rate, they may receive the B. J. Stupak Scholarship to help cover expenses. On-campus NMU-OTS athletes live in NMU’s Meyland Hall, eat in campus dining halls, and train at the university’s Superior Dome
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The Academic Mall: (from left to right) a bridge coming from Jamrich Hall (behind camera), West Science, New Science Facility and the Learning Resource Center.
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Northern Michigan University
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A hayride passes through the heart of NMU's campus. Cohodas Hall can be seen in the background.
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A football signed by the 1978 Northern Michigan Wildcats football team
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Henry Iba Award
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The Henry Iba Award was established in 1959 to recognize the best college basketball coach of the year by the United States Basketball Writers Association. Five nominees are presented and the individual with the most votes receives the award, the award is named for Henry Iba, who coached at Oklahoma State from 1934 to 1970. Iba won the NCAA College Championship in 1945 and 1946 and coached the U. S. Olympic Teams to two medals in 1964 and 1968. The award is presented at the Oscar Robertson Trophy Breakfast on the Friday before the Final Four, legendary UCLA Bruins coach John Wooden has the most all–time selections with seven. Of the seven other coaches with multiple Henry Iba Awards, none have received it more than twice, not including Woodens seven awards, the school with the second–most winners is Ohio State, which has had two coaches win a total of three awards
Henry Iba Award
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John Wooden has the most awards (7).
Henry Iba Award
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Tony Bennett, the 2015 winner, has won the award at two different schools (
Virginia and
Washington State).
Henry Iba Award
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Bob Knight won twice while at
Indiana.
Henry Iba Award
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Roy Williams also won the award at two different schools (
Kansas and
North Carolina).
7.
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves as the sports most complete library, in addition to promoting and preserving the history of basketball, dedicated to Canadian physician and inventor of the sport James Naismith, it was opened and inducted its first class in 1959. As of the induction of the Class of 2016 on September 9,2016, the Naismith Hall of Fame was established in 1959 by Lee Williams, a former athletic director at Colby College. In the 1960s, the Basketball Hall of Fame struggled to raise money for the construction of its first facility. The Basketball Hall of Fames Board named four inductees in its first year, in addition to honoring those who contributed to basketball, the Hall of Fame sought to make contributions of its own. In 1979, the Hall of Fame sponsored the Tip-Off Classic and this Tip-Off Classic has been the start to the college basketball season ever since, and although it does not always take place in Springfield, Massachusetts, generally it returns every few years. In the 17 years that the original Basketball Hall of Fame operated at Springfield College, the popularity of the Basketball Hall of Fame necessitated that a new facility be constructed, and in 1985, an $11 million facility was built beside the scenic Connecticut River in Springfield. As the new hall opened, it also recognized women for the first time, with such as Senda Berenson Abbott. In 2002, the Basketball Hall of Fame moved again—albeit merely 100 yards south along Springfields riverfront—into a $47 million facility designed by renowned architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the buildings architecture features a metallic silver, basketball-shaped sphere flanked by two similarly symmetrical rhombuses. The dome is illuminated at night and features 80,000 square foot, including numerous restaurants, the second Basketball Hall of Fame was not torn down but rather converted into an LA Fitness health clubs. The current Basketball Hall of Fame features Center Court, a basketball court on which visitors can play. Inside the building there are a gallery, many interactive exhibits, several theaters. A large theater for ceremonies seats up to 300, the honorees inducted in 2002 included the Harlem Globetrotters and Magic Johnson, a five-time NBA champion, three-time NBA finals MVP and Olympic gold medalist. As of 2011, the current Basketball Hall of Fame has greatly exceeded attendance expectations, despite the new facilitys success, a logistical problem remains for the Basketball Hall of Fame and the City of Springfield. Urban planners at universities such as UMass Amherst have called for the I-91 to be moved, in 2010, the Urban Land Institute announced a plan to make the walk between Springfields Metro Center and the Hall of Fame easier. Since 2011, the induction process employs a total of seven committees to both screen and elect candidates, since 2011, the Veterans and International Committees also vote to directly induct one candidate for each induction class. Contributor Direct Election Committee Note that other committees may choose to elect contributors, for example, the 2014 class included two contributors. However, each screening committee is limited as to the number of candidates it can put forth to the Honors Committee—10 from the North American Committee, any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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A basketball sculpture soars into the sky above the Basketball Hall of Fame in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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The entrance to the former site of the Basketball Hall of Fame near
Metro Center Springfield.
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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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A map of all NCAA Division I basketball teams.
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Andy Katz
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Andy Katz is a senior college basketball journalist for ESPN. com. He has been working for ESPN since January 5,2000 and he is a regular sports analyst on College GameNight on ESPN. Katz earned a B. A. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, before Katz joined ESPN he was a sports reporter for The Fresno Bee. He also had worked at the Albuquerque Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Katz is responsible for reporting the latest sports news. He is also involved in speaking, engaging with fans, and appearing at meet, Andy Katz ESPN Bio Andy Katz on Twitter The IU Circus, Comic Relief Supplied by Greenspan and Katz. Blue Trolley Press & Surge Bucket Media
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Katz in November 2013
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President Obama fills out his picks for the NCAA Men's Div I Tournament with ESPN's Andy Katz.
President Barack Obama picked North Carolina to win the National Championship when he shared his "Barack-etology" with Katz on March 18, 2009. Other teams in his
Final Four were Pittsburgh,
Louisville, and
Memphis.
10.
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
ESPN
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ESPN headquarters in
Bristol, Connecticut
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ESPN
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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The Upper Peninsula is the northern of the two major peninsulas that make up the U. S. state of Michigan. It may also be referred to as the UP or Upper Michigan, the peninsula is bounded on the north by Lake Superior, on the east by the St. Marys River, on the southeast by Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and on the southwest by Wisconsin. The Upper Peninsula contains 29% of the area of Michigan. Residents are frequently called Yoopers and have a regional identity. Large numbers of French Canadian, Finnish, Swedish, Cornish, the peninsula includes the only counties in the United States where a plurality of residents claim Finnish ancestry. Ordered by size, the peninsulas largest cities are Marquette, Sault Ste, Marie, Escanaba, Menominee, Houghton, and Iron Mountain. The land and climate are not very suitable for agriculture because of the harsh winters. The economy has been based on logging, mining, and tourism, most mines have closed since the golden age from 1890 to 1920. The land is forested and logging remains a major industry. The first known inhabitants of the Upper Peninsula were tribes speaking Algonquian languages and they arrived roughly around A. D.800 and subsisted chiefly from fishing. Early tribes included the Menominee, Nocquet, and the Mishinimaki, Étienne Brûlé of France was probably the first European to visit the peninsula, crossing the St. Marys River around 1620 in search of a route to the Far East. French colonists laid claim to the land in the 17th century, establishing missions, following the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, the territory was ceded to Great Britain. Sault Ste Marie, Michigan is the oldest European settlement in Michigan, American Indian tribes formerly allied with the French were dissatisfied with the British occupation, which brought new territorial policies. Whereas the French cultivated alliances among the Indians, the British postwar approach was to treat the tribes as conquered peoples, in 1763, tribes united in Pontiacs Rebellion to try to drive the British from the area. In 1764, they began negotiations with the British which resulted in temporary peace, although the Upper Peninsula nominally became United States territory with the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the British did not give up control until 1797 under terms of the Jay Treaty. As an American territory, the Upper Peninsula was still dominated by the fur trade, john Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company on Mackinac Island in 1808, however, the industry began to decline in the 1830s as beaver and other game were overhunted. When the Michigan Territory was first established in 1805, it included only the Lower Peninsula, in 1819, the territory was expanded to include the remainder of the Upper Peninsula, all of Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. When Michigan was preparing for statehood in the 1830s, the boundaries proposed corresponded to the territorial boundaries
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The
Lake of the Clouds in the
Porcupine Mountains of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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The
Upper Falls of the
Tahquamenon River, near the northern shore of the peninsula.
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Smelter at Quincy Hill,
Hancock, Michigan circa 1906
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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
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Steve Mariucci
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Mariucci was born and raised in Iron Mountain, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he met best friend and current Michigan State University basketball head coach Tom Izzo. Both attended Iron Mountain High where they were teammates on the football, basketball, at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, where they were roommates, Mariucci was a three-time All-America quarterback. In 1975, he quarterbacked NMU to the NCAA Division II National Football Championship and he then went on to play two weeks with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League. He began his career at his alma mater, and moved to Cal State Fullerton. Mariuccis first pro position was as a coach for the United States Football Leagues Orlando Renegades in 1985. Later that fall, he had a stint with the Los Angeles Rams as quality control coach. He joined the USC staff in 1986 and he coached wide receiver Ken Henry to a season where he had 807 yards with 7 TD. WR Randy Tanner also had 408 yards with 3 TD and he then moved to the coaching staff at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. In 1987, WR Brian Bedford had 515 yards with 4 TD, WR Mike Ford had 479 yards with 3 TD. In 1989, WR Brian Treggs had 746 yards with 4 TD, in 1990 and 1991, he served as the Golden Bears offensive coordinator. Quarterback Mike Pawlawski threw for 2,069 yards with 17 TDs, in 1991, QB Mike Pawlawski threw for 2,517 yards with 21 TD and RB Russell White ran for 1,177 yards with 14 TD. WR Sean Dawkins had 723 yards with 11 TD, in 1992, he was appointed as quarterback coach for the Green Bay Packers. After four years as coach for the Packers, Mariucci returned to Cal as head coach in 1996 where the team finished 6–6. Following his season with the Golden Bears, Mariucci was considered a candidate for several National Football League coaching positions. Mariuccis 1997 team went 13–3 during the season, earning home-field advantage in the National Football Conference. The defeat was the 49ers fourth NFC title loss of the 1990s, following losses to the New York Giants in 1990 and the Dallas Cowboys in 1992 and 1993. In 1998, the 49ers posted a 12–4 record and returned to the playoffs as a wild card team, two losing seasons followed, but in 2001, the 49ers returned to the playoffs after a 12–4 season, once again to be eliminated by the Packers. Mariuccis final season in San Francisco was 2002, the 49ers won the NFC West with a 10–6 record and beat the New York Giants in a controversial wild-card game, posting the third-biggest comeback playoff victory in NFL history
Steve Mariucci
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Mariucci at the
2011 NFL Draft
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Northern Michigan University
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Northern Michigan University is a four-year college public university established in 1899 and located in Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan. With enrollment of about 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, when it opened in 1899, NMU enrolled thirty-two students who were taught by six faculty members in rented rooms in Marquette city hall. Throughout the schools first half-century, education and teacher training was schools primary focus, during this time, the school built the native sandstone buildings Kaye and Peter White Halls, as well as a manual training school next to the campus buildings, J. D. Pierce School. During this time, enrollment grew, due in part to the 1957 opening of the Mackinac Bridge that links the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. Accredited undergraduate and graduate programs are offered by the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business. Graduate education began in 1928 when courses at the degree level were offered in cooperation with the University of Michigan. NMU has four divisions, College of Arts and Sciences Walker L. Cisler College of Business. 112 of these rooms seat at least 30 students, there are 63 general use classrooms which can be scheduled for multiple disciplines. All but 4 general-purpose rooms are smart classrooms fitted with technology for projecting images, there are 14 tiered classrooms,10 of which are considered lecture halls with a seat-count of at least 90. The largest lecture hall, Jamrich 102, seats 501, there are 58 labs covering the gamut of arts and sciences. There are 28 departmental classrooms,16 of which are smart, there are 3 distance learning facilities, the largest of which is Mead Auditorium which seats 100. The DeVos Art Museum displays 10–12 exhibitions per year of international, national, regional. At over 4,000 square feet it is the largest art gallery on campus, the 60, 000-square-foot facility contains an Olympic-size ice sheet and seats over 4,000 for hockey events. The Berry Events Center was built on the site of the former Memorial Stadium, Cohodas Hall The tallest building on campus, Cohodas Hall houses administrative offices and the College of Business. Completed in 1975, the stands on the site of Northerns original campus. It is named after U. P. banker and philanthropist Sam M. Cohodas, Forest Roberts Theatre The 500-seat Forest Roberts Theatre is named after a former head of the Speech department. The theatre has a lighting system and modern sound system. Performances of up to five major productions per year are held in this facility
Northern Michigan University
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The Academic Mall: (from left to right) a bridge coming from Jamrich Hall (behind camera), West Science, New Science Facility and the Learning Resource Center.
Northern Michigan University
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Northern Michigan University
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A hayride passes through the heart of NMU's campus. Cohodas Hall can be seen in the background.
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A football signed by the 1978 Northern Michigan Wildcats football team
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Marquette, Michigan
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Marquette is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula, Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, known primarily for shipping iron ore, and is the home of Northern Michigan University. In 2012, Marquette was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U. S. by CBS MoneyWatch, the land around Marquette was known to French missionaries of the early 17th century and the trappers of the early 19th century. Development of the area did not begin, however, until 1844, in 1845, Jackson Mining Company, the first organized mining company in the region, was formed. The village of Marquette began on September 14,1849, with the formation of a second iron concern, the village was at first called New Worcester, with Harlow as the first postmaster. On August 21,1850, the name was changed to honor Jacques Marquette, a second post office, named Carp River, was opened on October 13,1851 by Peter White, who had gone there with Graveraet at age 18. Harlow closed his post office in August 1852, the Marquette Iron Company failed, while its successor, the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, flourished and had the village platted in 1854. The plat was recorded by Peter White, whites office was renamed as Marquette in April 1856, and the village was incorporated in 1859. It was incorporated as a city in 1871, during the 1850s, Marquette was linked by rail to numerous mines and became the leading shipping center of the Upper Peninsula. The first ore pocket dock, designed by a town leader. By 1862, the city had a population of over 1,600, in the late 19th century, during the height of iron mining, Marquette became nationally known as a summer haven. Visitors brought in by Great Lakes passenger steamships filled the citys hotels, the base closed in September 1995, and is now the countys Sawyer International Airport. Marquette continues to be a port for hematite ores and, today, enriched iron ore pellets, from nearby mines. About 7.9 million gross tons of pelletized iron ore passed through Marquettes Presque Isle Harbor in 2005, the Roman Catholic Bishop Frederic Baraga is buried at St. Peters Cathedral, which is the center for the Diocese of Marquette. In addition to the Marquette #1 Post Office there is the Northern Michigan University Bookstore Contract Station #384. The first day of issue of a card showing Bishop Frederic Baraga took place in Marquette on June 29,1984. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 19.45 square miles. The city includes several islands in Lake Superior
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Front Street in downtown Marquette, 1909
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Statue of
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St. Peter Cathedral
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Lake Superior shore at Presque Isle Park in winter
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NCAA Division II
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Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environment offered in Division III, before 1973, the NCAAs smaller schools were grouped together in the College Division. In 1973, the College Division split in two when the NCAA began using numeric designations for its competitions, nationally, ESPN televises the championship game in football, CBS televises the mens basketball championship, and ESPN2 televises the womens basketball championship. CBS Sports Network broadcasts six football games on Thursdays during the regular season, the official slogan of NCAA Division II, implemented in 2015, is Make It Yours. There are currently 300 full and 20 provisional members of Division II with seven institutions moving to full membership in September 2015, Division II schools tend to be smaller public universities and many private institutions. A large minority of Division II institutions have fewer than 2,499 students, only six institutions have more than 15,000 students. Division II has a membership, with two active member institutions in Alaska and four in Hawaii. Additionally, it is the division that has member institutions in Puerto Rico. Simon Fraser University became the first institution outside the US to enter the NCAA membership process and this occurred after the Division II Membership Committee accepted the institutions application during a July 7–9 meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. Simon Fraser, located in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, prospective members also must complete at least one year of provisional status before being accepted as full-time Division II members. In the fall of 2012, the NCAA Presidents Council officially approved Simon Fraser University as the organizations first international member. Division II institutions have to sponsor at least five sports for men and five for women, for sports other than football and basketball there are no scheduling requirements. There are not attendance requirements for football, nor arena size requirements for basketball, there are maximum financial aid awards for each sport, as well as a separate limit on financial aid awards in mens sports, that a Division II school must not exceed. Division II teams usually feature a number of local or in-state student-athletes, many Division II student-athletes pay for school through a combination of scholarship money, grants, student loans and employment earnings. Division II athletics programs are financed in the institutions budget like other departments on campus. Traditional rivalries with regional institutions dominate schedules of many Division II athletics programs, Athletic scholarships are offered in most sponsored sports at most institutions, but with more stringent limits as to the numbers offered in any one sport than at the Division I level. For example, Division II schools may give financial aid in football equivalent to 36 full scholarships, two exceptions to this rule currently exist. First, football players transferring from a Division I FBS school to a Division I FCS school do not have to sit out a year
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Main logo used by the NCAA in Division I, II, and III.
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University of Tulsa
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The University of Tulsa is a private university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The university is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The university is renowned for its programs in law, English, computer science, natural sciences, psychology and its faculty includes prominent scholars, scientists, and writers, including Russian dissident poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, political scientist Robert Donaldson and others. The campuss design is predominantly Collegiate Gothic, the university manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the largest collections of American Western art in the world, and in 2016, The Bob Dylan Archive was placed at the university. TUs athletic teams are known as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The Presbyterian School for Girls was founded in Muskogee, Indian Territory, in 1894, the young school expanded to become Henry Kendall College, named in honor of Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The first president was William A. Caldwell, who served a brief, Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, granted the first post-secondary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898. Under King, the college was moved from its location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by Creek Nation Chief Pleasant Porter. The opening of the new campus coincided with the start of the tenure of the third president, over the next ten years, Evans oversaw the struggling schools growth. At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees, when the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate. The Tulsa Commercial Club decided to bid for the college, Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included, B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall, stebbins, Rev. Charles W. Kerr, C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000,20 acres of real estate, the school opened to thirty-five students in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma became a state. These first students attended classes at the First Presbyterian Church until permanent buildings could be erected on the new campus and this became the start of higher education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was completed in 1908 and was followed by two other buildings. All three buildings have since demolished, with Kendall the last to be razed in 1972. The bell that hung in the Kendall Building tower was saved and displayed in Bayless Plaza. In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed building a college in Tulsa, the proposed college was to be named McFarlin College
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Skelly House, Official residence for the President of the University of Tulsa.
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The University of Tulsa
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"The Old U" as seen from S Delaware Ave.
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Chapman Stadium
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Siena College
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Siena College is an independent Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Loudonville, Albany County, New York, United States. Siena is a four-year, coeducational, independent college in the Franciscan tradition, founded by the Order of Friars Minor and it has 3,000 full-time students and offers undergraduate degrees in business, liberal arts, and sciences. The college was named after Saint Bernardino of Siena, a 15th-century Italian Franciscan friar, St. Bernardine of Siena Friary is located on campus. The current president of the college is Br. F. Edward Coughlin, O. F. M, as the 1930s were winding to a close, Fr. Thomas Plassmann, OFM, President of St. Bonaventure College in Western New York, the campus includes, Siena Hall The main college building, housing classrooms and administrator and faculty offices. The cupola at the top is used as the symbol of the college, appearing on the logo and most printed. J. Roger Bacon Hall Houses the School of Science offices and classrooms as well as the Computer Science, Psychology, Mathematics, morrell Science Center Attached to Roger Bacon Hall and built in 2001, it houses the chemistry, biochemistry and biology departments. Kiernan Hall Classrooms and faculty offices, notable for the design, the first floor consist of two sections separated by an outdoor walkway, with the second floor bridging the two sections. Foy Hall Home to the arts department, campus theatre. Marcelle Athletic Complex Athletic offices and facilities, when the first townhouses were proposed the Newtonville Homeowners Association unsuccessfully sued to block construction. Subsequent construction has not been controversial thanks to the board including the Newtonville Homeowners Association in the decision making process. A Friary provides housing for the Franciscan friars that are involved with the campus, students are involved in a number of wide, specific, academic related, recreational, leadership building, and diverse organizations and clubs or campus. There are currently 85 organizations on campus, each with their own campus, local, each organization has Executive Board positions which allows students to lead, develop, and set a plan of direction for their impact. The Siena College Student Senate serves as a liaison between faculty, administration, and students and it works to present and to interpret students’ attitudes, opinions, and rights to the teaching faculty and administration. The Senate is charged with the oversight of clubs and the distribution of the student activities fees, while Senate does not directly control college academic or social policies, it continues to work with a group of cooperative administrators to shape them in ways that will benefit the community. Both the Senate and the keep what is best for the students as their top priority. The Student Senate has an Executive Board including President, Vice President, Secretary, the rest of the Senate is Representatives, Hall and Town House Representatives, and Commuter Representatives. Student Senate is the body for all clubs and organizations on campus
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Siena guard Ronald Moore
dribbles toward the basket in a game against
Loyola in January 2010.
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Erich Hartmann, President,
Magnum Photos
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George Deukmejian,
35th Governor of California
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John Calipari
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John Vincent Calipari is an American college basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the coach at the University of Kentucky. Calipari was previously the coach at the University of Memphis. He was also the coach of the National Basketball Associations New Jersey Nets. Calipari has been to four Final Fours with Kentucky, Calipari is the only head coach to have Final Four appearances vacated at more than one school. As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons, eight 30-win seasons and he has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times and led Kentucky to its eighth NCAA Championship in 2012. Calipari was born in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Calipari lettered two years at UNC Wilmington before transferring to Clarion University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a bachelors degree in marketing. He played point guard at Clarion during the 1981 and 1982 seasons, leading the team in assists, from 1982 to 1985, Calipari was an assistant at the University of Kansas under Ted Owens and Larry Brown. Calipari had several jobs as the lowest coach in the order when Ted Owens hired him as a volunteer assistant for the Jayhawks 1982–83 season. I was blessed to have the chance, can you imagine being 22,23 and your first opportunity to be around the game is at a program like Kansas. From 1985 to 1988, he was an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh under Paul Evans, from 1988 to 1996, he was head coach at the University of Massachusetts. From 1996 to 1999, he was coach and Executive VP of basketball operations for the NBAs New Jersey Nets. During the 1999–2000 season, he was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers under coach Larry Brown and he was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Calipari is famous for popularizing the dribble drive motion offense, developed by Vance Walberg, in his 22 official seasons as a collegiate head coach, Caliparis record is 593–174. His record in the month of March is 107–37 and his NCAA adjusted official record in the NCAA tournament is 38–12, and in the NIT is 15–6. As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons and 9 30-win seasons and he has also coached 6 teams to the NIT, winning the NIT Championship at Memphis in 2002. He is one of four coaches in NCAA Division I history to direct three different schools to a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. From 1988 to 1996 at UMass, Calipari led the Minutemen program to five consecutive Atlantic 10 titles and NCAA Tournament appearances and he finished with a 193–71 record overall, with a 91–41 record in Atlantic 10 conference games
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Calipari at Wizards game in 2014
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Calipari directing his players during an away game against
Conference USA rival
University of Houston in January 2007.
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Tom Izzo and Calipari, two of the highest paid college coaches in 2012, talk while scouting a blue chip recruit
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Ben Howland
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Benjamin Clark Howland is an American college basketball coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and former player. Howland became the first mens coach in college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title. He is one of the few NCAA Division I coaches to take three different teams to the NCAA tournament, Northern Arizona, Pittsburgh, and UCLA. Born in Lebanon, Oregon, Howland first attended Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, for a year transferred to Cerritos High School in Cerritos. While at Cerritos, he was a two-time All-CIF and two-time Suburban League Most Valuable Player in basketball, after high school Howland played college basketball for Santa Barbara City College then transferred to Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, a member of the Big Sky Conference. Known as a defensive specialist, he played professional basketball in Uruguay. He earned a degree in physical education at Weber State. 1972-73, Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, California 1973-76, Cerritos High School, Cerritos, California 1976-78, Santa Barbara City College, led the Vaqueros to California State finals in 1978. 1978-80, Weber State College, named WSCs defensive MVP both years and led Wildcats to consecutive Big Sky titles and NCAA Tournament appearances in 1979 and 1980,1980, Played professionally in Bohemios First Division Uruguay, South America. Howland wanted to be a coach since his years living in Santa Barbara. At the age of twenty-four, he became an assistant at Gonzaga. His childhood friend Jay Hillock, the new coach, recruited Howland. At Gonzaga, one of Howlands duties was to guard future NBA all-star John Stockton in practice, after a year at Gonzaga, Howland got his first paid coaching job at the University of California, Santa Barbara as an assistant coach to Ed DeLacy. After Jerry Pimm replaced DeLacy in 1983, Howland helped Pimm lead the Gauchos to five appearances between 1988 and 1994. Starting in 1992, Howland applied for head coaching jobs at UC Irvine, Howlands first head coaching job was at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Under Howland, Northern Arizona captured the Big Sky Conference Championship in the 1996-97 season and he then led the Lumberjacks to the Big Sky Tournament Championship the following year, sending them to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. While at NAU, he was considered for head coaching jobs at UC Irvine again and at UCSB and he later ended up replacing Ralph Willard at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Big East Conference. He also took Pitt to three straight Big East Championship games, winning the 2003 tournament title, the first in school history, in 2002, Howland also earned several national coach-of-the-year awards
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Howland with
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University of Michigan basketball scandal
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As a result of the investigation, the Wolverine mens basketball program was punished with sanctions. The violations principally involved payments booster Martin made to players to launder money from an illegal gambling operation. It is one of the largest incidents involving payments to athletes in American collegiate history. An initial investigation by the school was joined by the NCAA, Big Ten Conference, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, several Michigan basketball players were implicated over the next few years and by 1999 some were called before a federal grand jury. Four eventual professional basketball players—Chris Webber, Maurice Taylor, Robert Traylor, during the investigation, Webber claimed not to have had any financial relationship with Martin, but eventually confessed to taking loans from Martin. He was both fined in the system and briefly suspended by the National Basketball Association after performing public service. In 1997, coach Steve Fisher was fired for his involvement in violations relating to the scandal, subsequently, the NCAA investigation did not find him culpable of significant wrongdoing related to the scandal. By the fall of 2002, it was obvious that the four players were in fact guilty of taking money from Martin, in response, Michigan placed the basketball program on two years probation. It also withdrew from consideration for the 2002–03 season, vacated all or part of five past seasons and removed the players names. The additional year of post-season ineligibility was overturned on appeal, mandatory disassociations with the surviving players ended on May 8,2013. Among the passengers was high school star Mateen Cleaves, who was on his recruiting visit. When an investigation revealed that the trip included a visit to Ed Martins home, Martin was reportedly returning to Ann Arbor from Detroit with Traylor, Taylor, Cleaves, Willie Mitchell, Bullock, and Ron Oliver after a party that included drugs, strippers and alcohol. By some accounts the party was hosted by Martin, but by other accounts Martins house was a stop on the way to a party at Detroits Westin Hotel, Martin, a retired Ford Motor Company electrician, provided all the players with money. During the rollover accident, Traylor broke his arm and was lost for the season, Mitchell transferred from Michigan to the University of Alabama-Birmingham after his junior season. Bullock, Cleaves, Taylor, and Traylor all went on to be drafted by National Basketball Association teams, Bullock played in various foreign leagues but never in the NBA. The NCAA uses a statute of limitations of four years, thus, at any time the NCAA can open or re-open an investigation for an infraction occurring within the last four years. However, NCAA convention is to date based on when they learned about the infraction. Thus, events that had occurred far more than four years prior to the investigation came under its purview, the initial accident reports revealed several inconsistencies and violations that induced expanded investigation
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Crisler Arena is the home of
Michigan Wolverines men's basketball.
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Academic degree
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An academic degree is a qualification awarded on successful completion of a course of study in higher education, normally at a college or university. These institutions commonly offer degrees at various levels, typically including bachelors, master’s and doctorates, often alongside other academic certificates, and professional degrees. The most common degree is the bachelors degree, although in some countries lower qualifications are titled degrees while in others a higher-level first degree is more usual. The degrees awarded by European universities—the bachelor’s degree, the licentiate, the degree. The doctorate appeared in medieval Europe as a license to teach at a medieval university and its roots can be traced to the early church when the term doctor referred to the Apostles, church fathers and other Christian authorities who taught and interpreted the Bible. The right to grant a licentia docendi was originally reserved to the church required the applicant to pass a test, to take oath of allegiance. The Third Council of the Lateran of 1179 guaranteed the access – now largely free of charge – of all able applicants, at the university, doctoral training was a form of apprenticeship to a guild. The traditional term of study before new teachers were admitted to the guild of Master of Arts, originally the terms master and doctor were synonymous, but over time the doctorate came to be regarded as a higher qualification than the master degree. The earliest doctoral degrees reflected the historical separation of all higher University study into three fields. Over time, the D. D. has gradually become less common outside theology, Studies outside theology, law, and medicine were then called philosophy, due to the Renaissance conviction that real knowledge could be derived from empirical observation. The degree title of Doctor of Philosophy is of a later time. Studies in what once was called philosophy are now classified as sciences and humanities, Master of Arts were eligible to enter study under the higher faculties of Law, Medicine or Theology, and earn first a bachelors and then master or doctors degrees in these subjects. Thus a degree was only a step on the way to becoming a qualified master – hence the English word graduate. The naming of degrees eventually became linked with the subjects studied, scholars in the faculties of arts or grammar became known as master, but those in theology, medicine, and law were known as doctor. As study in the arts or in grammar was a prerequisite to study in subjects such as theology, medicine and law. The practice of using the doctor for PhDs developed within German universities. The French terminology is tied closely to the meanings of the terms. The baccalauréat is conferred upon French students who have completed their secondary education
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Meeting of doctors at the
University of Paris (16th-century miniature)
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Atlanta Hawks
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The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a team of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its games at Philips Arena. The teams origins can be traced to the establishment of the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 in Buffalo, New York, after 38 days in Buffalo, the team moved to Moline, Illinois, where they were renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the merger between the NBL and the Basketball Association of America, and had Red Auerbach as coach briefly, in 1951, Kerner moved the team to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. Kerner and the team moved again in 1955 to St. Louis, the Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals. The St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta in 1968, when Kerner sold the franchise to Thomas Cousins, the Hawks currently own the second-longest drought of not winning an NBA championship at 57 seasons. The franchises lone NBA championship, as well as all four NBA Finals appearances, meanwhile, they went 48 years without advancing past the second round of the playoffs in any format, until finally breaking through in 2015. Much of the failure theyve experienced in the postseason can be traced back to their history in the NBA draft. Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted four players who have been chosen to play in an NBA All-Star Game. Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft, the origins of the Atlanta Hawks can be traced to the Buffalo Bisons franchise, which was founded in 1946. The Bisons were a member of the National Basketball League, the club was organized by the Erie County American Legion and was coached by Nat Hickey. Their first game – a 50–39 victory over the Syracuse Nationals – was played on November 8,1946, on the team was William Pop Gates, who, along with William Dolly King, was one of the first two African-American players in the NBL. The team, which needed to draw 3,600 fans per game to break even struggled to draw 1,000 fans per game to the Auditorium. Upon relocation to Moline, the team was renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, and played their games at Wharton Field House. The team featured guard/forward and coach Deanglo King, and was owned by Leo Ferris, Pop Gates remained on the Blackhawks roster, and finished second on the team in scoring behind future 1948 NBL MVP Don Otten. A Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member, Gates helped to integrate the league and later become the first African-American coach in a sports league. In 1949 the Blackhawks became one of the National Basketball Associations 17 original teams after a merger of the 12-year-old NBL and they reached the playoffs in the NBAs inaugural year under the leadership of coach Red Auerbach
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Steve Smith was one of the Hawks' cornerstone players during the mid-to-late 1990s, helping lead Atlanta to three
Conference Semi-Finals appearances
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Chicago Bulls
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The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January 16,1966, the team plays its home games at the United Center, an arena shared with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. The Bulls saw their greatest success during the 1990s and they are known for having one of the NBAs greatest dynasties, winning six NBA championships between 1991 and 1998 with two three-peats. All six championship teams were led by Hall of Famers Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, the Bulls are the only NBA franchise to win multiple championships and never lose an NBA Finals series in their history. The Bulls won 72 games during the 1995–96 NBA season, setting an NBA record that stood until the Golden State Warriors won 73 games during the 2015–16 NBA season. The Bulls were the first team in NBA history to win 70 games or more in a season. Many experts and analysts consider the 1996 Bulls to be one of the greatest teams in NBA history, Michael Jordan and Derrick Rose have both won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award while playing for the Bulls, for a total of six MVP awards. The Bulls share rivalries with the Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, the Bulls rivalry with the Pistons was highlighted heavily during the late 1980s and early 1990s. On January 16,1966 Chicago was granted an NBA franchise to be called the Bulls, the Chicago Bulls became the third NBA franchise in the city, after the Chicago Stags and the Chicago Packers/Zephyrs. The Bulls founder, Dick Klein, was the Bulls only owner to play professional basketball. He served as the Bulls president and general manager in their initial years, after the 1966 NBA Expansion Draft, the newly founded Chicago Bulls were allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league for the upcoming 1966–67 season. The team started in the 1966–67 NBA season, and posted the best record by a team in NBA history. In their first two seasons, the Bulls played most of their games at the International Amphitheatre, before moving to Chicago Stadium. Fan interest was diminishing after four seasons, with one game in the 1967–68 NBA season having an attendance of 891. The Bulls under Williams and head coach Dick Motta qualified for four straight playoffs and had attendances grow to over 10,000, in 1972, the Bulls set a franchise win-loss record at 57 wins and 25 losses. During the 1970s, the Bulls relied on Jerry Sloan, forwards Bob Love and Chet Walker, point guard Norm Van Lier, the team made the conference finals in 1975 but lost to the Golden State Warriors,4 games to 3. After four 50-win seasons, Williams returned to Philadelphia, and Motta decided to become GM as well, the Bulls ended up declining, winning only 24 games in the 1975–1976 season
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Michael Jordan was drafted third overall by the Bulls in
1984. He won six championships and six
Finals MVPs for Chicago.
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United Center
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Scottie Pippen
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Cleveland Cavaliers
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The Cleveland Cavaliers, also known as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division, the team began play in 1970. Many past and present top NBA players, including LeBron James, Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, the franchise has won five Central Division championships, three Eastern Conference championships, one NBA championship, and have reached the playoffs 20 times in their 46-year history. The 2016 NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors marked the first time in Finals history a team had come back to win the series after trailing three games to one, the Cavaliers began play in 1970 as an expansion team. Their 46-year history has been marked by stretches of strong play and periods of poor play. In the 1970s, under the ownership of Nick Mileti, the team won its first division title in 1976 and they won Game 7, 87–85, on a shot by Snyder with four seconds to go. Injuries, particularly an ankle injury to Chones, led to this teams demise, as the Cavaliers would lose the Eastern Conference Finals to the Boston Celtics, 4–2. It is widely believed among both Cavaliers fans and players that the Miracle team would have won the 1976 NBA Championship had Chones stayed healthy, the remainder of the 1970s were marked by early playoff losses and eventually Fitchs resignation. The early 1980s were marked by Ted Stepiens ownership, Stepien also oversaw the hiring and firing of a succession of coaches and was involved in making a number of poor trade and free agent signing decisions. The ensuing chaos had an effect on both the Cavaliers on-court performance and lack of local support, losing over 50 games in three straight years. The 1981–82 and 1982–83 combined to lose 24 straight games, which at the time was the NBAs all-time longest losing streak, george and Gordon Gund purchased the Cavaliers from Stepien in 1983. The team was in a transition as they went through nine head coaches from 1980 to 1986, during the 1986 offseason, the Cavaliers acquired Brad Daugherty, Mark Price, Ron Harper and Larry Nance. The Cavaliers entered into a period of decline from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, the team appeared in the playoffs the next two years, but could not get past the first round. In the 1997 off-season, the team added Shawn Kemp and Wesley Person, as well as a class that included Derek Anderson, Cedric Henderson, Žydrūnas Ilgauskas. This team lost in the first round of the playoffs in 1998, in the early 2000s, the team added Andre Miller, Lamond Murray, Chris Mihm and Carlos Boozer, but could not make it to the playoffs. The 2002–03 season saw the Cavaliers finish 17–65, tied for the worst record in the NBA, the Cavaliers luck changed as they landed the number 1 pick in the 2003 NBA draft. With it, the team selected heralded forward and future NBA MVP LeBron James, in 2005, the team would be sold to businessman Dan Gilbert. That year, the team also hired head coach Mike Brown, over the next few years, the Cavaliers built a team around James and Žydrūnas Ilgauskas by adding players including Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes, and Anderson Varajao
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Austin Carr —the first overall pick in the
1971 NBA draft, a 1974
NBA All-Star, and longtime TV color analyst for the Cavs
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Brad Daugherty, the first overall pick in the
1986 NBA draft and a five-time
NBA All-Star for the Cavs
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Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, a Cavs
1996 first-round draft pick, a two-time
NBA All Star for the Cavs, and the team's all-time leader in games played, rebounds, and blocked shots. He is currently a Special Advisor for the Cavaliers.
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New Jersey Nets
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The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its games at Barclays Center. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York City, the other are the New York Knicks, the team was established in 1967 as a charter franchise of the NBAs rival league, the American Basketball Association. They played in New Jersey as the New Jersey Americans during their first season, before moving to Long Island in 1968, during this time, the Nets won two ABA championships. In 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA, and the Nets were absorbed into the NBA along with three other ABA teams, in 1977, the team returned to New Jersey and played as the New Jersey Nets from 1977 to 2012. During this time, the Nets won two consecutive Eastern Conference championships, but failed to win a league title, in the summer of 2012, the team moved to Barclays Center, and took its current geographic name. The Brooklyn Nets were founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey, in its early years, the team led a nomadic existence, moving to Long Island in 1968 and playing in various arenas there as the New York Nets. Led by Hall of Famer Julius Dr. J Erving, the Nets won two ABA championships in New York before becoming one of four ABA teams to be admitted into the NBA as part of the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. The team then moved back to New Jersey in 1977 and became the New Jersey Nets, the Boston Celtics were once rivals of the Nets during the early 2000s because of their respective locations and their burgeoning stars. The Nets were led by Jason Kidd and Kenyon Martin, while the Celtics were experiencing newfound success behind Paul Pierce, the rivalry began to heat up in the 2002 Eastern Conference Finals, which was preceded by trash-talking from the Celtics who claimed Martin was a fake tough guy. Things progressed as the series started, and on-court tensions seemed to spill into the stands, celtic fans berated Kidd and his family with chants of Wife Beater. in response to Kidds 2001 domestic abuse charge. When the series returned to New Jersey, Nets fans responded, referring to a night club incident in 2000 in which Pierce was stabbed 11 times. When asked about the fan barbs being traded, Kenyon Martin stated, Our fans hate them, rondo was suspended for two games in the aftermath, while Wallace and Kevin Garnett were fined. The story was revisited on December 25, when Wallace grabbed Garnetts shorts and this move was billed as a merger of the two Atlantic Division teams. Celtics announcer Sean Grande said Its almost as if you found a home for these guys. You couldnt have found a better place and these guys will be in the New York market, theyll be on a competitive team, theyll stay on national TV. Its funny, because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so with Celtics fans feeling the way they do about the Heat, feeling the way they do about the Knicks, the Nets are going to become almost the second team now
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Cover to BrooklyKnight #1, distributed at the Brooklyn Nets home opener. Art by
Mike Deodato.
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Mikhail Prokhorov, a Russian billionaire and current owner of the Nets
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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump
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The April 14, 2015 front page of USA Today. The blue circle of the logo has been turned into a dotted ring with a hat being tossed into it to signify
Marco Rubio's announcement that he is running for
President of the United States.
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This February 5, 2009 issue of USA Today shows the old layout and logo of the paper prior to it being redesigned in 2012.
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USA Today is headquartered in
Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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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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Bob Knight in 2008
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Knight with young fans at
Frank Truitt 's house in
Columbus, summer of 1988
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Knight watches his team practice in November 2007.
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Knight (right) with Krzyzewski
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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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Williams courtside at the
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Jason Richardson
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Jason Anthoney Richardson is an American retired professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Michigan State University. He won the NBA Dunk Contest in both 2002 and 2003, becoming the player, after Michael Jordan, to win the competition back-to-back. Richardson has also played for the Charlotte Bobcats, Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic, born in Saginaw, Michigan, Richardson graduated from Arthur Hill High School in 1999. Having led the Arthur Hill basketball team to the Class A championship game, Richardson was Mr. Basketball of Michigan, Richardson chose to play college basketball for Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo. In his freshman season at Michigan State, Richardson averaged 5.1 points per game in 37 games, led by Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson, the Spartans won the NCAA Championship with Richardson as a key reserve. In a bigger role in his season at Michigan State. Richardson played along future NBA players Zach Randolph and Charlie Bell as the Spartans advanced to the Final Four before losing to Arizona and he was named Big Ten First Team that year. The Warriors drafted Jason Richardson out of Michigan State with the 5th overall pick, Richardson competed in the Rookie Challenge as a rookie in 2002 and a sophomore in 2003. His teams won both years, and he was awarded the Rookie Challenge MVP as a rookie. As a sophomore, he had a moment when, in the closing seconds of the game, he bounced the ball off Carlos Boozers forehead. During his time with Golden State, Richardson gained popularity for his scoring, ability to dunk, dedication to the team and fans. As the long time captain of the Warriors, Richardson organized a letter of apology to Warrior fans in 2005 after the failed to make the playoffs for the 12th straight season. The letter ran in several Bay Area newspapers, the following year, Richardson helped lead the Warriors to their first playoff trip in 13 years. The Warriors upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in the first round, Richardson set the Warrior franchise record for three-pointers made in a game without missing in a home win against the Phoenix Suns. Richardson is especially known for his abilities and is widely regarded as one of the best dunkers in 2000s. He won the NBA Slam Dunk Contests in 2002 and 2003, and also competed in the 2004 contest, but lost to Fred Jones in the finals. On June 28,2007, Richardson was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats along with the rights to 36th pick Jermareo Davidson for the draft rights to eighth pick Brandan Wright
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Richardson with the Magic
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Richardson during his tenure with the Suns.
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Richardson making a lay-up.
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Zach Randolph
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Zachary McKenley Randolph is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. Nicknamed Z-Bo, the two-time NBA All-Star played college basketball for Michigan State University before being drafted in the 2001 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers, Randolph grew up in Marion, Indiana and attended Marion High School, where his coach was Moe Smedley. As a sophomore, he helped lead the Marion Giants to the 1998 Indiana Class 4A Championship Game, as a senior, he again led his team to the state championship game in which Marion High School won its seventh state basketball championship. After high school, Randolph attended and played basketball for Michigan State University coached by Tom Izzo and his teammates at MSU included Jason Richardson and Charlie Bell. After his freshman season, he entered the 2001 NBA draft and he was drafted by the Blazers in the first round in 2001. At the time, the Trail Blazers had acquired the nickname Jail-Blazers due to the bad reputation of individuals on the roster, continuing on from his college career, he remained in the power forward position. In 2004 he won the NBAs Most Improved Player award, after which he signed a 6-year, Randolph averaged 23.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per game in the 2006–07 season, which was cut short in March 2007 due to a hand injury. In what would turn out to be his final game as a Trail Blazer, in his six seasons with Portland, he averaged 16.0 points and 7. On July 2,2007, Randolph was introduced at a conference in New York. He played 11 games with the Knicks before being traded in 2008, in his time in New York, Randolph averaged 18.0 points and 10.6 rebounds per game. During a game against the Phoenix Suns on February 17,2009, Randolph was ejected, Randolph finished the 2008–09 season with the Clippers before being traded again. In his 39 games with the Clippers, he averaged 20.9 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, on July 17,2009, he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Quentin Richardson. Randolph was selected for his first NBA All Star Game in 2010, the series marked the first four wins in franchise playoff history for the Grizzlies and the first time the franchise won a playoff series. In the decisive game, Randolph scored a then playoff career-high 31 points. On April 18,2011, Randolph agreed to an extension with the Grizzlies worth $71 million. Later, Randolph was named to the All-NBA Third Team for the first time in his career, Randolph then led the Grizzlies to an opening game win in their second-round playoff series, posting a playoff-career-high 34 points as the Grizzlies defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 114–101. However, the Grizzlies fell in the round after losing game 7 to the Thunder. In 2012, Randolph and the Grizzlies faced the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs, the Grizzlies lost the series in seven games
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Randolph with the Grizzlies in November 2013
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Randolph in 2009.
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Paul Davis (basketball)
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Paul Davis is an American retired professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 11 in, he played at the power forward, Davis started his career at Reuther Middle School where his number has been retired. Davis played for Rochester High School, earning Mr. Basketball of Michigan honors in 2002, as a center for the Michigan State Spartans, he finished the 2005 season as the NCAA Tournaments leading rebounder. Davis was ranked as the number three center by Lindys College Basketball and the nations number five post man by Athlon Sports. In his senior season, he averaged 17.5 points,9.1 rebounds,1.6 assists,1 steal and 0.9 blocks, while also shooting 87% from the free-throw line, Paul finished his college career with 1,718 points. On April 2,2009, Paul appeared on the Bravo show Millionaire Matchmaker, on June 28,2006, Davis was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2006 NBA draft with the 34th pick. After 2007–08 season, he became a free agent. His rights were renounced by the Clippers, but on August 18,2008 and he was waived by the Clippers in January 2009. On September 25,2009, Davis signed with the Washington Wizards and he was waived on November 11,2009, when the Wizards signed guard Earl Boykins. On April 8,2010, Davis signed with Xacobeo Blu, Sens, in September 2010 he signed with CB Cajasol Sevilla. After two seasons at Seville, in May 2012 he signed a deal with the Russian club BC Khimki. In July 2014, he re-signed with Khimki for one more season, on July 11,2015, he signed another one-year extension with the club. On June 27,2016, Davis announced his retirement from basketball due to constant injuries. Note, The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season and he also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable. Paul Davis Pictures at Clippers Topbuzz Euroleague. net profile MSU Spartans bio
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Shannon Brown
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Shannon Brown is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He attended Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 2003 and he was drafted the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 25th overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft. Brown attended Proviso East High School in Maywood, where his teammates included fellow 2006 draftee Dee Brown, in 2003, he was named Illinois Mr. Basketball and a McDonalds All-American. Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals. com, Brown was listed as the No.1 shooting guard, Brown played college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans. He was second-team All-Big Ten as a junior and an All-Big Ten Defensive selection, Brown was drafted in the first round with the 25th pick of the 2006 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Appearing in only 23 games in his season, he showed promise, scoring in double figures twice. Brown was assigned to the NBA Development Leagues Albuquerque Thunderbirds on March 2,2007 but was recalled by the Cavaliers a day later, in his sole game as a Thunderbird, Brown scored 14 points with four rebounds and six assists. Brown returned to the NBA Development League, this time with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, in four games as a Viper, He averaged 23.5 points, including a 37-point performance against the Dakota Wizards on January 16. He was recalled by the Cavaliers on January 17, through 2007–08s All-Star break, Brown played in 15 games during the season, averaging 7.0 points per game. On February 21,2008, Brown was traded to the Chicago Bulls as part of a 3-team deal between the Bulls, the Cavaliers, and the Sonics, the Sonics received Cavs forward Ira Newble, Cavs forward Donyell Marshall, and Bulls forward Adrian Griffin. The Cavs received Bulls center Ben Wallace, Bulls forward Joe Smith, the Bulls 2009 2nd round pick, Sonics forward Wally Szczerbiak, while the Bulls received Brown, Cavs forward Drew Gooden, Cavs guard Larry Hughes, and Cavs forward Cedric Simmons. On August 6,2008, he was signed to the Charlotte Bobcats to a contract worth the minimum NBA salary of $800,000. He would average only 4.8 points in limited action with the Bobcats, on February 7,2009, Brown was traded, along with Adam Morrison, to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vladimir Radmanović. Browns playing time with the Lakers was initially limited, towards the end of the season, Brown experienced an upswing of playtime. In the 5 final games of the season, Brown played for an average of 16.4 minutes, with those minutes, he averaged 7.2 points,2.4 rebounds, and 1.6 assists. Browns increased playtime would carry on to the playoffs, in the opening game in the first round match up against the Jazz, Brown played 22 minutes. He had 9 points,3 assists,2 rebounds and a steal and he finished the series averaging 17.4 minutes,7.2 points,1.2 rebounds,1.8 assists, and one steal per game. On July 6,2009, Brown agreed to return to the Lakers for two years and $4.2 million and it was announced on January 18,2010 that he was selected to compete in the Sprite Slam Dunk Competition at Dallas in the 2010 All-Star weekend
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Brown during his tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers
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Brown (left) practices shooting with former Lakers teammate
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Kalin Lucas
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Kalin Jay Lucas is an American professional basketball player for the Erie BayHawks of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for Michigan State University, considered a four-star recruit by Rivals. com, Lucas was listed as the No.6 point guard and the No.38 player in the nation in 2007. As a freshman, Lucas immediately saw heavy playing time for the 2007–08 Spartans and his team-leading 13.5 points per game in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament were a major component of their Sweet Sixteen run. He led MSU in scoring, field goals made and attempted, free throws made and attempted, assists and minutes, while ranking second in steals. Lucas continued to lead the Spartans in his season, as he earned All-Big Ten first team honors and was also named Co-MVP of the team. On January 26,2010, Lucas made a jumper at Michigan with 3.5 seconds remaining, which gave Michigan State a one-point lead. Lucas season was put to an end, but the Spartans rallied. Lucas was voted Team MVP and All-Big Ten second team during his senior season and he finished his four-year career at Michigan State as the schools all-time leader in free-throws made and attempted. He is also one of just four Spartans to total 1,500 career points and 500 career assists, on July 23,2011, Lucas signed with Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League. On January 24,2012, he was released by Olympiacos, five days later, he signed with Banvit of Turkey for the rest of the 2011–12 season. In July 2012, Lucas joined the San Antonio Spurs for the 2012 NBA Summer League, in October 2012, he re-joined Banvit for the 2012–13 season. On September 27,2013, Lucas signed with the Chicago Bulls, in November 2013, he was acquired by the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League as an affiliate player of the Bulls. In July 2014, Lucas joined the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2014 NBA Summer League and he signed with the Grizzlies on September 25,2014, but was later waived on October 25. On October 31,2014, Lucas was reacquired by the Iowa Energy and he re-signed with the Grizzlies on November 4,2014. But was waived again on November 9 before appearing in a game for them. He re-joined Iowa on November 12, only to re-sign with the Grizzlies on November 19 and debuting in the NBA the same day, however, he was waived again the next day. On November 22, he re-joined Iowa, in March 2015, he left Iowa and signed with TED Ankara Kolejliler of the Turkish Basketball League. In July 2015, Lucas signed with Chinese team Qingdao DoubleStar and he subsequently re-signed with TED Ankara Kolejliler in August 2015
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Lucas as a Michigan State Spartan
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Keith Appling
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Keith Damon Appling is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Erie BayHawks of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for Michigan State University, Appling played high school basketball at Pershing High School in Detroit. In 2009, as a junior, he led his team to win the Michigan High School Athletic Association Class A Basketball Championship, during the title game, he set a MHSAA Championship Game record by scoring 49 points. The next year, as a senior, he was the Mr. Basketball of Michigan award winner, at the end of his high school career, he was considered a high level recruit and was the 34th ranked player using the RSCI rankings. In his senior campaign, Appling averaged 28 points,6 rebounds and 5 assists and he was selected to play in the 2010 McDonalds All-American Boys Game during which he scored 10 points. As a freshman at MSU, Appling averaged 6.4 points and 2.8 rebounds per game, in his sophomore year, he averaged 11.6 points,2.9 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game. He earned All-Big Ten third team honors while leading the Spartans to the Big Ten regular season and tournament championship. In his junior year, he started every game and lead the Spartans in scoring with 13.4 points a game, in his senior year, he averaged 11.2 points,3.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. After going undrafted in the 2014 NBA draft, Appling joined the Portland Trail Blazers for the 2014 NBA Summer League, on September 23,2014, he signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, but was later waived on October 20. On November 1, he was acquired by the Los Angeles D-Fenders as a player of the Lakers. On March 7,2015, he was traded to the Erie BayHawks in exchange for the player rights to Cleveland Melvin. In 38 D-League games in 2014–15, Appling averaged 10.5 points,3.0 rebounds and 3.9 assists in 24.4 minutes per game, in July 2015, Appling joined the Orlando Magic white team for the 2015 NBA Summer League. On September 24, he signed with the Magic, but was waived by the team on October 19 after appearing in five preseason games. On October 31, he was reacquired by the Erie BayHawks, on January 18,2016, he signed a 10-day contract with the Magic. He made his NBA debut that night in a 98–81 loss to the Atlanta Hawks, on January 29, he signed a second 10-day contract with the Magic. That same day, he was named in the East All-Star team for the 2016 NBA D-League All-Star Game, on February 8, after his contract expired, he was reacquired by the BayHawks. At the seasons end, he earned NBA D-League All-Defensive Team honors, Appling is the son of Tottie Williams and majored in Sociology. Career statistics and player information from NBA. com, or Basketball-Reference. com NBA D-League profile
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Branden Dawson
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Branden Dawson is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Ligat HaAl. A native of Gary, Indiana, he attended Lew Wallace High School, in his senior season for Michigan State, he helped his team reach the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. Dawson played high school basketball for Lew Wallace, under coach Renaldo Thomas and he had to sit out most of his freshman season, being academically ineligible. Dawson was selected for the 2011 McDonalds All-American Boys Game following his senior year, in the regional finals against Western, Dawson had game-highs in scoring and rebounding with 28 and 15 respectively, but his team lost 69–65. As a senior he averaged 28.7 points,18.6 rebounds and 5.6 assists for Lew Wallace, Dawson was a five-star recruit according to both Rivals. com and Scout. com and received a 96 grade by ESPN. Following interest from schools, receiving offers from Purdue, Indiana, UCLA, Georgetown and Marquette among others. He had 15 points and 9 rebounds in his first game for the Spartans, Dawson scored 10 points in his competitive debut for Michigan State, a 67–55 loss to North Carolina in the 2011 Carrier Classic. He scored a season high 16 points on two occasions, against UMKC and Minnesota and his freshman season came to an end after he tore his left anterior cruciate ligament, in a game against Ohio State. He still managed to average 8.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game as a freshman, Dawson had a double-double in the season opener of his sophomore season, having 15 points and 10 rebounds, against Connecticut. Dawson was involved in a fight with teammate and roommate Adreian Payne, just before a game at Penn State. A few days after the incident with Payne, Dawson had a performance in both scoring and rebounding, with 18 and 13 respectively, to help the Spartans overcome Wisconsin 49–47. He improved to 8.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game as a sophomore, in January 2014, Dawson broke his right hand, after slamming it on a table during a film session. He posted averages 11.2 points,8.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 28.3 minutes per game during his junior season, as a senior, he was named second team All-Big Ten and Big Ten All-Defensive Team. In 35 games as a senior, Dawson averaged 11.9 points,9.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game and he led Michigan State to the Final Four as a senior, where they lost to Duke. This is the reason why I chose Michigan State, Dawson said. It was to be part of championships and Final Fours and it means a lot what has happened over my four years here. I’m never going to forget Michigan State, during his four-year career at Michigan State Dawson played in 130 games. He averaged 26.6 minutes a game and he averaged 10.1 points a game, and 6.9 Rebounds a game
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Dawson playing for Michigan State in the 2011
Carrier Classic
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Deyonta Davis
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Deyonta Davis is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. He won the Mr. Basketball of Michigan in 2015 and appeared in the McDonalds All-American Boys Game the same year and he played one season of college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans before being drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 31st overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft. Davis attended Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Michigan, in his final season, he recorded 4 points and 12 rebounds in the state regional finals, as Muskegon escaped Hudsonville in quadruple-overtime. He played his game for the Big Reds on March 24,2015. He contributed 12 points,8 rebounds, and 5 blocks and it was played only three miles from the Michigan State University campus. Davis said after the loss, It was very important and we came out ready to play, but the game just didnt go our way. The game was attended by MSU assistant basketball coach Dwayne Stephens, Davis also got the chance to meet Spartans players before competing. As Muskegons star left his team, head coach Keith Guy said, two games dont define his career. By the end of the season, Davis was named Mr. Basketball of Michigan for 2015, in the balloting, he earned a total of 5,223 points. Arthur Hills Eric Davis and Everetts Trevor Manuel finished after him, the award was won by two straight players from Muskegon High School, Deshaun Thrower winning in 2014. Big Red coach Guy complemented his team, saying, To have another kid win it for the second consecutive year, Davis was given his personal Mr. Basketball trophy between the quarters of the Michigan state title game, in which Saginaws Arthur Hill played against Detroits Western International. He said in disappointment, Id much rather be on the playing right now. On April 1,2015, Davis competed in the 2015 McDonalds All-American Boys Game and he played alongside the likes of Stephen Zimmerman and Jalen Brunson and against Diamond Stone and Cheick Diallo. Davis finished the game with 6 points and 9 rebounds, leading his team in the latter category, in January, when he was named to the game, Bank Hoops scout Steve Bell said, This is huge for West Michigan. The forward was the first player from that region to appear at the stage since Matt Steigenga in 1988, Davis played one season at Michigan State, averaging 7.5 points per game,5.5 rebounds per game, and 1.6 blocks per game. Davis started 16 of the final 17 games of the season for the Spartans, Davis was a key part to Michigan States record setting start to the season, Big Ten Tournament Championship, and MSUs 2nd overall final rank in the AP Poll. He set the freshman record with 64 blocked shots, second-most in a single season in program history. With the good season under his belt, Davis declared for the draft on April 12,2016, coach Tom Izzo said the following on the decision to leave early, As a coach, my job is to help my players grow both on and off the basketball court
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Davis in 2015
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Arthur Hill High School
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Arthur Hill High School is located at 3115 Mackinaw in Saginaw, Michigan. The student population is 1,012 students as of the 2013-14 school year, of the three high schools in the Saginaw Public School District, Arthur Hills student population is the largest. The school was named after a successful lumbering and shipping owner and he was President of the School Board for five years. Arthur Hill graduates Theodore Roethke, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, Arthur Hill High School is recognized by NCA as an accredited public high school. Arthur Hill High School Profile 2013/2014 Arthur Hill High School has won state, regional. The most recent state boys basketball championships were in 2006 and 1999, dick Rifenburg was a star athlete at Arthur Hill High School in football, basketball, and track and field. He led Arthur Hill to MHSAA Class A high school championship in 1944. The Lumberjacks won the game against Kalamazoo Central High School and an undefeated season and he scored 24 points, including 17 in the second half. Dick was also the champion shot put and high jump in 1944. He led Lumberjacks to their first State Track Championship, Rifenburg was named All State in football, basketball and track. In 2002, He was inducted into The Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame, coached by Jim Eurick, the Lumberjacks outlasted the Shamrocks, who went on to win the title again the next year. He led the Big Ten Conference in single season receptions during his senior year, Theodore Roethke — Poet,1954 Pulitzer Prize winner Clifton Ryan — Defensive Lineman, St. Thomas J. He has been with the team since 1997, Arthur Hill Home North Central Home
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Wyoming Park High School
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Wyoming Public Schools is a school district located in Wyoming, Michigan. The district serves 4,500 students It has one high school, on March 12,2012, the Wyoming Public Schools Board of Education voted in favor of 4-3 to restructure the district, effective with the 2012-13 school year. This combined both high schools into a high school held on the campus of Rogers High School. Wyoming Park High School became Wyoming Junior High, serving students in grades 7 to 9, through a series of public forums and a community survey, district administration and board members received input from the public on their opinions as to what should or should not happen. On March 12,2012, the board voted in favor of 4-3 to consolidate the district and it was determined that Wyoming Park High School would be renamed Wyoming Junior High School and would serve students in grades 7th - 9th. Rogers High School would become the only high school, renamed Wyoming High School. Newhall Middle School would be the new home of additional district programs, Intermediate School serves 491 students in grades 5-6. Wyoming Junior High serves 628 students in grades 7-8, the district has seven elementary schools which serve the city of Wyoming, MI. Gladiola Elementary School serves 357 students in grades K-4, huntington Woods Elementary School serves 341 students in grades K-4. Oriole Park Elementary School serves 337 students in grades K-4, Parkview Elementary School serves 372 students in grades K-4. West Elementary School serves 328 students in grades K-4, Wyoming Public Schools Wyoming High School Website Wyoming Junior High Intermediate School Gladiola Elementary Oriole Park Elementary Parkview Elementary West Elementary
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Wyoming Rogers High School of
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Derrick Nix
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Derrick Nix is an American professional basketball player who last played for BK Ventspils of the Latvian Basketball League. He played college basketball for Michigan State, Nix played college basketball for Michigan State University. In his freshman year, he made the 2010 NCAA Final Four, Nix had his best season with the Spartans in his senior year when he averaged 9.9 points,6.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists as Michigan State made NCAA Sweet 16. After completing four seasons at MSU, Nix went undrafted in the 2013 NBA Draft, in July 2013, he signed a three-year deal Slovenian club KK Krka, but left the team in preseason. In October 2013, Nix joined Latvian powerhouse VEF Rīga and he left the club in April 2014 for personal reasons. On July 22,2014, he signed a deal with Orléans Loiret Basket of France. On February 3,2015, he parted ways with Orléans, on October 15,2015, Nix signed with Czarni Słupsk of the Polish Basketball League. On November 12, he parted ways with Słupsk after appearing in five games, on December 21, he was acquired by the Grand Rapids Drive of the NBA Development League. Two days later, he made his debut for Grand Rapids in a 113–111 victory over the Canton Charge, on February 16,2016, he was waived by Grand Rapids. Four days later, he signed with Latvian club BK Ventspils for the rest of the season, the son of Darlis Nix, he majored in Sociology. Michigan State bio NBADraft. net profile DraftExpress. com profile Eurocup profile FIBA. com profile
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Nix playing for the Michigan State Spartans in the 2011
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Proviso East High School
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It is the original campus of Proviso Township High Schools District 209. Prior to being split into East and Proviso West High School in 1958, the school is located at the intersection of Madison Street and First Avenue. Proviso Easts history in many ways reflects that of some suburban and urban schools in the United States, despite the tensions that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, the school is known for its extensive list of notable alumni. The cornerstone of the school was laid on 21 January 1911 in a ceremony presided over by a lodge of the Ancient Free. The 22 member class of 1911 graduated from the building, even though the school would not be completed until July, from even its early days, students were no stranger to protest. In May 1913, in retaliation for what students claimed were harsh methods, after the principal removed the effigy in the early evening, another was hung from the flagpole on top of the school. The next year,110 students walked out on strike when the principal refused to grant a holiday for Columbus Day, in October 1915, the school district began the process of selling US$50,000 in bonds for the purpose of expanding the school. In 1929, work began on a new school building, a bond issue was approved by voters in June, though a lawsuit filed by some local taxpayers led to an injunction blocking the bond issue after construction had begun. The new school construction was eventually completed, in November 1936, voters in the district approved a bond issue, in conjunction with funding from the Public Works Administration, for the construction of a fieldhouse. The fieldhouse, including a pool, was completed in 1938. The outbreak of World War II brought almost immediately bad news to the school, several of their alumni had been a part of an Illinois National Guard unit. The unit had been activated by the U. S. Army in 1940, of the 137 members of the company that were killed or captured while defending the islands against the Japanese invasion,52 of them were alumni. Those not killed were forced to participate in the Bataan Death March, starting in September 1942, and for every September since, the loss to the community has been commemorated. In the end,191 alumni were killed in the war, there were several changes to the school as a result of the war. A pre-flight aeronautics class that was open to young men and women. Ostensibly, the course was designed to reduce training time for military pilots. Despite being a school, coursework was offered to students who were interested in filling needed jobs in the agriculture sector. The National Youth Administration built a workshop on the property to advance vocational education, when the NYA ceased operation in 1943, the school negotiated for the workshop to be turned over to the school, greatly increasing its work space for vocational education
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Draymond Green
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Draymond Jamal Green Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. Green, who plays primarily at the forward position, was named to the NBA All-Defensive Team. Green was named an NBA All-Star the following two seasons, Green grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and played college basketball for Michigan State, where he helped the Spartans earn two Final Four appearances and a Big Ten Tournament championship in 2012. He went on to be drafted 35th overall in the 2012 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, Green attended Saginaw High School in Saginaw, Michigan, where he played for coach Lou Dawkins. As a sophomore in 2005–06, he averaged 12 points and 11 rebounds per game, as a junior in 2006–07, he averaged 25 points,13 rebounds, three assists and three steals per game as he led Saginaw to the Class A State Championship and a 26–1 record. On November 14,2007, Green signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball for Michigan State. Green had also considered signing with Michigan and Kentucky and he was subsequently named captain of the Detroit Free Press All-State Dream Team, and was rated the No.36 player in the ESPN150, including the No.13 power forward. As a freshman for Michigan State in 2008–09, Green appeared in 37 games off the Spartan bench as he averaged 3.3 points and 3.3 rebounds per game on the season. As a sophomore in 2009–10, Green appeared in 37 games with three starting assignments as he averaged 9.9 points,7.7 rebounds,3.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game. He became the first player in Michigan State history to be named Big Ten Sixth Man of the Year and he also earned third-team All-Big Ten honors and was the recipient of MSUs Most Improved Player, Chairman of the Boards and Antonio Smith Glue and Guts awards. Twice, Green scored a season-high 19 points, on December 10 against Oakland and he also had seven games with double-doubles, including 17 points and 16 rebounds on February 6 against Illinois. As a junior in 2010–11, Green averaged 12.6 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, on February 10,2011, Green followed Charlie Bell and Magic Johnson to be the third Michigan State mens basketball player to record a triple-double. In the 2011 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament, he recorded his second triple-double of the season and he went on to earn third-team All-Big Ten honors for the second straight year. As a senior in 2011–12, Green captained the Spartans to a regular season Big Ten championship, the 2011–12 squad compiled a regular season 24–7 record and a 13–5 mark in Big Ten play, good for the teams 13th conference title and the third in the previous four years. Green was named Big Ten Mens Basketball Player of the four times during the season. On March 5,2012, Green was named Big Ten Player of the Year by the coaches, on March 10,2012, Draymond passed Johnny Green as the second all-time rebounding leader at MSU, finishing the game with 1,046 career rebounds. On March 22,2012, in a loss to Louisville, Green collected 16 rebounds, bringing him to 1,096 career rebounds and he ended his career as one of three players in Michigan State history with over 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. Green was selected with the 35th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, on July 30,2012, he signed a three-year, $2.6 million contract with the Warriors
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Green with the Warriors in October 2012
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NABC Player of the Year
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The NABC Player of the Year is an award given annually by the National Association of Basketball Coaches to recognize the top player in mens college basketball. The award has given since the 1974–75 season to National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball players. The association added awards for Division II and Division III players in 1983, the awards are sponsored by State Farm Insurance. In Division I, Duke has the most all-time winners with five and their rival, North Carolina, is second with four winners. There have been three ties for NABC Player of the Year, and only two players have won the award multiple times, in Division II, Virginia Union has four winners, the most all-time, and is followed by Kentucky Wesleyan which has three. Only one tie has occurred, while three players have won the more than once. In Division III, Potsdam State has the most all-time winners with three, while six other schools are tied for second with two winners apiece, there have been two ties and three repeat winners. At the NAIA level, there is a distinction between NAIA Division I and NAIA Division II winners, since the awards began in 2008, no school or individual player has received the award multiple times. In junior college, every winner has been a sophomore and has gone on to play at an NCAA Division I school after their community college careers have ended. For the 2007–08 season, Ryan Fiegi, a point guard at Oregon Tech, was named the player of the year. Beginning in 2008–09, the NAIA began awarding players of the year for Divisions I, since community college players only attend for two years, these players are only either freshmen or sophomores. Afterwards, they move on to a four year university to finish their last two seasons of NCAA eligibility, the University column reflects which team these players would play for following their JuCo careers. List of U. S. mens college basketball player of the year awards NABC Player of the Year Awards
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Patrick Ewing is the only winner from
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Antawn Jamison won in 1997–98.
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Adam Morrison shared the award as a junior in 2005–06.
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Charles Oakley won in 1984–85 and later became an
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Morris Peterson
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Morris Russell Peterson Jr. is an American retired professional basketball player. He is also a cousin of basketball player of the Indiana Pacers. Born in Flint, Michigan, Peterson played collegiate basketball at Michigan State University, in his senior year at MSU, Peterson led the team in scoring, field goal percentage, and free throw percentage. He had a team-high 30 double-digit scoring efforts and he was voted Big Ten Player of the Year and First Team All-Big Ten, and he placed as first or second team All-American on five different polls. He was selected 21st overall by the Raptors in the 2000 NBA draft, on January 17,2009, MSU retired his number 42 with MSUs other all-time greats before their game against the Illinois Fighting Illini. Drafted in the first round by the Raptors in 2000, Peterson was a fan favorite from the moment he stepped on the floor and he is known for his three-point shooting, acrobatic shots, defense, and fearless driving to the basket. On December 28,2005, Peterson set a record for games played as a Raptor. Peterson also leads the NBA in longest consecutive games played, appearing in 371 straight until November 22,2006, when he missed his first game in over four years. Peterson posted career highs in points and rebounds averaging 16.8 points and 4.6 rebounds, perhaps the biggest highlight of his career occurred against the Washington Wizards on March 30,2007 in a game that helped determine the two teams playoff seeding. The Raptors trailed 109–106 with only 3.8 seconds left, the Wizards Michael Ruffin intercepted the full-court pass and tried to toss the ball high into the air so that the clock would run out. But the ball slipped from his hands and was not thrown high enough, there was still enough time on the clock as Peterson caught the ball and launched a Hail Mary three-pointer and sank it to send the game into overtime. Peterson only played 55 seconds in the game, with his first shift beginning with only 9.3 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Raptors went on to defeat the Wizards, 123–118. After signing Bryan Colangelo, it became apparent that the process of the Raptors would not include Peterson. It was only a matter of time before his contract expired in the summer of 2007 that he would be gone, on July 13,2007, the New Orleans Hornets signed Peterson to a four-year contract, worth $23 million. On July 8,2010, the Hornets traded Peterson along with #11 overall pick in the 2010 draft, on February 24,2011, Peterson was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats along with D. J. White in exchange for Nazr Mohammed and he was waived four days later when his contract was bought out by the Bobcats. On January 14,2015, TSN announced that Peterson will join their broadcast team as an analyst, Peterson will also deliver analysis for SportsCentre and appear throughout the networks expanded NCAA coverage, including TSNs wall-to-wall coverage of NCAA March Madness. Career-high, March 31,2006 Peterson scored a career-best 38 points vs. the Phoenix Suns, first-round draft choice by Toronto in 2000
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Charlie Bell (basketball)
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Charlie Will Bell III is a retired American professional basketball player currently working as an assistant coach for the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for Michigan State and he went undrafted, but was signed by the Phoenix Suns on July 23,2001 as a free agent and played five games for them. After being released by the Suns, he signed with the Phoenix Eclipse of the ABA and played four games for them. He initially signed a 10-day contract with the Dallas Mavericks on January 10,2002, and was signed for the remainder of the season on January 15. After a rather brief stint in the NBA, Bell took his career to Europe to play in the Italian, in March 2002, he signed with Benetton Treviso of the Italian League and won the Italian League with Treviso. In the 2002–03 season, he played for Virtus Bologna, but was injured in December 2002 and was sidelined for most of the season, in August 2003, he signed with Mabo Livorno also of the Italian League. In July 2004, he signed with Leche Rio Breogan Lugo of the Spanish League and was named to the Spanish League first-team for the 2004–05 season and he was also the top scorer and four times player of the month. He became a hero and a legend while playing in Breogán. Bell had then-career highs of 19 points,13 assists, and 10 rebounds to lead Milwaukee and he improved those numbers the following season, to 13 points,3 rebounds and 3 assists per games in 35 minutes on average, while appearing in all 82 games. On September 17,2007, being a free agent. Although he stated that he did not want to play for Milwaukee, on June 22,2010, Bell, along with Dan Gadzuric, was traded to the Golden State Warriors for Corey Maggette. He was waived by the Warriors under the amnesty clause prior to the 2011–12 NBA season, in January 2012 he signed with Pepsi Caserta. On November 3,2016, Bell was hired by the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League to be an assistant coach. Bell stars in a series of webisodes titled Hey Charlie, Do My Job. in which he takes up a fans occupation for a day as well as a filament winder at Amalga Composites. Career statistics and player information from Basketball-Reference. com ACB. com profile - Charlie Bell
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