Archive for February, 2009



73-year-old basketball player ruled ineligible (Fox Sports)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 7:02 am

His college basketball career apparently over, 73-year-old Ken Mink says he accomplished what he set out to do. Mink played about 15 minutes in seven games this season for Roane State, scoring 5 points along the way. “For a 73-year-old guy, I felt I played very well and very competitively,” he said in a phone interview from with The Associated Press from the junior college campus. “The coaches …

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S. Jersey Boys: South Jersey boys’ basketball roundup (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 6:02 am

Cherry Hill East sophomore Chris Santo needed 31 points to reach 1,000 points for his career. So that was the number he stopped on in the fourth quarter yesterday in a nonleague basketball game against visiting Moorestown.

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Former basketball coach Raveling proud owner of Martin Luther King’s famous speech (Philadelphia Daily News)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 6:02 am

Former Villanova basketball star George Raveling has the original typescript of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech given in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial.

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UNC men’s basketball finally gets past Montana, qualifies for first Big Sky tournament (9 News Denver)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 6:02 am

GREELEY, Colo. — Northern Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle has been talking a lot lately about “pretenders” and “contenders.”

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O.C. basketball: Previews of tonight’s semifinals (Orange County Register)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 6:02 am

Get all the information you need for a big night of boys basketball.

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‘LOVED THE GAMEMADLY’ BASKETBALL AND CHICAGO LOSE ONE OF THE ALL-TIME GREATS (Chicago Sun-Times)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 5:02 am

They didn’t call him ”Stormin’ Norman” for nothing. Former Bulls star and broadcaster Norm Van Lier attacked life with a fierce intensity and, at times, a wicked temper that Chicagoans first saw on the basketball court in the 1970s and later in the broadcast booth.

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Prep Basketball Roundup | Schneider retiring as Lakeside coach (Seattle Times)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 5:02 am

Sandy Schneider, who has won five state championships as Lakeside girls basketball coach, is retiring after the season.

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Basketball legend Johnny ‘Red’ Kerr dies at 76 (Chicago Tribune)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 4:02 am

Bulls broadcaster starred at Tilden, Illinois and with the NBA Syracuse Nationals He was a high school and college basketball great, an NBA champion and an All-Star, a front-office executive and a respected broadcaster, but Johnny Kerr, who died Thursday night at 76 after a long battle with prostate cancer, always will be known as a Chicago Bull. Norm Van Lier: Dies Thursday at age 61 Photos …

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Broncho basketball: Billy Tubbs tradition lives on at fun-filled UCO (The Oklahoman)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 4:02 am

EDMOND — Terry Evans says he has the second-best college basketball team in the state. No one really believes him, and maybe Evans doesn’t believe it himself about his Central Oklahoma Bronchos, but this much is indisputable.Evans has turned UCO into an NCAA Division II power. With a roster full of Oklahomans and an up-tempo style that Evans learned playing point guard for Billy Tubbs, the …

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General Motors May End 25-Year-Old NCAA Basketball Sponsorship (Bloomberg)

Friday 27 February 2009 @ 3:02 am

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp. may not renew its 25-year sponsorship of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after this season because the automaker wants to garner customer approval after being bailed out by the government.

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