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John Chaney Left Us With Words to Live By, Even if They Can’t All Be Repeated

by gordie | Jan 31, 2021 | College Basketball

John Chaney’s death on Friday at age 89 reminded me that I have held onto a cassette tape of a telephone interview I did with him in July 1999, when he was 17 years into his 24-year run as the men’s basketball coach at Temple. Took some rooting around to find it, but...

How Ken Shank’s 15 Minutes of Fame Have Lasted a Lifetime (with Help from Bill Bradley, and John McPhee)

by gordie | Sep 26, 2020 | College Basketball

Distinguished author John McPhee wrote “A Sense of Where You Are,” the definitive book about Bill Bradley’s Princeton basketball career, in 1965. It only seems like McPhee’s seminal work had been sitting on my shelf that long. A pandemic makes for strange...
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