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They're naming the gym after him so it could not have been too bad.

 

The story at the time was it had something to do with him going through a divorce.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19990109&id=zVFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9-sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6810,2139644

 

I wrote about the '84 championship team recently and Ewing was the first player to agree to an interview. I couldn't believe how friendly he was. Reggie Williams was a heck of a nice guy too.

It was ridiculously difficult to get an interview scheduled with John Thompson, Jr., and he was gruff and first, but it turned out to be a pleasant conversation once it became clear to him I'd done my research and asked decent questions. JTIII never did agree to talk to me.

 

I have not watched it yet, but did they mention Thompson's POY vote for Pearl over Mullin?

 

Wasn't one of the reasons Thompson left was the NCAA wouldn't allow him to own part of the slot concession at the Vegas airport?

 

No.
It was fairly reverential of everybody connected to the BigEast.

What was really left out was the money disparity between an excellent basketball conference like the Big East and what a mediocre Football Conference would bring in.

 

Douglas was great, but having freshmen like Derrick Coleman and Stevie Thompson helped in '87 as well.

 

Rony Seikaly was not bad either

 

Reminder that Hillsborough airs at 8 tonight. Early reviews were very positive. Seems like this should be a must-watch for newbie soccer fans or sports fans in general.

 

I just watched it. Incredible. Perhaps this belongs on the News board, since today is the 25th anniversary.

My knowledge of Hillsborough mostly came from reading up on Wikipedia (I've really only started watching the Premier League with interest for the last two or three years). While I had a cursory knowledge about the tragedy of 96 lives lost, I had no clear understanding of the massive cover-up that followed. So shameful. I cannot fathom having lost a loved one in that, and then for the next 23 years be continually disappointed with how it was handled.

How would we, as Americans, have responded if something like that happened in one of our stadiums?

 

Devastating documentary. I knew about nearly all of it and it still shatters you to the core.

 

The Spirits one seems mostly to be about Marvin Barnes. Man, what a degenerate. Seeing Gus Gerard looking like a meth head was sobering, though his drug use was well known, too. Some interesting tidbits, but the ABA special on HBO years ago was much better.