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Harris' legacy goes beyond banners
Jim Harris' reach goes well beyond the Seahawk uniform. Coach Harris mentored students who were never in his math classes and young coaches like me who never attended his school or played on his team. While Ocean View High School's gymnasium is lined...Tags: Basketball, Road Transportation, Philosophy, College Basketball, Mike Krzyzewski
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Yutaka Shimizu dies at 84; longtime L.A. high school basketball coach
Yutaka Shimizu, who became a quiet institution among high school basketball coaches in Los Angeles during a career that began in 1959 and lasted the rest of his life, has died. He was 84.
Shimizu, who had a lung ailment, died Sunday at a Lakewood...Tags: Basketball, Eric Sondheimer, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Sports, High School Sports
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PASSINGS: Kenny Heitz
Kenny Heitz, 65, who played on three NCAA basketball championship teams at UCLA in the 1960s, died Monday at his home in Pacific Palisades after a battle with cancer, the school announced. At a time when freshmen were not eligible to play varsity sports,...
Tags: Basketball, College Sports, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, UCLA Bruins, National Basketball Association
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Former Cardinal Gibbons and Duke star Wojciechowski helping U.S. men prepare for the Games
Steve Wojciechowski still looks like the pugnacious point guard who came out of Cardinal Gibbons nearly two decades ago and proved those wrong who said he wouldn't make an impact at Duke. He's spent the past 13 years as an assistant and now associate...
Tags: Basketball, Duke Blue Devils, LeBron James, Sports, Awards and Prizes
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Family Resumes Search For Missing Fox Executive in Sylmar
KTLA NewsSYLMAR, Calif. (KTLA) -- Friends and family members are relaunching a search for a missing film executive believed to have last been seen in Sylmar. Gavin Smith, an executive at 20th Century Fox, 57, disappeared on May 1 while he was staying with a...Tags: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Avatar (movie), Adultery, Entertainment, Star Wars (movie)
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U.S. women's water polo team finishes sweep
CORONA DEL MAR — Tumua Anae is often seen as reserved, a calming influence on the United States women's water polo Olympic team. Still, do not think for a second that she isn't extremely thrilled to be representing her country in her first...
Tags: Values, Basketball, Olympic Games, Ethics, Gold Standard Incorporated
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Notre Dame men's basketball: Finding life's carom
South Bend TribuneHe played basketball and played it very well during his undergraduate days at Notre Dame, but he often dreamed about life after the running and the shooting - and especially the rebounding - ended.That's why he often sat like a sponge and absorbed...Tags: Basketball, University of Notre Dame, College Sports, Heisman Trophy, Entertainment Events
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Four Suns selected as All-Stars
Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden used to say, “It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.” The Hagerstown Suns won’t be on the field to start the 53rd annual South Atlantic League All-Star Game, but...Tags: Brian Daubach, Sports, Baseball
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Newport Beach resident helps raise money for Wooden Athletic Fund
UCLA alumnus Barry Saywitz played host to the Orange County Bruin Bash at his Newport Beach home on Saturday, helping his alma mater raise more than $54,000 for the Wooden Athletic Fund. The fund generates financial support to help more than 700 student-...
Tags: Volleyball, UCLA Bruins, Olympic Games, National Football League, National Basketball Association
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Colleges: Speraw truly a winner
The nature of athletics often defines its participants by winning and losing, but there is much more to the distinction of "winner" than a cursory summation of the scoreboard. The funny thing about most winners, though, is that they win. John Speraw...Tags: UC Irvine Anteaters, UCLA Bruins, University of California, Irvine, Donnie Murphy, Sports
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