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Kelvin Sampson recalls racism he fought growing up in North Carolina

The Houston coach is of the Lumbee Tribe and says he ‘always identified with the brothers’

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Patrick Ewing’s coaching success is more than a feel-good story

‘The heart of John Thompson’ lives in the revival of Georgetown basketball

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Nolan Richardson: ‘John Chaney was one of the most brilliant guys I’ve ever met’

The longtime Temple coach died at the age of 89 on Jan. 29

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The night John Thompson walked out of the arena

Coach’s protest of Proposition 42 through the eyes of Thompson’s son Ronny, who was a player on that Georgetown team

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Behind John Thompson’s closed-door meeting with drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III

In his new autobiography, the coach describes the famous meeting and the threat to Georgetown’s basketball program

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Mourning the loss of four athletic icons

Remembering Gale Sayers, John Thompson, Wes Unseld and Bobby Mitchell

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Georgetown freshman Mac McClung is electrifying, dynamic — and white

The Hoyas’ complicated history with race makes it impossible to overlook the significance of Patrick Ewing landing a recruit like McClung

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The loss of the Black Coaches Association is still being felt today

Nolan Richardson: ‘You don’t have any black coaches out there now who carry any weight whatsoever’

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The roots of Patrick Ewing’s coaching tree

4 men who shaped Georgetown’s new coach

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