College basketball’s tallest player in Iowa hospital after partial foot amputation October 20, 2008
Posted by John in Medicine, Sports.Tags: amputations, basketball, College Basketball, iowa, Kenny George, MRSA
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From Chicago Tribune:
Former Chicago Latin star Kenny George, a senior center at UNC Asheville, had part of his right foot amputated, a source confirmed to ESPN.com. The source said the amputation, which occurred three weeks ago, was the result of George’s battle with MRSA …
He has been hospitalized in Iowa since then, the source said, enduring several surgeries and at one time battling for his life. …
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Online record for Pierre Pierce disappears from Iowa Sex Offender Registry September 26, 2008
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Sports.Tags: Alfredo Parrish, basketball, Bob Brammer, France, Iowa Attorney General, Iowa City (Iowa), Iowa Supreme Court, Pierre Pierce, sex offenders
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Page for Pierce’s information now just a question mark (as of this writing):
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We could not find information about the person you are looking for.
The person may have been removed and is no longer viewable,
or the site may have made a mistake.
Here’s what the page used to look like.
Could this be a gap between page updates for approved travel to France, or just a site glitch?
Pierre Pierce allowed to travel to France
Earlier Tuesday, a three judge panel of the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a Dallas County District Court ruling that Pierce could travel to France. …
Pierce has signed a $120,000 contract with a team in France’s top professional basketball league. He is on probation for a January 2005 incident at the West Des Moines home of a former girlfriend. …
See controversial full-page University of Iowa basketball ads Gazette sports columnist Jim Ecker is writing about September 25, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: basketball, College Basketball, Fighting Illini, Hawkeye Sports, Iowa City (Iowa), Jarryd Cole, Jeff Peterson, Jim Ecker, Ohio State Buckeyes, Rick Klatt, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Hawkeyes
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Related Jim Ecker columns:
Ad’s dunk didn’t happen, but it’s no mistake, Iowa says
College professors slam Iowa’s basketball ad
From recent Gazette archives:
Click on images to enlarge. ‘SLAM DUNK’ ads published on September 14 and September 18 in Gazette; ‘STEAL’ ad published on September 23.
Recent articles about Mark Phelps, basketball coach replacing Keno Davis at Drake April 21, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: Arizona State University, basketball, College Basketball, Drake Bulldogs, Drake University, Keno Davis
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Image via WikipediaFrom Fox Sports:
Drake has hired Arizona State assistant Mark Phelps to replace Keno Davis.According to sources close to the situation, a news conference is expected on Monday. Phelps has spent the last two seasons at Arizona State after …
From East Valley Tribune (Arizona):
After a dozen years with Herb Sendek, Mark Phelps might get his first chance to run a college basketball team.
Phelps, Arizona State’s top assistant, is expected to be named the head coach at Drake early this week, a source familiar with the situation told the Tribune on Sunday.
Phone messages left for Phelps were not immediately returned. …
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NYT on C. Vivian Stringer, Iowa State’s Bill Fennelly March 24, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: Ames (Iowa), basketball, Basketball Coaches, Bill Fennelly, C. Vivian Stringer, Des Moines (Iowa), Iowa State University Cyclones, NCAA Tournament, University of Iowa Hawkeyes, Vivian Stringer, Women's Basketball
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From New York Times:
Wherever he goes, from Algona to Zwingle, Fennelly is following the path blazed by C. Vivian Stringer. She built the University of Iowa women’s program into a national title contender and an attendance leader in the 1980s before leaving to coach the Rutgers women in 1995.
On Monday night, their paths will converge for only the second time since Stringer left Iowa and since Fennelly, a native Iowan, returned. …
“When the brackets came out, one of the very first things I heard was excitement that we were in and that Coach Stringer was coming back to Iowa,” Fennelly said Sunday. “She has a great amount of respect, and deservedly so.” …
Former Linn-Mar star Jason Bohannon featured in article March 22, 2008
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: basketball, College Basketball, Jason Bohannon, Linn-Mar High School, Marion (Iowa), Wisconsin Badgers
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From The Capital Times:
Somebody is always trying to show up Jason Bohannon. …
His name is dirt in Iowa even though Bohannon was a prep superstar at Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa, and his dad, Gordy, was a star quarterback for Hayden Fry and the Hawkeyes.
The hatred Iowans have for Bohannon for spurning former coach Steve Alford and the Hawkeyes goes beyond the intense booing and sneering aimed at his direction when the Badgers play at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. They even boo his younger brothers Zach and Matt, both of whom played for Linn-Mar this year.
“People will boo them for me going to Wisconsin. Stuff like that,” shrugged Bohannon. …
Former Cyclone basketball standout Jamaal Tinsley avoids trial today on fight charges March 17, 2008
Posted by John in Crime/Courts, Sports.Tags: basketball, Community Service, Indiana Pacers, Iowa State University Cyclones, Jamaal Tinsley, Marquis Daniels, NBA, Trials
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From Indianapolis Star:
Two Indiana Pacers placers accepted diversion agreements this morning, avoiding a trial on charges stemming from a bar fight last year.
Jamaal Tinsley and Marquis Daniels [PHOTO] will each serve 32 hours of community service and undergo behavior modification training, prosecutors said. If they go two years without getting in trouble with the law, the charges will be wiped from their records.
Diversion, different from a guilty plea, is similar to pleading “no contest” in some states. …
NYT: Former Iowa coach C. Vivian Stringer among top 5 impacting sports world in 2007 December 29, 2007
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: basketball, C. Vivian Stringer, College Basketball, Don Imus, Iowa Basketball, New York Times, Race relations, Women's Basketball
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From Dec. 30 New York Times:
She persevered after her husband, Bill, died of a heart attack on Thanksgiving in 1992, and less than five months later guided Iowa to the Final Four.
So by the time Imus denigrated her Rutgers players on the air the day after they lost to Tennessee in the national championship game, it was possible that Stringer felt as if she had been here before. …
See also April Gazette article: Turbulent 3 weeks for Stringer.
Shots fired at former Iowa State basketball standout Jamaal Tinsley December 9, 2007
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From Indianapolis Star today:
Jamaal Tinsley of the Pacers and several companions were shot at by someone armed with an assault rifle outside the Conrad Hotel in Downtown Indianapolis early today, wounding a person who was with the athlete.
Police said Pacers equipment manager Joey Qatato, 48, was struck in both elbows as he sat with Tinsley in the player’s Rolls Royce. An official at Methodist Hospital early this afternoon said Qatato had been discharged.
Pacers coach Jim O’Brien said Tinsley was excused from practice today “because he went through a traumatic experience last night and we wanted him to get away from basketball for the day.” …
C.R. native Brenda Frese featured for coaching wins and expecting twins December 9, 2007
Posted by John in Sports.Tags: basketball, Brenda Frese, Cedar Rapids, iowa, Iowa State University, University of Maryland Terps
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From the Washington Post yesterday:
… Already she has stopped running the practices and pacing the sidelines during games and screaming at the top of her lungs for defensive players to get back in position. Looking calmer than most any other coach you’ve ever seen, she sits through games in a black leather office chair. There’s a pillow at her back to cushion a bulging disk. Standing rarely, clapping occasionally, she disseminates her court wisdom through assistants. During timeouts, her chair is rolled to the front of the bench so she can sit while instructing the team.
Of course many women must learn to juggle childbirth and workplace, but coaching high-level college basketball — an increasingly competitive, high-profile, lucrative sport — is unusually demanding, physically and psychologically. And the coaches interviewed for this story agree that someone who does it successfully is a rare bird. …
For Frese, her job is a dream come true. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she played at the University of Arizona, where she graduated in 1993, then was an assistant at Kent State and Iowa State. …
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