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...fired from his last coaching position at St. John’s six games into the 2003 season, becoming the first basketball coach in the history of the Big East Conference to be fired during a season. He was let go in the wake of the arrests of two players and a poor 2-4 start.Last spring, the NCAA placed St. John’s men’s basketball on two years’ probation and docked the school one basketball scholarship for this season because of a financial violation under Jarvis’ watch involving a member...
...single-handedly putting Louisiana's tiny Grambling State University on the national map. Until 2003, when John Gagliardi of St. John's topped him, his 408-165-15 record over 56 years made him the winningest coach in college football. But he was proudest of the 200-plus players he sent to the NFL, including Paul Younger, the league's first player from an all-black school, in 1949, and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams, who in 1998 succeeded Robinson as Grambling coach...
...League season this weekend against Cornell and Columbia. The Crimson (2-11) has won the Ancient Eight title each of the past four years and has not dropped an Ivy match since 2002. However, Harvard became the victim of a large turnover this year and returned only one player, captain and No. 3 singles player Preethi Mukundan, leaving the fate of the championship up in the air. Nevertheless, Mukundan believes that the non-Ivy matches have given her new team the means to succeed. “The first part of the season really helped us to get used...
...Basketball yesterday at the team’s annual awards banquet. Unger, who will also take his spot as starting pitcher for the Crimson baseball squd this Spring, was chosen by ballot selection. Unger aslo receieved the Hamilton Fish ‘10 Award, given to the most-improved player on the team. He shared the award with sophomore Andrew Pusar. Unger will look to lead where senior Jim Goffredo left off. Goffredo, who led the team in scoring last season, will leave a hole in the Crimson’s offensive output, which Unger will look...
...Tian was different. Other athletes who had disagreements with the administration all end up apologizing. Wang Zhizhi, the former NBA player, had to make a public apology last April before sports officials would allow him to play in the China Basketball Association. He had been frozen out for four years after disobeying orders to return to China to practice in 2002. Tian's ex-girlfriend, Guo Jingjing, made a public self-criticism in 2005 to avoid being kicked out of the national team for "attending too many social activities." But the "Prince of Divers" as he is called, would never...