basketball coach

UConn's Calhoun taking indefinite medical leave

Topix - Sports News  Fri, 02/03/2012 - 16:24

University of Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun is taking an indefinite medical leave of absence, the school announced on Friday.


 

Calhoun taking indefinite medical leave (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Fri, 02/03/2012 - 13:18

University of Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun is taking an indefinite medical leave of absence, the school announced on Friday.

The Hall of Fame coach, who turns 70 in May, has been suffering for several months from spinal stenosis, a lower back condition that causes him severe pain and hampers mobility, according to the release.


 

Special Report: Hookshot

SI.com  Wed, 01/25/2012 - 10:31

On the morning of April 11, 2011, University of San Diego basketball coach Bill Grier received a surprise visit at his home from two FBI agents who told him that one of his former players, USD's alltime leading scorer Brandon Johnson, and another ex-USD player named Brandon Dowdy were being charged in federal court at that very moment with trying to fix games.


 

Syracuse coach Boeheim apologizes to those he offended after Ora...

Topix - Sports News  Fri, 12/02/2011 - 21:42

The beleaguered Syracuse basketball coach said he had talked to some people in the community and wanted to make three points clear after the No.


 

Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke, assistant ki...

SI.com  Fri, 11/18/2011 - 09:20

Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant killed in plane crash


 

OSU hoops coaches die in plane crash

FOXSports.com News  Fri, 11/18/2011 - 08:36

Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash Thursday night.


 

Vols' Pearl suspended eight SEC games

FOXSports.com News  Fri, 11/19/2010 - 11:22

Tennessee Volunteers men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been suspended for the first eight SEC games of the season, conference commissioner Mike Slive announced Friday.


 

Pitino had sex with extortion suspect (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Wed, 07/28/2010 - 12:36

Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino told a jury Wednesday that a woman accused of demanding millions from him had sex with him after whispering to him and unzipping his pants in an empty Italian restaurant.

Pitino testified Wednesday that he met Karen Cunagin Sypher on July 31, 2003, at the restaurant where he'd gone following a golf outing.