Yet, within a decade, Thompson built the Georgetown program into the nation's best. It is impossible to fairly discuss the Big East and college basketball in the 1980s without John Thompson being ...

John Thompson Jr., the Washington native who elevated Georgetown University basketball to national prominence, earned Hall of Fame honors and carved a place in history as the first African ...

like the famous deflated basketball in his office. Brewer: John Thompson challenged America. Respect, not fear, defines his legacy. A visit to that McDonough Gym office was a graduate course in ...

That’s when the Legend of John Thompson — the basketball coach who got in the face of an infamous drug dealer and told him to keep the hell away from his program — grew even larger.

“John Thompson did what he thought was right ... Well, they hired me to coach basketball. If I say I want my kids to get an education, it’s perceived as an extraordinary thing, that I ...

“Coach Mac’s adviser was the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith. And John McClendon mentored my father, and my dad – in his own way – mentored coach Thompson,” Clarence Gaines Jr ...

He had no idea what he was creating when he grabbed one before a basketball game in early ... just think the sweater won all the games." John Thompson, Georgetown’s Hall of Fame coach, decided ...

Twenty-two years ago, Hall of Fame Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson took a chance on Allen Iverson — a young, undeniably gifted high school athlete with three felony convictions ...

EXCLUSIVE: Alcon Entertainment has joined RTG Features and May 3rd Films for their upcoming docuseries on legendary basketball coach John Thompson. Alcon is co-financing and co-producing alongside ...