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DC Council Poised to Rename High School After Basketball Legend John Thompson
Since before MacArthur High School opened in 2023, community members and local officials have been searching for a new name ...
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John Thompson was a basketball giant, and courage personified
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 ...
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Remembering John Thompson, a college basketball giant who made his voice heard
“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 ...
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Former Georgetown Basketball Coach John Thompson Jr. Remembered As Giant In The Sport
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about baseball and other sports for many national outlets. Thirty-three years after the Villanova Wildcats finished ...
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John Thompson, coach who built Georgetown basketball into national power, dies at 78
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 ...
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How John Thompson’s Proudly Black Georgetown Teams Changed College Basketball – and America
John Thompson Jr. won a single NCAA basketball title. He never appeared in another Final Four after his Georgetown teams reached three national title games in four seasons from 1982 through 1985.
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John Thompson Jr., Legendary Georgetown Basketball Coach, Dies At 78
College basketball has lost a legend. John Thompson Jr., who turned Georgetown University's men's basketball team into a juggernaut and became the first Black coach to win a national men's college ...
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John Thompson Was More — Much More — Than a Basketball Coach
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.
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John Thompson, Hall of Fame Basketball Coach, Dies at 78
By Richard Goldstein John Thompson Jr., the Hall of Fame basketball coach who led Georgetown University to national collegiate prominence and became the first African-American coach to take a team ...
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Sports world mourns death of John Thompson, but if not for fate, he would’ve likely died in Sept. 11 attacks
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Georgetown's John Thompson, the first Black coach to win an NCAA title: He paved it so we had a better chance
“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 ...