Since before MacArthur High School opened in 2023, community members and local officials have been searching for a new name ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Thompson Jr., who died Sunday night at 78, was a towering presence in college basketball, both in physical stature and impact on the court. Most important, according to esteemed peers who ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...