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Fifty Years Later, 'Original' Dream Team Awaits Call of Fame

By Chris TomassonApr 2nd 2010 – 4:10PM

No, they weren't as popular as those on the 1992 Dream Team, a team mobbed wherever it went. But the players on the so-called original Dream Team certainly made an impact in their day. Terry Dischinger, a forward on the gold-medal winning 1960 Olympic basketball team, remembers being in New York shortly before the players...

Pete Newell Dies at Age 93

By Shiloh CarderNov 18th 2008 – 12:16AM

You may not know what he looks like, who he was and why people felt he was special enough to teach them but Pete Newell was one of the best coaches college basketball has ever seen.Newell died yesterday at the age on 93.Newell was a legend and held the respect and admiration of the game's other legends. Newell coached for...

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