Topic: Don Haskins
Don Haskins died last week. Don (The Bear) Haskins was, depending on who you ask, a grumpy S.O.B., a compassionate soul who helped those less fortunate and stayed true to those who were loyal to him, a champion for civil ...
<div id="subtitle">UTEP hires Tim Floyd in return to Texas for basketball coach still under cloud from USC tenure</div><div><p>Tim Floyd is coming back to El Paso and couldn't be happier about returning to the school that ...
The article reflects on the lifetime achievements of late basketball coach Don Haskins. Haskins started his career as assistant coach in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Excerpt from Article: Hero is a word that comes up in sports often. In ...
Pete Newell strode dugouts, too, and local man recalls coachs fire Its a good thing giant shadows cast by coaching icons cant shoot or play defense or the UNLV basketball team might have found a heap of trouble this week.On Monday ...
Correction: Obit-Haskins storyIn initial versions of a Sept. 7 obituary for Hall of Fame college basketball coach Don Haskins, The Associated Press erroneously reported the surname of a member of Haskins' 1966 national championship team. His correct name is Harry Flournoy, not ...
Thousands fill Don Haskins Arena in Texas to remember coach fondly recalled as 'The Bear'Thousands of people filled the Don Haskins Center on Thursday night to remember the basketball coach in a memorial service that took on the atmosphere of a ...
UTEP says former Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins has diedDon Haskins, credited with helping break color barriers in college sports in 1966 when he used five black starters to win a national basketball title for Texas Western, died Sunday. He was ...
Assemblyman Morse Arberry, D-Las Vegas, chairman of the Interim Finance Committee, said it could result in a jail term.But Mendy Elliott, deputy chief of staff for Gov. Jim Gibbons, told the Interim Finance Committee it is proposing that Loux repay the ...
