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Valvano was a three-sport athlete at Seaford High School in Seaford on Long Island and graduated in 1963. [9] Football coach Vince Lombardi was Valvano's role model. Valvano told an ESPY audience, on March 3, 1993, that he took some of Lombardi's inspirational speeches out of the book Commitment to Excellence, and used them with
Hester then channeled legendary college basketball coach Jim Valvano's famous "never give up, don't ever give up" speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards only months before he died of cancer.
His books have won various awards: Sports Illustrated placed Beer & Circus on its list of "100 Best Sports Books of All-time" (Dec. 16, 2002) and Frank DeFord named Shake Down the Thunder as the second best sports history book (Dec. 16, 2002).
Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown said he "influenced a lot of coaches", and coach Mike Krzyzewski added that he "taught pressure man-to-man defense as well as anyone has ever done." [ 15 ] Upon Tarkanian's retirement, future Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun proclaimed him "one of the best teachers of defense in the last 25 to 30 years of basketball."
While Knight dedicated some of his speech to praising Trump, he also went on several tangents that appeared to have little to do with his endorsement. Legendary Hoosiers basketball coach delivered ...
Grantland Rice's Sportlights ad in Exhibitor's Trade Review (Nov. 1924 – Feb. 1925). In 1907, Rice saw what he would call the greatest thrill he ever witnessed in his years of watching sports during the Sewanee–Vanderbilt football game: the catch by Vanderbilt center Stein Stone, on a double-pass play then thrown near the end zone by Bob Blake to set up the touchdown run by Honus Craig ...
One of the most revered coaches in the history of sports, [2] Wooden was beloved by his former players, among them Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Bill Walton. Wooden was renowned for his short, simple inspirational messages to his players (including his "Pyramid of Success") many of which were directed at how to be a success in ...
Pope's success with his 1954 book Football's Greatest Coaches allowed him to leave the Atlanta area and move down to Miami, [5] where he accepted a lucrative position at the Miami Herald in 1956. Brought on as a columnist and assistant editor, he was made Sports Editor within the year when the previous Editor chose to retire. [1]