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  2. List of professional sportspeople convicted of crimes - Wikipedia

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    Gooden pled guilty to an April 2004 charge that he sped away from a traffic stop and an unrelated March 2005 charge of hitting his girlfriend. He was given 45 days in prison for the latter charge but credited for time served. [242] On April 5, 2006, he was re-sentenced to a year and a day in prison for violating his probation by using cocaine ...

  3. Deaths in May 2024 - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. May 2024 1 Hasna El-Bacharia, 74, Algerian musician. Michael ...

  4. Louis Freeh - Wikipedia

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    An investigation of the August 1992 incident at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in which an FBI sharpshooter killed the wife of Randy Weaver, was ongoing when Freeh joined the FBI as its director. An FBI unit, the Hostage Rescue Team , was present at the incident; Freeh later said that had he been director, he would not have involved the HRT.

  5. Jim Valvano - Wikipedia

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    Valvano became NC State's athletic director in 1986. His overall record at NC State was 209–114 (.647) and his career record as a head coach was 346–210 (.622). Valvano is most recognized for his reaction of running around on the court looking for somebody to hug in the moments after the Wolfpack victory came after the game-winning shot in ...

  6. Tom Jurich - Wikipedia

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    In 2007, Jurich was selected Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal/SportsBusiness Daily National Athletic Director of the year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Jurich was born in Alhambra, California and played kicker at Arcadia High School , at Northern Arizona University, and in one game for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL), after ...

  7. Southern Methodist University football scandal - Wikipedia

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    In the winter of 1975, SMU hired Ron Meyer, an up-and-coming football coach who had previous success at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [4] In the late 1970s, attention around SMU football grew, and in the 1978 offseason the university launched a media campaign which caused its average home attendance to double from 26,000 to 52,000. [5]

  8. Len Bias - Wikipedia

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    The controversy prompted athletic director Dick Dull to resign on October 7, 1986, with Driesell following suit on October 29 after 17 years as coach. The grand jury presiding over the Bias case issued a final report on February 26, 1987, criticizing the University of Maryland's athletic department, admissions office and campus police.

  9. Brian Wickstrom - Wikipedia

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    Brian Wickstrom, (born July 2, 1969) is an American college athletics administrator.Wickstrom served as athletic director at the University of California, Riverside from 2011 to 2013, [1] the University of Louisiana at Monroe from 2013 [2] [3] [4] to 2017, [5] and the University of the Incarnate Word from 2017 to 2019.