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...coach of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team that spawned the globalization of basketball, Chuck Daly didn't call a single timeout over the tournament's eight games. When you have Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on your squad, and are beating the awestruck Angolans, Brazilians and Puerto Ricans by an average of 43.8 points, any coach worth his whistle would have just let them play. But even if the Dream Team had been challenged, Daly, who died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday morning, at 78, might not have seen the need to lecture his team. Unlike most...
...coach massaged pro egos better than Daly, who won 638 games over 13 NBA seasons. Just look at Daly's Bad Boys, the thuggish band of Detroit Pistons who elbowed, kicked, brawled, their way to back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990. Great teams often take the character of their head coach but, in Detroit's case, the polar opposite was true. Within basketball, no one disparaged Daly. He was a blue-collar Pennsylvania guy who just worked his way up the coaching tree, from Punxsutawney (Pa.) High School, to Penn, where he won four straight Ivy League...
...finishing 1-2 in the men’s competition and the Tigers doing the same on the women’s side.“I was really pleased with the men and women’s team’s performances,” coach Jason Saretsky said. “[Our success] is a continuation of what we did in the indoor season. It’s great to see the women’s team consistently vie in the top half of the team and have a real chance to be in the top three...
...Sunday morning UMass wanted it more than we did," he said. "We didn't execute the strategies that our coach was giving us. We knew what they were going to bring...and we just didn't adjust...
...second place, four seconds behind Columbia. Radcliffe’s lightweight team had similar success on the Charles Saturday, soundly beating MIT in the varsity and second varsity events to claim the first-ever Linda Muri Cup. The cup, named after Harvard freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Murri, who herself has won three world championships and 18 national championships, honored the MIT and Harvard grad for her contribution to the rowing community. “I think she’s the most decorated lightweight rower in the US, so it’s an incredible honor...