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...college basketball better. Excellence begets excellence." The lineage of basketball is even more specific. James Naismith, literally the father of the game, begat Phog Allen, the Kansas coach, who begat Dean Smith, who begat not just Jordan and scores of NBA players but also such notable coaches as Billy Cunningham, Larry Brown, George Karl, Roy Williams and Eddie Fogler. Almost all his former charges remain intensely loyal to him. Jordan, in fact, still wears his blue Tar Heel shorts under his Chicago Bull shorts. "He's a father figure to a lot of players and a lot of people," Jordan...
...Cunningham, a basketball Hall of Famer who played on Smith's first Tar Heel team, says, "The most overused cliche in sports might be 'We're a family,' but at North Carolina, the team truly is a family. Coach Smith treats the last guy on the bench the same way he treats the best player on the team, and he is as concerned about their education as he is about winning. He takes as much pride in the doctors and lawyers he coached as he does in the All-Stars...
...more games, another record. That last win put Carolina into its 11th Final Four. Smith won two national championships, a total that surprises only because it is not higher. He has coached 30 All-Americans, including Michael Jordan, Jerry Stackhouse, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Mitch Kupchak, and Billy Cunningham. Some of them left Dean early. Most of them stayed. Many became his assistants, or head coaches elsewhere. Smith was always in the Dean Dome, the capital of ACC basketball, coaching the Tar Heels...
...sending the billion-dollar Mars Observer probe spinning into the void. Last Tuesday was Surveyor's turn to prime its lines, and despite some well-bitten nails in Mission Control, this time things went perfectly. "To see this event pass successfully is a great relief," said project manager Glenn Cunningham after the pressurization was done. Two days later, the ship fired its engine and entered orbit...
...goes well, Surveyor will operate into the year 2000. Even before then, NASA's next Mars ships--a lander and an orbiter set to launch in 1998--should have arrived and begun their own surveys. "We're here for a long visit," said Cunningham. "We're here to stay, essentially." It will be a while before Mars is lonely again...