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Perhaps the most innovative remedy for undereducated athletes is Northeastern's University Degree Completion Program, started last year by Political Scientist Richard Lapchick (son of the redoubtable St. John's University basketball coach Joe Lapchick). Under U.D.C.P., 27 Boston-area professional players finished credit courses given by Northeastern professors. This year the program has expanded to a consortium that includes ten other schools and extends to ex-collegians who never made it to the pros...
Though such steps are heartening, concerned academics like Harry Edwards remain impatient at the slow pace of fundamental change. Berkeley, which has joined the Lapchick consortium, has not yet enrolled any local pros. Neighboring University of San Francisco has enlisted just one. Meanwhile, the majority of major sports colleges go on shuffling their players through, mainly to the limbo of underqualified, often marginally employed ex-jocks. "It's a plantation system," growls Edwards. "They use up (the athletes), and when they're finished, there's no place...
...spacious manger by the name of Madison Square Garden on the night of November 24, 1978 and the midwife at courtside was a personable young coach by the name of P.J. Carlesimo. On that night the tiny school in Staten Island defeated nationally ranked Alabama in the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament by a score...
...backcourt wizard, who was just named the top senior college basketball player in the country, was not even invited to participate. "I didn't hear anything about the Hall of Fame game," DiGregario said yesterday after leaving the Hall of Fame luncheon in Springfield where he received the Joe Lapchick trophy as the nation's top senior basketball player...
Died. Joe Lapchick, 70, basketball great, both as a player and a coach; of a heart attack; in Monticello, N.Y. Tall for his time at 6 ft. 5 in., Lapchick started with the Original Celtics during the 1920s, helped them to so many lopsided victories that the American Basketball League finally ordered them to disband. But it was as a coach that he contributed most to the game. Kind, almost fatherly with his players -and a nervous wreck when he watched them in action-Lapchick brought New York's St. John's University to national prominence...