GLENDALE, Ariz. — Sasha Stefanovic spends a lot of time with his former teammate, P.J. Thompson, late at night around the Purdue basketball office. “Scheming things, drawing up plays,” Stefanovic said ...
John Thompson didn’t want to be first. Being first wasn’t what validated the discipline, the consistency, the bone-crushing intimidation of “Hoya Paranoia,” the program he spearheaded at Georgetown ...
John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, has died.
Allen Iverson paid tribute to the late John Thompson on Monday hours after the former Georgetown coach’s family announced the legend had died. Iverson was on Thompson’s Hoyas squad for two seasons ...
More than three decades before the Milwaukee Bucks refused to play in protest of an issue rooted in race, John Thompson refused to coach in protest of an issue rooted in race. It was January 1989. The ...
John is a born and raised Alaskan, whose passion for broadcast journalism led him to Alaska's News Source. His current positions include anchor and multimedia journalist. He got the taste for ...
Lou Carnesecca began his legendary second stint at St. John’s in 1973. John Thompson arrived at Georgetown in 1972. The Hall of Fame coaches battled for two decades, wrestling for control of the Big ...
John Douglas Thompson as Prospero and Nora Eschenheimer as Miranda in rehearsal for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's "The Tempest" on Boston Common July 21-Aug. 8. (Courtesy Evgenia Eliseeva) The ...