RIP Jim O'Connell: The world is less funny today
Posted Jul 12, 2018
Based out of the AP’s main office in New York, Jim O’Connell established himself as one of the nation’s foremost college basketball experts. He was as much a front-and-center figure at the Final Four as James Naismith. But Oc was so much more. He was one of the last guard of “old school” sports writers who will simply cease to exist after his generation passes.
(TMG College Sports)
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