George Karl To Speak At Cancer Fundraiser

Posted Oct 4, 2012
Denver Nuggets coach, two-time cancer survivor and UNC basketball alumnus George Karl will join the speaker lineup at the eighth annual Fast break Against Cancer with Coach Roy Williams on the morning of Friday Oct. 12. Karl, a 1973 graduate of UNC, played basketball under Coach Dean Smith. At UNC, he received the Patterson Medal and was in the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of the Old Well. (GoHeels.com)

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