Dean Smith: Saying Goodbye to One of the Good Guys

Posted Feb 9, 2015
Sadly, Dean Smith's death comes at a time when the sport of college basketball is at a crossroads. In this current era, education is seemingly an afterthought: Ideals like teamwork, sportsmanship and selflessness are all but absent, and men like Smith – who stand up for social change, regardless of status or sponsorship deals – are few and far between. Rarer still are those that do it while eschewing the spotlight. (Rolling Stone)

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