Dean Smith Basketball News & Bio
| Name: | Dean Smith | | Hometown: | Emporia, KS | | High School: | Emporia | | Born: | February 28, 1931 | | Died: | February 7, 2015 | | Notes: | Basketball Hall of Fame, 4x NCAA Coach of the Year, 1982 NCAA Championship coach, 879 wins |
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Thousands expected at Dean Smith memorial SundayThe public is invited to a memorial service for Dean Smith Sunday at 2 p.m. at the basketball arena named in his honor. Smith, who...
Fri Feb 20, 2015
Dean Smith an irreplaceable treasureThe year was 1994. Having barely lost to 3rd District U.S. Congresswoman Marilyn Lloyd two years earlier, Zach Wamp decided to again run for the...
Fri Feb 20, 2015
Bob Seymour, Sylvia Hatchell and others remember Dean Smith (audio)
Thoughts, stories, and memories are still coming in honoring of the late legendary UNC basketball coach Dean Smith...
Fri Feb 20, 2015
Lessons of Dean Smith Compiled in David Chadwick's Book
Pastor David Chadwick, Senior Pastor of Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, calls Dean Smith a great coach and a better person. He wrote a...
Thu Feb 19, 2015
‘There’s a guy named Dean Smith on the phone and he wants to talk to you …’
I remember the date as though it happened just yesterday. Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1996. I was still a young, know-it-all sportswriter working in my second...
Thu Feb 19, 2015