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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
Dean Smith

Dean Smith’s caring touch, penchant for relationships shines through in death
As Michael Jordan often has done, Phil Ford, the college star in the 1970s who conducted UNC’s famed Four Corners offense and became the No...

True greatness
Whenever somebody famous dies, writers wax poetic in obituaries about how great a person he or she was. Even in cases when the deceased wasn't...

Chapel Hill mourns Dean Smith
The corned beef sandwich was his favorite. He almost always ordered it to go. Dean Smith didn’t want anyone to treat him differently or let...

Dean Smith touched the lives of 12-year-olds and basketball icons alike
He wasn’t ready. So he called the one man who always was. “I called him the night before I went to Kansas for the interview,”...

Charlie Scott: ‘It’s A Sad Day For Society’ (audio)
On Sunday, Feb. 8 former University of North Carolina basketball player Charlie Scott stopped by CBS Sports Radio to discuss his memories of his former...

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