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Coach John Chaney was much more than a basketball coach at Temple University. When President Peter J. Liacouras hired Chaney, it was an important step in making diversity one of Temple's special contributions to higher education. And Coach Chaney was more than coach, more than mentor, more than father-figure, more than counselor - and finishing their education was, to Chaney, perhaps even more important than winning a game. Or national championship. When President Liacouras asked me to make all the arrangements for alumni and the basketball team to fly to Los Angeles for a national tournament...
Just A Minute: We've Already Lost so Much in 2021, Including Lorenzo Washington Taking a moment to reflect on some of the icons and legends of the sports world who have left us over the past few weeks Author: Feb 16, 2021 Normally, we take a moment to remember whom we lost at the end of the year, or with awards shows. But there's been nothing normal over the last year, as we close in on the anniversary of sports shutting down during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. We're only about six weeks into 2021, and the list of people who have died in the sports world over that brief t...
WHYY By Updated at 6:10 p.m. John Chaney’s body lay at center court Monday morning as mourners filed past and Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” played softly through Temple University’s Liacouras Center. Some stood and muttered. Others kneeled and crossed themselves. Each — in their own quiet, reverent way — paid tribute to the basketball coach who became a Philadelphia icon. “He was a visionary,” said Lewis Fields, who played under Chaney when the coach was at Cheney State University in the 1970s. Chaney died on January 29, a week after his 89th birthday. His public viewing took pla...
Keeping Score: Chaney kept things interesting Published: 2/5/2021 7:56:36 PM Modified: 2/5/2021 7:56:31 PM Good morning! John Chaney’s death last week rekindled memories of the night he threatened to put UMass coach John Calipari six feet under. It happened 27 years ago next Saturday, after UMass beat Temple 56-55 on a short jumper by Mike Williams with three seconds left. It was Calipari’s fourth win in five games against Temple, after Chaney’s teams had beaten Calipari’s Minutemen nine straight. It wasn’t some run-of-the-mill A-10 game in the middle of winter. No indeed, it was p...