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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Coach Dean Smith, retired coach of the UNC BB team, has passed.
@ZacEllis:
Sad news per @UNC_Basketball: Former head coach Dean Smith has passed away at age 83. http://t.co/oGqdS0sbKO
Here is an article about what he did:
http://www.sportsinblackandwhite.com/2012/10/27/meet-dean-smith/
A salute to a true warrior. He stood up for equality when few did. He was much more than a basketball coach.
RIP Coach Smith....
You fought the good fight.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Had the guts to speak up about the death penalty, among many other things.
head and shoulders above most of the automatons coaching these days.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)That said, I had nothing but great respect for Coach Smith.
He had Alzheimer's so in one way this is a blessing.
Sad at the same time.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)NC is going to go into mourning now.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)Gothmog
(145,334 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)who not only talked the talk, he walked the walk.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Had a 96% graduation rate.
Spoke out against the Vietnam War.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Coach Dean Smith, Champion of College Basketball and of Racial Equality, Dies at 83 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/sports/ncaabasketball/dean-smith-longtime-university-of-north-carolina-basketball-coach-dies-at-83.html?_r=0
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and a damned fine human being. RIP, sir.