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ESPNThe late Jim Valvano, left, and Dick Vitale were very good friends.
I know that Jimmy Valvano is looking down from heaven, watching a lot of college basketball and smiling.
He is probably proud of his friends. After all, this is Jimmy V Week at
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ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/dickvitale/news/story?id=5878982
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Founded in 1993 by the late college basketball coach Jim Valvano and the ubiquitous television network ESPN, The V Foundation for Cancer Research has raised more than $90 million to fight the disease that took the life of its namesake and continues to
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/news/s_660321.html?source=rss&feed=31
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No sense in overpaying the guy when we have guys that are able to play left field. On top of that he wasn’t the most impressive AL hitter last year. If we spend that much money on a player I want a guaranteed 30+ HR and 100+ RBI’s. I just don’t think
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Sports Blogs
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AP File photoJim Valvano, with net around neck, coach of the North Carolina St. Wolfpack celebrates with players the NCAA Tournament Championship, April 4, 1983. NC State defeated Houston in the finals in Albuquerque, NM.Tom Hanks famously said there’s
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Syracuse.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/sports-talk/2009/12/dont_forget_jimmy_v_dont_ever.html
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I have seen the enemy and the enemy is…UT Pan American? No, not
really, especially when viewed in the context of a 104 to 42 drubbing
versus the juggernaut from The Valley.
Sorry if you were getting the 61.5, what a bad beat. But seriously,
it’s tough
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/310376-game-review-texas-longhorns-vs-utpa-broncs
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Brian Kinel writes in the Sports Talk blog about Jim Valvano and the V Foundation for cancer research: "Tom Hanks famously said there’s no crying in baseball. Maybe there isn’t. But there is crying in sports. I know because it happens to me every year
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Syracuse.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/2009/12/sports_talk_blog_on_jimmy_v_we.html
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After some careful consideration I decided I would be remiss not to talk about Jim Valvano in the wake of another Jimmy V Classic doubleheader at Madison Square Garden.
I will be recapping games and events throughout the season, so to take one day, one
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SLAM Online
http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-hs/college/2009/12/first-take-jimmy-vs-legacy/
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...Valvano is in my opinion the most inspiring coach in sports history and will be hard to be taken down from my pedestal. Jim Valvano was born on March 10, 1946. Valvano played college basketball at Rutgers from 1964-1967. In his first year out of college, Valvano...
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/305205-dont-give-upthe-top-five-most-inspirational-coaches
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell could envision 2010 for senior Jessica Breland. The conclusion of an All-ACC and All-America season. An early selection in the WNBA draft. A future making a living playing
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ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=voepel_mechelle&id=4724537&campaign=rss&source=WOMENBBHeadlines
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Poor shooting was contagious last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.
It was not just the Florida Gators that could not hit their shots in the Rutgers women’s basketball team’s 51-38 victory.
The Scarlet Knights shot 35.3 percent from the floor
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The Daily Targum
http://www.dailytargum.com/sports/rough-night-compounded-by-shooting-woes-1.2115545
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Matt Way is the creator and author of Third and Blog, a sports website dedicated to everything sports.
That is the famous quote given by Jim Valvano during his speech at the 1993 ESPYs. Valvano was accepting the very first Arthur Ashe Courage
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The V Foundation for Cancer Research, one of the nation's leading cancer research fundraising organizations, announced today that the 2009 V Scholar grant that was recently awarded to Dr. Azam Mohammad at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital will be in
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NBC 17.com
http://wake.mync.com/site/wake/news/story/44102/The_V_Foundation_Awards__________Grant_in_Memory_of_Teen_That_Lost_His_Batt
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...decision,' " Ruland said with great pride. Ruland, true to his antithetical nature, chose Iona and its brash young coach, Jim Valvano, over more well-known programs, and it didn't take him or Valvano long to vault the sleepy Christian Brothers-run school in...
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110403427.html?wprss=rss_print/sports
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The Miracle Mets. Jim Valvano’s NCAA championship against Phi Slamma Jamma. The U.S. Hockey Team. We remember those magical underdog victories, sport’s versions of David and Goliath.
An ego-driven, chili-dip won’t let the broken playoff system clean
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Biloxi Sun Herald
http://www.sunherald.com/sports/story/1648951.html
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By the way, Gus. "Survive and advance"? That also was coined by Jim Valvano in the same year.
Last year, EA Sports' FIFA finally managed to surpass long-time nemesis Pro Evo and emerge as the number one football
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Kotaku
http://kotaku.com/5373349/its-never-too-early-for-march-badness
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Ian O'Connor of The Record: "A tall, dashing Russian billionaire said to appreciate fast jets and faster women, Mikhail Prokhorov has come rushing to the Nets' rescue, pledging to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at Ratner for the right to ferry
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ESPN
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-44-88/First-Cup--Thursday.html
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To a younger generation of hoops fans and ballers, the name David Thompson doesn't resonate.
To most, his name would likely get confused with John Thompson.
But thanks to Michael Jordan, David Thompson has been reborn, as fleeting as it might be.
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Canoe
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Basketball/NBA/2009/09/09/10801141-sun.html?cid=rsssportsbasketball
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Jim Boeheim has coached the Syracuse University men's basketball team for the past 33 seasons, led the Orange to the NCAA national championship in 2002-03, and won a gold medal in Beijing last summer as an assistant coach on the U.S. Olympic
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Myrtle Beach Sun News
http://www.thesunnews.com/sports/story/1034921.html
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Has anyone ever moved you so much that you became resolved to make a change in your life?
I recently have seen a theme repeat itself through a couple of individuals.
A version of the ESPY Awards was airing, and I tuned in just in time to watch the
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CJOnline
http://www.cjonline.com/opinion/2009-08-02/column_let_their_actions_inspire
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NIAGARA FALLS —
Niagara Power manager Sam Kirby did his best Jim Valvano Wednesday night at Sal Maglie Stadium.
Unfortunately, the message came after another disappointing New York Collegiate Baseball League loss, this time 4-0 to visiting Alfred.
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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
http://www.lockportjournal.com/sports/gnnsports_story_203235537.html
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The pairings for the Dec. 8 doubleheader were announced Wednesday.
This will be the 15th annual Jimmy V Classic and the seventh played in New York City. The games are part of the fundraising effort for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, which is
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CBS Sports
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...319-0441 or log onto www.golfclassic.org. The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded in 1993 by ESPN and the late Jim Valvano, legendary North Carolina State basketball coach and ESPN commentator. Since 1993, The Foundation has raised more than $80 million...
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NBC 17.com
http://wake.mync.com/site/wake/news/story/36984/Lyle_Lovett_to_Headline______V_Gala
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Information locations on-site at Santa Anita about the Foundation
Involvement with the Thursday kickoff Breeders' Cup Winner's Circle Celebration
Activities on and off-site that will allow fans, corporations and private donors to participate in the
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ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/news/story?id=4221182&campaign=rss&source=HORSEHeadlines
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Dick Vitale’s career is basketball. His fame as a coach-turned-ESPN announcer has earned him a place in the Hall of Fame.
But, his passion is helping to find a cure for cancer. He was inspired by his friend, the late Jim Valvano, to “never give up” on
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Bradenton Herald
http://www.bradenton.com/entertainment/story/1456989.html
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Before game time North Carolina State Coach Jim Valvano ran the tape of the 1983 championship. Not only did he want to get his squad properly motivated to play the top-seeded Tar Heels but he wanted to drive his game plan home. Once again, Valvano
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/152859-all-time-rosters-ncaa-tournament-round-two-day-one-recaps
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And he started a foundation, Shodor, with the aim of improving math and science education.
"I was no Jim Valvano," he says. "My goal was not to cure cancer but to do what I could for science education."
Now Shodor, which started in a small office
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The News & Observer
http://www.newsobserver.com/166/story/1472490.html
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RALEIGH, N.C. — An urgent phone call sent Ina Wiggins scrambling to Reynolds Coliseum, where she arrived to an unsettling sight in February 2007.
North Carolina State coach Kay Yow was lying down, stretched across several chairs with an ambulance en
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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What stood out in the annual root canal that is the McDonald's All-American Game, a talent showcase which looks more and more like a soccer game for 6-year-olds, where everyone gravitates towards the ball, rather than an actual basketball game:
The UNC
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The News & Observer
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/checking-out-the-new-big-macs
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File Photograph A game to be remembered always was Villanova's 1985 shocker over Georgetown in the NCAA final. Here, Ed Pinckney (54) and Gary McLain lead the postgame cheers for the Wildcats.
How about that Villanova-Pitt game on Saturday?
Contact
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Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/20090402_Morning_Bytes__10_unforgettable_games.html
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It's basketball in March. But except for the backboard-glass-breaking, eardrum-shaking, holla-for-a-dolla screaming of Dick Vitale, where has all the madness gone?
Steel-toe work boots are in.
The teams kicking tush and taking names are top dogs, not
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12020747?source=rss
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...Whenever that ubiquitous clip of Jim Valvano wildly celebrating an improbable NCAA championship is shown this month, as it surely will be, Dane Suttle might wince. He might grit his teeth. Nothing against the late North Carolina State basketball coach, but...
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Los Angeles Times
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/sports/~3/HcrbcYizx8M/la-sp-crowe-nest23-2009mar23,0,1018843.column
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NCAA tournament games will be played in Portland beginning Thursday, which begs this trivia question: When was the last time a significant college basketball tournament game was played in Oregon?
Well, maybe it was 1983, when early-round games in the
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Salem Statesman-Journal
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090316/COLUMN0301/903160308/1064
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Jim Christian had a front-row seat for Kent State’s 2002 NCAA Tournament run.
"Some people don’t like the word 'Cinderella’ — but I loved it," said Christian, TCU’s men’s basketball coach who was an assistant on the ’02 Kent State team that reach the
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/story/1258560.html
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CARSON, Calif. -- Los Angeles Galaxy head coach/general manager Bruce Arena couldn't help but think about late college basketball coach Jim Valvano when he embarked on his offseason makeover of the squad.
The Galaxy had finished 2008 with an 8-13-9
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MLSnet - Major League Soccer
http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20090314&content_id=225562&vkey=news_mls&fext=.jsp
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"Don't give up ... don't ever give up!"
Some athletes wear their hearts on their sleeves. The Columbia Falls Wildcats wear their hearts, the late coach Jim Valvano's words ... and the name "Finny" ... on their warmup shirts.
Today when they face
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Great Falls Tribune
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090313/SPORTS/903130344/1006/SPORTS
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Eric Fleming, Contributing Writer
Every year, the NCAA tournament releases its brackets -- four regions of 16 teams, seeded 1-16. And every year, offices around the country drop in productivity because so many people are focused on the games.
One
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Local6.com
http://www.clickorlando.com/college-tournament/18497927/detail.html
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CARY, N.C. Having fought through the adversity of three season-ending injuries and several others throughout the year, Ole Miss has put itself in position to make a run for a third straight postseason appearance entering the home stretch of the regular
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Ole Miss Sports
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"This is the ninth year of the award, and, once again, the nominees capture the "Never Give Up" spirit of The V Foundation," Valvano continued. "I would be honored to have my brother"s name be remembered with each and every one of
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Mountain West Conference Official Athletic Site
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Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Joseph Buono, who was known as J.B., worked at Iona for more than 50 years. He died Saturday at 97.
College sports are forever transient, with players graduating, coaches constantly getting hired and fired and great
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The New York Times
http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/a-legend-passes-at-iona/
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -The door to Kay Yow's office in Reynolds Coliseum remains open, the lights on inside. It's as though the Hall of Fame coach has merely stepped away from her desk to grab lunch or run a brief errand.
Less than three weeks after her
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MSNBC Sports
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/29185131/
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Who would you like us to say this is from?
What is your email address?
What email address would you like us to send it to?
If someone asked Fran Baldwin to name the N.C. State women’s basketball coach, she couldn’t do it.
Yow, who coached the team
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Fayetteville Observer
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=317174
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You've seen the college basketball coaches roaming the sidelines in the suits and the sneakers.
Now Coaches Versus Cancer, one of the legacies of late North Carolina State basketball Coach Jim Valvano, is trickling down to the high school level.
Los
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Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/2009/01/boys-basketb-95.html
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The weather may be getting colder where you live, but the college basketball season is just getting warm. All teams are now knee-deep in conference play and the lay of the land is becoming a little more certain. A team like Wake Forest is showing why
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SLAM Online
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"For us, the last couple years, the one thing we've developed is a chip on our shoulder," Scheyer said. "Going into a game like this, or going into any game, we just feel like we have something to prove."
As shocking as it may be to hear a member of
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The News & Observer
http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1382018.html
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The schemes, designed to cool one or two opposing players, aren't as frequently utilized these days as in the past. Lowe contends the box-and-one or triangle-and-two are higher risk now partly because of the quality shooters on most teams.
"Some years
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The News & Observer
http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/story/1380069.html
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MULLENS — Jacqueline A. “Jackie” Adams, 80, of Mullens died Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, in Huntington while visiting with her family.
Born Jan. 10, 1928, in Mullens, she was the daughter of the late Robert P. and Georgia P. Clowers Christian.
Jackie was
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Beckley Register-Herald
http://www.register-herald.com/obituaries/local_story_366210445.html
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Yogi Berra said, "It's not over 'til it's over."
Jim Valvano said, "Don't give up. Don't ever give up."
And all athletic directors said - or at least the smart ones said - "We'll evaluate the program after the season is over, and not before."
GREAT
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Hattiesburg American
http://hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20081223/SPORTS/812230307/1006/rss02
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“Trees will tap dance, elephants will drive in the Indianapolis 500 and Orson Welles will skip breakfast, lunch and dinner before North Carolina State finds a way to beat Houston.”
-Washington Post, April 4, 1983
“Call up the elephants, baby. Teach
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First Draft
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/12/laugh-think-cry.html
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...An old showman like Jim Valvano undoubtedly would have appreciated the carnival atmosphere that awaits tonight at the Garden in the tournament dedicated to his memory. You've got two college basketball games, three nationally ranked teams and one Stephen Curry....
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New York Post
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12092008/sports/college/curry_adds_spice_143310.htm
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...ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer. The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded in 1993 by ESPN and the late Jim Valvano, legendary North Carolina State basketball coach and ESPN commentator. Since 1993, The Foundation has raised more than $80...
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