Wednesday, February 11, 2015

R.I.P., Tark the Shark

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In what is arguably the most grueling week of the school year, we lost two college basketball coaching legends.

Earlier this week we said goodbye to Dean Smith.

This morning, we lost Jerry Tarkanian. Those early 90’s Runnin’ Rebels are still the greatest college basketball team that I have ever seen.1

Rest in peace, Tark.

  1. A lot of people say Larry Johnson should’ve shot that 3. I say Greg Anthony shouldn’t have fouled out. Looking back, that was actually a crazy time for a young teen to be a sports fan — Mike Tyson got knocked out (which by the way, was 25 years ago today), Duke upended the 34-0 Runnin’ Rebels, Michael beat Magic for his first ring, then Magic got HIV and retired. A real “bye, bye, Miss America Pie” stretch of sports history. [↩]
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