Today is Thanksgiving Day. Here are some individuals in sports that I am thankful for. TONY BENNETT, University of Virginia men’s basketball coach – This will be a challenging year in the ACC for Virginia basketball. But the first-year head coach of the Cavaliers, Tony Bennett, will do a great job in Charlottesville. In addition,…
Read More »In his book Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof records the events surrounding the notorious “Black Sox” scandal in Major League Baseball. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes from gamblers in exchange for “throwing” (intentionally losing) the 1919 World Series. All eight players were banned from baseball for life because of…
Read More »It used to be that football dominated the Thanksgiving weekend. Not anymore. The Thanksgiving holiday is being impacted by college basketball games—a lot of them.
Over the next few days, most of the top teams in the nation will be playing in nationally televised tournaments.
On this edition of Sports Spectrum Today, we talk about college basketball with a longtime coach, C. J. Woollum. C. J. coaches at Christopher Newport University.
He shares his perspective on the importance of holiday tournaments.
Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks to God for our many blessings. It’s also a long weekend for watching football and taking in a lot of college basketball. Start it off listening to this conversation with C. J. Woollum on Sports Spectrum Today.
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