Dikembe Mutombo, a towering 7-foot-2 center who starred at Georgetown University and became one of the NBA’s greatest shot blockers, died of brain cancer at the age of 58.
John Thompson
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Recording the life story of a historic coach
Jesse Washington spent roughly the last two years of John Thompson’s life helping to write the late coach’s autobiography ‘ Came as a Shadow.’
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Parting tributes to a basketball coaching legend
‘John Thompson made men. He showed them how to be men and showed them how they could make men.’
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Former Georgetown coach John Thompson passes
John Thompson, the legendary former basketball coach of the Georgetown Hoyas, passed on Monday at the age of 78.