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2 ACC regular season (1985, 1989) Awards. ACC Coach of The Year (1989) Arthur Ashe Courage Award (1993) James Thomas Anthony Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. [1] [2] Valvano had a successful coaching career with multiple schools, culminating at NC ...
In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case.The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets.
Jimmy L. Glass (May 27, 1962 – June 12, 1987) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death by the state of Louisiana . Glass originally hailed from Arkansas. [1] He was a high school dropout and had a criminal record. [2] With fellow inmate Jimmy C. Wingo (March 14, 1952 – June 16, 1987), Glass escaped from the Webster ...
The Wolfpack coach who sprinted wildly across the court after his team’s unlikely 1983 championship, and who delivered the famous “Never give up” speech only weeks before dying of cancer ...
Twenty-three years ago, Jim Valvano took the stage during the first ESPY Awards and delivered one of the most iconic speeches in sports history.
The 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 52 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 17, 1983, and ended with the championship game on April 4 at The Pit, then officially known as University Arena, on the campus of the ...
McGirt v. Oklahoma, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case which held that the domain reserved for the Muscogee Nation by Congress in the 19th century has never been disestablished and constitutes Indian country for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, meaning that the State of Oklahoma has no right to prosecute American Indians for crimes allegedly committed ...
Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution . In the case, Hustler magazine ran a ...