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    Anthony Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. Valvano had a successful...
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  • brother of Jim Jim Valvano (1946–1993), American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster This page lists people with the surname Valvano. If an...
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    coaching tenures of Everett Case (1946–1965), Norm Sloan (1967–1980), and Jim Valvano (1980–1990). NC State has produced some of the ACC's best players, including...
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  • Bob Valvano (born January 29, 1957) is a former college basketball coach and an American sportscaster based in Louisville, Kentucky. During the college-basketball...
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  • [better source needed] The game, which saw North Carolina State, led by coach Jim Valvano, upset heavily favored Houston 54-52 when Lorenzo Charles caught an airballed...
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    studio with Bob Ley, John Saunders, Tirico, and Chris Fowler as well as Jim Valvano. Basketball University of Detroit named their basketball court "Dick...
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    Center. Abatemarco was impressed and arranged for Webb to meet head coach Jim Valvano, who offered Webb a scholarship. In college, his vertical leap was measured...
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  • college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster Jim Valvano. In 1993, ESPN partnered with Valvano to create the V Foundation which presents the annual...
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  • The V Show with Bob Valvano is a sports talk radio show hosted by Bob Valvano and broadcast on ESPN Radio. Normally, the show is heard Saturdays and Sundays...
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    One of the indelible images in tournament history is of winning coach Jim Valvano running onto the court after the game ended looking for Whittenburg....
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  • Dakota Chief Standing Bear, Centennial Mall, Lincoln, Nebraska Coach Jim Valvano, North Carolina State Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina Christa...
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    Carolina State, for whom he served three separate stints under head coaches Jim Valvano, Les Robinson, and Mark Gottfried. He also served as head coach at Wagner...
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  • Albuquerque. A total of 51 games were played. North Carolina State, coached by Jim Valvano, won the national title with a 54–52 victory in the final game over Houston...
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  • a foundation for cancer research created by late sports broadcaster Jim Valvano. List of people with brain tumors "WWE honors Connor Michalek". WWE....
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    high school in New York at Tolentine High School. He was recruited by Jim Valvano as a sophomore in high school, while he was playing against Rice High...
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  • named in honor of North Carolina State University men's basketball coach Jim Valvano, who gave an acceptance speech after receiving the Arthur Ashe Courage...
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    basketball team wore a unitard designed by Nike shortly in 1989 under coach Jim Valvano "to address the issue of jerseys coming untucked", but they were retired...
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    Bill Bufalino in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Romano is set to play Jim Valvano in an upcoming movie about the former NC State Wolfpack basketball coach...
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  • played basketball for North Carolina State University, and under coach Jim Valvano, he was a member of the 1983 Wolfpack "Cardiac Pack" national championship-winning...
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    "Jim Valvano, Colorful College Basketball Coach, Is Dead at 47", The New York Times, April 29, 1993. Accessed December 9, 2017. "James Thomas Valvano,...
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  • coach and teacher who was featured in 2007 film, The Great Debaters Jim Valvano, basketball coach portrayed in the 1996 television movie Never Give Up:...
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  • for failing to meet a deadline for a book covering the life of coach Jim Valvano. Wojnarowski responded that the problem was "a miscommunication between...
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  • season 2) Mario Van Peebles as Garvin ("Clair's Sister", season 2) Jim Valvano as John Velarde ("The Getaway", season 8) Dick Vitale as Dan Vicente...
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    March 16, 2008. Retrieved March 18, 2018. "Ultimate Tournament Moments: Jim Valvano and N.C. State's upset of Houston in 1983". Sporting News. March 25,...
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  • to raise money and awareness for cancer research. It is named after Jim Valvano and features clips from his speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards. The Men's...
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    member for the Raleigh region of Union Bank. Edmisten, Jim Valvano, and Don Shea founded the Jim Valvano Kids Klassic Golf Tournament, which has raised several...
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    Maravich 2 38–13 .745 14 1966–1980 Norm Sloan 14 266–127 .677 15 1980–1990 Jim Valvano 10 209–114 .647 16 1990–1996 Les Robinson 6 78–98 .443 17 1996–2006 Herb...
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  • (d. 2021) 1946 – Gérard Garouste, French contemporary artist 1946 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993) 1947 – Kim Campbell,...
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    first emerged in the 1980s under the vision of then-Wolfpack coach Jim Valvano. In 1989, the NCSU Trustees approved plans to build a 23,000-seat arena...
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    State coach Jim Valvano was said to have his players practice cutting down the nets in order to mentally condition them to be winners. Valvano's Wolfpack...
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