Article: Another John Thompson already is stirring enthusiasm as coach of Georgetown U's basketball team in Washington.(National Headliners)(Brief Article)

Article: Benjamin L. Hooks congratulates John Thompson, ...
PR Newswire;  April 3, 1984 ;     700+ words ... ... Benjamin L. Hooks congratulated John Thompson, coach of Georgetown University's basketball team, for his leadership in guiding ... that equal opportunity pays off. John Thompson and his hard-working team are ...

Article: This week in Black history.(Carolyn Peck became the first Black ...
Jet;  April 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... shots. Peck is currently in her third year as head coach of the University of Florida women's basketball team. April 2, 1984-- John Thompson became the first Black coach to win an NCAA Division I championship on this day. Georgetown University ...

Article: WAKING UP TO REALITY U.S. BASKETBALL TEAM SEEKS TO ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 27, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... for David Robinson. No Dream Team margin of victory is too great for the starting center on John Thompson's ill-fated 1988 men's basketball team, the one that made the Dreamers necessary. So when this year's version of Team Overkill ...

Article: John Thompson's Temptation
The Washington Post;  June 22, 1990 ;     478 words ... ... among the best. The John Thompson our city knows is that ... championship. The first John Thompson has received a lucrative ... Denver's professional basketball team. The second-the ... hope he doesn't. John Thompson is of the sort of people ...

Article: JOHN THOMPSON'S OLYMIC TRIAL
The Washington Post;  August 28, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... it work for America's basketball team in the Summer Games? THREE ... OLYMPIC BASKETBALL COACH JOHN THOMPSON: -1- In the summer of ... junior years, a skinny John Thompson, recruited to play basketball ... legitimate All-Met." -2- John Thompson stands in a doorway at ...

Article: John Thompson III Foundation Holding Toy Drive for ...
Official College Sports Network;  December 10, 2008 ;     403 words ... ... Format WASHINGTON, D.C. - The John Thompson III Foundation will be hosting ... Georgetown University men's basketball team hosts Memphis at Verizon Center ... donate an unwrapped toy for the John Thompson III Foundation's Second Annual ...

Article: Hoyas present history lesson; Georgetown is back in the Sweet 16, ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... stuff about the Georgetown basketball team out of the way. Yes, a ... convinced that I would find John Thompson under a basket support ... Absolutely. So powerfully did John Thompson's presence - figuratively ... 1997-98 season, when John Thompson was still coaching. He ...