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Article: John Chaney retires after 24 years as Temple University's head basketball coach.(SPORTS)(Brief article)(Biography)

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April 3, 2006
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Hall of Fame basketball coach John Chaney recently announced he is retiring after 24 seasons at Temple, ending a 34-year coaching career where he taught as much about life as he did basketball.

"It's always a very traumatic time, but it is time," Chaney said at the press conference in Philadelphia. "Temple gave me a chance to make my own decision and that's the great thing about it. Right now I'm faced with another problem with my wife, so it's the right time to go."

The 74-year-old Chaney, who did not coach the Owls' opening NIT game so that he could be by his wife's side as she under-went a procedure for an undisclosed health problem, guided Temple to ...

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