By Sean Deveney: Sporting News It was 2005, not long after he had been given a new role in the basketball world as executive director of USA Basketball, when Jerry Colangelo convened one of the most high-powered hoops meetings in history. He was tasked with reconstructing Team USA in the wake of the 2004 Athens Olympics debacle,
Dan Feldman Jul 30, 2015, 2:33 PM EDT USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo believes LeBron James wants to be part of Team USA. Does that mean LeBron – who turns 31 before the 2016 Olympics and has significant mileage – is a lock for Rio? Read More at NBCSports.com
July 27, 2015 10:30 am • KEVIN SCHINDLER Special to the Daily Sun COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Randy Johnson is being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today because of his talents for throwing a ball, not swinging at one. Yet on the day before he’ll take the stage to give his acceptance speech in front
By Timothy Jay Ibay Jul 21, 2015 09:53 AM EDT Wikimedia Commons/FileUSA Basketball will be holding a minicamp next month. USA Basketball recently handed out a list of invites to new players for an upcoming minicamp in Las Vegas, ESPN’s Marc Stein reports. According to the report, seven new players will be added to the 34 current
Grand Canyon University’s Colangelo College of Business is launching a hospitality management program this fall to train workers in the rapidly growing tourism industry. The program will combine classroom instruction with hands-on training at the newly renovated Grand Canyon University Hotel at 27th Avenue and Camelback Road, which is a few blocks away from GCU’s
NEW YORK (AP) Jerry Colangelo has some gifts to deliver during All-Star weekend, planning to present championship rings to members of last summer’s U.S. team that won the gold medal at the Basketball World Cup. With the senior level in good shape, Colangelo has time to turn his attention toward young players. Read More Here
By Rick Vacek GCU Today Magazine Servant leadership. Ethics. Entrepreneurship. Dr. Randy Gibb recites those principles slowly, carefully, with passion and intensity. They are his ideals. They are Jerry Colangelo’s. And their goal is to instill them in the Colangelo College of Business at Grand Canyon University. Read More Here
By: Ronald J. Hansen, The Republic Grand Canyon University said today it was renaming its business college after Jerry Colangelo, the Valley’s sports and real estate magnate who already was working with the for-profit Christian school. The Colangelo College of Business, as it will be known, is intended to provide “real-world relevance” to future generations
azcentral.com By Dan Bickley Jerry Colangelo never won a NBA championship. But he never compromised his feelings toward domestic violence. It’s a lesson that some NFL franchises better learn fast. Colangelo not only shipped off a mediocre relief pitcher (Bobby Chouinard) for domestic violence, he traded away the face of his basketball franchise (Jason Kidd)
Sporting News By Sean Deveney It was just a little more than six weeks ago that disaster appeared to be all around for USA Basketball. The team was preparing for this summer’s World Cup in Spain, and already, two of the top big men slated to participate — Kevin Love and Blake Griffin — pulled out.