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It's been a tough three days for University of Washington basketball, with the passing of, in order, former players Dion Brown, John Tuft and now Dick Crews. One was an electrifying dunker ...
the first African American basketball player at Duke. A select group — including Emmy-nominated producer and editor Funmi Ogunro and Martin Paul Smith, executive producer and an assistant ...
SEATTLE — Richard "Dick" Crews, the first African American player to play basketball at the University of Washington (UW), died Monday at the age of 89. Crews, a three-time letter winner ...
Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to “Sweetwater,” a recently completed feature about Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, the first African American to land an NBA ...
the first African American basketball player to graduate from the University of Arizona, among others. For students, the museum has activities geared toward youth grades K-12 allowing them to ...
One was an electrifying dunker, another made an exasperated program exit (see story links below) and now the UW's landmark first African American basketball player is gone. On Monday, former Husky ...