star-telegram.com - 4/7/2008
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College basketball broadcasters Dick Vitale and Billy Packer were inducted along with former players Danny Manning of Kansas, Charles Barkley of Auburn, Arnie Ferrin of Utah plus coaches Nolan Richardson and Jim Phelan.
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Vitale, Packer, Barkley get call
SPORTS COUCH POTATO —
... College basketball TV analysts Dick Vitale and Billy Packer and NBA star-turned-TNT analyst Charles Barkley were among seven selected for induction into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. ...
College Basketball HOF Inductees Kinda Suck
Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos —
... Dick Vitale will be inducted into the National Colligiate Basketball Hall of Fame on November 23 and Hell must have just started to freeze over. Its certainly not for his coaching as Dickie V was a college basketball coach for just 5 years from 1972-1977 at the University of Detroit before jumping to the Detroit Pistons in '78 and getting fired the next season. Granted during his 5 years at Detroit he sported a 78-30 record but he only made the NCAA tournament (then just 32 teams) once but that isn't enough to get him into the hall of fame. No, his "inspirational" televised ...
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