Rick Majerus, College Basketball Coach, Dies at 64

The Rick Majerus I knew was all heart. His life, all 64 years of it, was a breadcrumb trail of random acts of kindness. I'm not sure I can recall a conversation with him that didn't begin or end with, "How can I help?" OK, maybe there was one: about a

First, this, from Loyola University of Chicago's head basketball coach and onetime Rick Majerus assistant Porter Moser:

The Rick Majerus I knew was all heart. His life, all 64 years of it, was a breadcrumb trail of random acts of kindness. I'm not sure I can recall a conversation with him that didn't begin or end with, "How can I help?" OK, maybe there was one: about a

It was signed by Al McGuire and Rick Majerus. It was clearly a joke cooked up by Majerus, who was an assistant coach at Marquette at the time, and had been a family friend of my father's since they were young. But it was only one of the thousands of

Former Utah and Saint Louis basketball coach Rick Majerus passed away on Saturday night. He was 64 years old.