Rick Majerus, the jovial college basketball coach who led Utah to the 1998 NCAA finals and most recently coach at Saint Louis University died Saturday. He was 64. Saint Louis athletic director Chris May released a statement
Rick Majerus, the basketball coach who took the University of Utah to the 1998 national championship game, died Saturday in Los Angeles at age 64 while awaiting a heart transplant, according to his longtime friend,
Rick Majerus' solitary season on an NBA bench in 1986-87 was spent as a Milwaukee Bucks assistant to head coach Don Nelson and sidekick to then-Bucks assistant Del Harris. Nelson and Harris quickly became two of Majerus' closest friends in the game.
1. It's a testament to the man Rick Majerus was that his death inspired so many incredible pieces of writing over the weekend. I'll link three of my favorites here: ESPN.com's Gene Wojciechowski on the complexities and generosity of Majerus, CBS
Rick Majerus, the rotund, ailing, gym-addicted college basketball coach whose fun-loving personality was infectious, died Saturday of heart failure in Los.
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