Basketball: Goorjian to coach Australia’s Boomers at Tokyo Olympics American Brian Goorjian will lead Australia’s Boomers at the Olympics for the third time in Tokyo next year after being appointed national head coach until 2023 on Friday. Another American, Brett Brown, quit the job last October in the wake of the postponement of the Games for a year and his sacking by the Philadelphia 76ers. Goorjian, the most successful coach in the history of Australia’s National Basketball League, also led the Boomers at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where they finished…
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27-year Nigerian basketball player dies in Serbia
Former Florida State University center Michael Ojo died on Friday after collapsing during training in Serbia, his former team Red Star Belgrade said. He was 27. The Nigerian-born basketball player was taken to a hospital in the Serbian capital, but doctors failed to resuscitate him, Belgrade media reported. “The sudden and shocking death has deeply shaken everyone in the club,” Red Star said in a statement. Ojo was reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus, but also that he had recovered. Local media reported that he died of a…
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