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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Ex-Auburn coach Tuberville wins U.S. Senate seat
Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville is taking his playbook to Washington, D.C. The 65-year-old Republican challenger and political newcomer won his U.S. Senate race Tuesday in Alabama against Democratic incumbent Doug Jones. Tuberville, who has been out of coaching since 2016, has said he was inspired to enter politics by Donald Trump’s 2016 election. He guided Auburn to an 85-40 record from 1999-2008, including an undefeated season (13-0) in 2004 when the Tigers were denied a berth in the BCS National Championship Game after finishing third in the BCS…
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