Olympic and college basketball coach John Thompson, Jr. became the first African American to guide an NCAA championship basketball team in 1984. Thompson led the Georgetown University Hoyas team from 1972-1999. Thompson turned around...

John Thompson Jr. (born September 2 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is a former basketball coach for the Georgetown University Hoyas. He is now a professional radio and TV sports commentator. In 1984, he became the first African-American head coach to win the...

John Thompson, the noted basketball coach of the Georgetown Hoyas, has filed for divorce from his wife of 32 years, Gwen Thompson, the Washington Post reported. Thompson, who in 1984 be came the first Black coach to win an NCAA Division I...

Former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson recently voiced his opinion that women have the ability to coach men. "Women are better at holding people to standards," he told the New York Post. "Men have compromised the values and standards that think...

Twenty-five years later, Georgetown got even for a coach named Thompson and a player named Ewing. In an NCAA tournament full of tremendous rallies, it was the Hoyas' turn _ against North Carolina, of all teams.Georgetown overcame an 11-point deficit in the second half, then...

The old man wrapped him up in a bear hug and cradled his son's head in his hands, his long fingers trembling ever so slightly.John Thompson waited a lifetime for this day. But almost as quick as the hug was strong, he let go of...