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Fortunately, Calhoun wears a helmet.
It is very possible that nothing has effected college basketball more recently than potholes.
On Thursday evening, former Kansas athletic director Bob Frederick, 69, who was responsible for hiring Roy Williams as K.U. head coach and helped form the Big 12 Conference, hit a pothole while biking in Lawrence, Kansas. Frederick was taken by helicopter to a local hospital where he died from massive head trauma.
Then, on Saturday while riding in his annual Jim Calhoun Cancer Challenge Ride, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun, 67, hit a pothole 12 miles in and flipped over his handle bars. Amazingly, he finished the 50-mile race before collapsing. Calhoun was taken to a local hospital and diagnosed with five (Calhoun says six) broken ribs.
Have pot holes ever effected one sport so much in so short a time - especially a sport like basketball, which is not played in the streets, but on a manicured wooden court?
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