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https://www.neverendingseason.com/lou-carnesecca-coach-storia/ Storie Francesco Mecucci 1 Dicembre 2024 New York, le origini italiane, la NCAA: cosa c’è stato di più americano di Lou Carnesecca? I natali nella Grande Mela, le radici a Pontremoli, alta Toscana, e quel college basketball così centrale nella società e nella cultura sportiva d’oltreoceano. Dove i giocatori passano e sono gli allenatori a restare, anche per decenni, sulla stessa panchina. Diventano personaggi, esempi, leggende. E Carnesecca, scomparso il 30 novembre 2024 a 99 anni (a poco più di un mese dal suo centesimo compleanno), memoria di ferro e lucidità invidiabili fino all’ultimo giorno, è stato tutto questo. Simbolo indiscusso di St. John’s, l’università cattolica del Queens, quest’uomo d’altri tempi ha guidato la squadra di basket maschile per ventiquattro stagioni. Lasciando un segno tale da vedersi intitolata l’ex Alumni Hall, dal 2004 appunto Carnesecca Arena, il palazzo da 5600 posti nel campus del quartiere ...

By George Vecsey   The New York Times - Jan. 21, 2001 See the article in its original context from January 21, 2001, Section 8, Page 4 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine HE took exactly one shot in Madison Square Garden, although it was actually more of a chuck . A heave. A brick. An air ball, decades before the term was invented. Despite his lifetime 0-for-1 excursion into long-range gunnery, his number will be hung from the rafters. And what a number it is, three full digits' worth -- 526, the number of games won by St. John's University during the regime of Lou Carnesecca. The St. John's jersey will be unveiled during the Connecticut game on Jan. 30, and Looie, now 76, will no doubt recall the old barn farther up on Eighth Avenue, where he made his one mad fling for glory. ''I did play one game in the old Garden,'' he said recently. ''I was a terrible player. But I always wanted to be a coach. I was coaching little kids in the neighborhood, so they...

Former St. Johns Red Storm head basketball coach Lou Carnesecca attends the press conference naming Rick Pitino as the team's new head coach, at Madison Square Garden in New York,  on March 21, 2023. Porter Binks/Getty Images https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/01/sport/lou-carnesecca-obit/index.html By Associated Press Sun December 1, 2024 New York (AP) – Lou Carnesecca, the excitable St. John’s coach whose outlandish sweaters became an emblem of his team’s dazzling Final Four run in 1985, has died at 99, just a few weeks shy of what would have been his 100th birthday. The university said it was notified by a family member that Carnesecca died in a hospital on Saturday surrounded by his family. St. John’s said Carnesecca “endeared himself to generations of New Yorkers with his wit and warmth.” Carnesecca was a treasured figure in New York sports in his day, affection for “Looie” never wavering in a city with little patience for its players, coaches, executives and owners. He coached S...

Lou Carnesecca was raised by jubilant St. John’s players after they beat  Boston  College 85-77  in the Big East Championship at Madison Square Garden in 1983. Credit...G. Paul Burnett/Associated Press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/sports/basketball/lou-carnesecca-dead.html Known for his quick wit and garish sweaters, he took the New York City university to national basketball prominence over 24 seasons. By Richard Goldstein Published Nov. 30, 2024Updated Dec. 1, 2024, 1:12 a.m. ET Lou Carnesecca, the Hall of Fame coach who took St. John’s University to national basketball prominence and who was known for his quick wit and colorful courtside persona, died on Saturday. He was 99. His death was confirmed by Brian Browne, a spokesman for the university , who provided no other details. When Carnesecca took over as the St. John’s head coach in 1965 , the university, while rich in basketball tradition, played as an independent . It had begun a gradual move to the Jamaica s...

La Ferrari de Carlos Sainz et la McLaren de  Lando Norris lors des essais du GP du Qatar vendredi. Max Verstappen sacré chez les pilotes la semaine dernière et deuxième sur le grille de départ aujourd’hui, il reste à savoir qui coiffera la couronne des constructeurs.  Tout se jouera entre Ferrari et McLaren, ces écuries légendaires. "On fera tout pour être champions"    - OSCAR PIASTRI (McLAREN) 1 Dec 2024 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL FRÉDÉRIC FERRET LOSAIL - Le duel est historique. Il résonne dans les mémoires des plus anciens comme un rappel que les grands ne meurent jamais. Assister à cette bagarre entre Ferrari et McLaren réveille forcément des souvenirs grandioses, des luttes dantesques comme lorsque Niki Lauda bataillait contre James Hunt (1976), Michael Schumacher ferraillait contre Mika Häkkinen (1998 et 1999) ou Lewis Hamilton s’escrimait contre Kimi Räikkönen ou Felipe Massa (2007 et 2008). Dans quelques années, on écrira avec délice sur cette saison ...

(Top photo of Lou Carnesecca and his players at the 1983 Big East Tournament: Andy Hayt / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5959323/2024/12/01/lou-carnesecca-death-st-johns/ By Dana O'Neil Lou Carnesecca, the charismatic basketball coach who brought St. John’s to national prominence and became one of the faces of the Big East’s golden era, died Saturday at age 99. St. John’s confirmed the Hall of Fame coach’s death Saturday night . The school did not provide details on the cause of his death. Carnesecca won 526 games and lost just 200 in his 24 years at St. John’s, leading the team to 18 NCAA Tournaments and the 1985 Final Four . He looked like everybody’s favorite uncle, a pocket-sized man in a world full of giants, shuffling about in his ugly sweaters . Lovable “Looie,” the king of one-liners and the maestro of the run-on sentence, charmed them all, and as it turns out, snookered them all. “ Looie ? Please, he’d start the game with a, ‘Bless yo...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1969/01/27/a-new-mr-bones-has-a-winner ARCHIVES CLASSIC GALLERIES JUMPIER THAN A MINSTREL END MAN, ST. JOHN'S COACH LOU CARNESECCA IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF HIS TEAM, WHICH PLAYS A COOL AND COLLECTED GAME CURRY KIRKPATRICK TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT Lou Carnesecca has a face that was-not so much molded as anvilled. Everything there is sharp and craggy, much like the Apennine cliffs of Tuscany, from which his people came. Sober and often frowning, the face was marked in youth by too much dirt in street games, too much spaghetti sauce at dinner, but it can light up— paesano! —very easily, too. Well weathered at 44, Carnesecca is a product of New York City sidewalks, and he has seen both sides of the coin. Way back he sliced the cold cuts and cheese in papa's East Side delicatessen before sneaking out to play stoopball under the 59th Street bridge, basketball up the block, and steal the flag, jump the hydrant and dodge the car anywhere he could. T...