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TOBY MELVILLE/ REUTERS -  Il premier Il leader di Fine Gael,  Simon  Harris,  ricopre la carica di “taoiseach” cioè di capo del governo irlandese. ANTONELLO GUERRERA La Repubblica - domenica 1/12/2024 Edizione NAZIONALE Pagina 17 LONDRA — « Tiocfaidh ár lá », il nostro giorno arriverà. Ossia la riunificazione dell’Irlanda, prometteva Bobby Sands prima di lasciarsi morire di fame nel 1981. Stessa massima del guru Gerry Adams e dei leader di Sinn Féin succedutigli, fino all’attuale pasionaria Mary Lou McDonald. Invece, dopo le elezioni dell’altroieri nella Repubblica di Irlanda, l’ex braccio politico dei terroristi dell’Ira ha perso un’occasione unica.  Lo spoglio è ancora in corso per il complicato sistema elettorale irlandese. Ma gli exit poll hanno assegnato circa il 20% ai tre partiti principali, con Sinn Féin in vantaggio (21,1%) rispetto a Fine Gael (21%) del 38enne taoiseach (primo ministro) “star di TikTok” Simon Harris, e a Fianna Fáil del ministro degli...

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2024 by RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Longtime St. John’s Coach Known for his colorful courtside image, Lou Carnesecca guided the school to basketball glory. He was 99.  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 section of Queens from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn 10 years earlier, and its Alumni Hall athletic building was only four years old.  With the founding of the Big East Conference in 1979, St. John’s began competing regularly againstleading basketball programs....

2 Dec 2024 - New York Post By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD Even as rivals, Jim Calhoun had a special place in his heart for legendary St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca. That was made clear when the UConn coaching great explained that Carnesecca was just one of two coaches that he’d ever gone out with after his team lost. “He asked me to come someplace after a game with some boosters and stuff, and I’d do that for Looie. I don’t think I’d do that for my brother,” Calhoun joked to The Post. “The way he had about him was special.” Carnesecca died at the age of 99 on Saturday afternoon, leaving a hole in the St. John’s community and the New York basketball scene. But for those who coached against him in the Big East, the loss seemed to sting even more. Calhoun and Syracuse coaching great Jim Boeheim came to know Carnesecca well between their time battling on the court and spending time together off it. The three names have become synonymous with Big East basketball, and Boeheim called it an “honor” to h...

https://www.si.com/college/2024/02/25/st-johns-coach-rick-pitino-viral-all-white-suit-creighton The St. John’s Red Storm men’s basketball coach certainly made a statement with his memorable look. Tom Dierberger | Feb 25, 2024 St. John’s Coach Rick Pitino Perfectly Described Story Behind Viral All-White Suit / In this story:  St. John's Red Storm Rick Pitino made waves Sunday afternoon by debuting a new all-white suit to participate in the St. John’s fan “whiteout” for the Red Storm’s matchup against Big East foe Creighton . It certainly caught the eye of all 12,061 fans at Madison Square Garden—and plenty more on social media. After the game, Pitino told the story behind his new look. The 71-year-old Hall of Fame coach walked from his apartment to a nearby Armani store on Saturday to buy a new white suit and join the Red Storm fans in the planned whiteout. His wife, Joanne, had urged him to purchase a new white suit. “I couldn’t fit in the old white suit,” Pitino said with a smil...

Carnesecca’s greatness on court matched only by his heart off it 2 Dec 2024 - New York Post Mike Vaccaro mvaccaro@nypost.com THE phone buzzed in the waiting room of a doctor’s office, where buzzing phones are treated more harshly than germs, but there wasn’t a choice here. On the face of the phone was a name — “Lou Carnesecca” — and these were calls that always had to be answered. “Coach!” I said. “I saw where you wrote about that white suit that Rick Pitino wore yesterday at the Garden,” he said, in that most familiar, raspy voice, and even over the phone you could detect the twinkle in his eye. “And that his wife told him to wear it. And I saw where you mentioned that it was my wife, Mary, who told me to wear that awful old sweater that made me famous.” “She told me that story once,” I said. “She said you had a cold, and she wanted to keep you from getting pneumonia.” The old man laughed a hearty laugh. “She always was looking out for me,” he said. “Although I wish now that she wou...

CARNESECCA RECALLED MORE FOR THE MAN HE WAS THAN ALL HIS SUCCESSES By CHRISTIAN ARNOLD carnold1 @nypost.com 2 Dec 2024 - New York Post In case it wasn’t clear how important Lou Carnesecca was to St. John’s basketball and the New York basketball scene as a whole, all you had to do was look at the tribute that adorned the marquee at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. However, for longtime St. John’s assistant coach Brian Mahoney, who succeeded Carnesecca as the head coach, the lasting memory he’ll carry of Carnesecca, who died at the age of 99 on Saturday, will be his impact on the people around him. In a conversation with The Post, Mahoney recalled the times that Carnesecca would be approached on the street and make time to talk with anyone willing. “We always said, ‘You could run for mayor,’ ” Mahoney said. But what really left a lasting impact on the former St. John’s coach was the extra mile that Carnesecca would go for players, even the ones who never wore a St. John’s uniform. ...

Steve Chubin cattura un rimbalzo https://www.museodelbasket-milano.it/leggi.php?idcontenuti=523 Il rag. Tricerri per l’edizione del trofeo Lombardia 1966 aveva deciso di non cambiare formato, anzi avrebbe voluto svolgere il torneo ancora più a ridosso dell’inizio del campionato (che sarebbe iniziato il 23 ottobre), ma ciò non fu possibile: il Simmenthal era già impegnato il 14 e 15 ottobre a Lubiana in una manifestazione a cui partecipavano lo Zadar, l’Olimpia Lubiana, e la Rappresentativa Resto d’Europa e pertanto fu giocoforza disputare il "Lombardia" dal 3 al 7 ottobre. L’estate 1966 dopo il gran trambusto per il caso “Gennari”, con assegnazione d’ufficio dello scudetto al Simmenthal , era trascorsa con alcune importanti novità, in particolare riguardanti gli ingaggi di tecnici stranieri: Cantù con Stankovic, la All’Onestà con lo statunitense Percudani e la Candy Bologna con il cecoslovacco Sip . Nel frattempo a Roma la FIP aveva organizzato un clinic tenuto da un celebre...

https://eu.app.com/story/sports/college/2024/12/01/lou-carnesecca-st-johns-and-big-east-basketball-legend-dies-at-99/76688212007/ Jerry Carino - Asbury Park Press After his passing Saturday at age 99, former St. John’s basketball coach Lou Carnesecca was hailed as a prodigious winner, a first-rate character, and a founding godfather of the Big East Conference. P.J. Carlesimo would add something else. “He was a mentor to me and hundreds and hundreds, if not more, high school and college coaches,” the former Seton Hall coach said by phone Sunday. “The knowledge he would impart, most of the time it wasn’t X’s and O’s. It was how you should conduct yourself, how your team should behave, what’s the classy way to go about things.” Carlesimo drew on that wisdom after being dealt one of the toughest breaks in college hoops history – the phantom foul against Michigan that cost his Pirates the 1989 NCAA Tournament title. So placid and gracious was Carlesimo’s handling of the call that the offen...

a a Legendary St. John's coach Carnesecca dies at 99, leaving long, storied legacy at Queens school 1 Dec 2024 - New York Post By DON BURKE dburke@nypost.com Lou Carnesecca, the only child of Italian immigrants who ran a grocery store on Manhattan’s East Side and who became one of the most colorful and successful coaches in college basketball history during a 24-year career at St. John’s, died on Saturday afternoon, the Post confirmed. He was 99. Carnesecca, who would have turned 100 on Jan. 5, retired from coaching in 1992 , but kept an office on the Queens campus for more than 30 years in his role as an assistant to the university president and remained a presence at many of the team’s home games until 2022. “The St. John’s community mourns the loss of Hall of Fame coach and St. John’s legend, Lou Carnesecca,” St. John’s said in a statement. “Coach Carnesecca passed away peacefully at the age of 99.” A 1950 graduate of St. John’s, Carnesecca also coached the ABA Nets for three se...

2 Dec 2024 - L'Équipe H. P. Lille a encore perdu deux points en toute fin de match à Montpellier. Le LOSC va devoir mieux gérer ces moments clés pour espérer grimper au classement. "Depuis août, on ne survole pas un match,  ça puise mentalement de devoir défendre sa cage"    - LUCAS CHEVALIER, GARDIEN DE LILLE MONTPELLIER – Comme un disque rayé. Le LOSC a laissé échapper deux points dans une fin de match étouffante, tendue, émaillée d’incidents ( voir page6), comme à Nice (2-2, le 10novembre) et à Lyon (1-1, le 1er novembre). Sans réussir le match du siècle, les Lillois avaient au moins assumé leur nouveau statut de forte tête européenne. Avec deux buts sur penalties inscrits par Jonathan David, les Nordistes pensaient avoir réussi l’essentiel, mais les seize minutes de temps additionnel les ont plongés dans leurs travers après une égalisation d’Arnaud Nordin sur une relance ratée de Bafodé Diakité (90e +3).Arnaud Nordin, ici devant Bafodé Diakité, a égalisé dans le temps...

Montpellier s’est battu pour arracher un point dans une ambiance tendue face à Lille.  Le club de la Paillade veut croire que ce nul à la Mosson peut le relancer dans la course au maintien. "La Mosson peut redevenir la Mosson,  le public était derrière nous et les petits se sont lâchés"    - JEAN-LOUIS GASSET, ENTRAÎNEUR DE MONTPELLIER 2 Dec 2024 - L'Équipe HERVÉ PENOT MONTPELLIER – Jean-Louis Gasset s’est pointé en salle de presse longtemps après le nul décroché contre Lille (2-2). L’entraîneur de Montpellier, l’enfant de la maison, revenu pour tenter de sauver le club de la descente, a pris son temps. Il est passé par la case Benoît Millot, l’arbitre qui l’a expulsé (86e), pour une réaction trop vive sur l’une de ses décisions. « Je suis allé le voir pour m’excuser et lui expliquer pourquoi j’étais entré en folie. Il n’y avait pas faute et quand vous êtes mené 2-1, que vous préparez un changement, que vous allez jouer votre vatout, le moindre truc vous fait sortir ...