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Fox Sports
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Bob Hammel, legendary Indiana sports writer and friend of Bob Knight, dies at 88
Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Bob Hammel, who covered 23 NCAA Final Fours and 29 Indiana high school basketball tournament championships during a 52-year sports writing career that included a close friendship with late Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight, has died. He was 88. Hammel died Sunday at Bell Trace, a senior living community in Bloomington, according to an obituary in The Herald-Times, his longtime employer. No cause of death was given. The lifelong Indiana resident spent 40 years with the Bloomington Herald-Telephone and later Herald-Times, including 30 as sports editor. Hammel was a member of several halls of fame, including the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, Football Writers Association of America, Indiana Journalism and Indiana University Athletics. He served terms as president of the Basketball and Football Writers associations. He received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Bert McGrane Award from the Football Writers Association. Hammel won the Indiana Sportswriter of the Year award 21 times. He authored or co-authored 14 books, including the 2002 autobiography of Knight, the fiery IU basketball coach who died in 2023. They also teamed in 2012 for a book titled 'The Power of Negative Thinking.' Upon retiring as Big Ten Conference commissioner in 2020, Jim Delany said, "Bob Hammel is simply the most important Big Ten writer in the last 50 years.' Hammel, a native of Huntington, Indiana, attended Indiana University for a year. He took a summer job as sports editor of his hometown paper and instead of returning to school that fall, he stayed on at the paper for eight years. He worked at papers in Peru, Fort Wayne, Kokomo and Indianapolis before being hired as sports editor of the Herald-Telephone in 1966. His career included covering five Olympics before he retired from sports writing in 1996. He is survived by Julie, his wife of 67 years, son Richard Hammel and daughter Jane Priest. ___ AP college basketball: and recommended Item 1 of 1 in this topic
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
South Carolina falls to UConn in National Championship game, 82-59
TAMPA, Fla. (USC SID) – No. 2/2 South Carolina dropped an 82-59 decision to No. 3/3 UConn in the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship game at Amalie Arena. The Gamecocks finished the season with a 35-4 record and National Runner-Up honors for the first time in their four National Championship game appearances. The game got off to a fast start with a Te-Hina Paopao 3-pointer at the top of the arc, and the teams combined for just six missed shots in the opening five minutes of the contest. UConn scored the last five points of the opening quarter to take an early 19-14 lead behind 52.9 percent shooting. South Carolina fought back with an 8-2 run early in the second to pull within three, but the Huskies continued to inch away and took a 10-point lead into halftime. UConn continued to out-shoot the Gamecocks in the third quarter, also holding an edge on the glass to stretch out their lead and close out the victory. GAMECOCK NOTABLES South Carolina's 2021 signing class, ranked No. 1 in the nation and led by Sania Feagin and Bree Hall in their final year on eligibility, played in four NCAA Final Fours, including three national championship games, and posted a 144-7 record. Both the total wins and the .954 winning percentage are the best four-year marks in program history. The Gamecocks' three championship game appearances in the last four years are the most in the modern era of college athletics. The program's four championship game showings in the last 10 tournaments are more than any other program in that time. Freshman Joyce Edwards picked up NCAA Final Four All-Tournament honors after averaging 11.5 points, 8.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists over the weekend. Sophomores Tessa Johnson and MiLaysia Fulwiley were also bright spots in the final game, finishing with 10 and nine points, respectively. Fulwiley went 4-of-7 from the field and handed out four assists as well. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
