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New U of M basketball coach Ben Johnson returns to his roots

In the mid 1990s, Ben Johnson was an eighth-grader seeking admission to DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. Even then, the school’s admissions director, Mike O’Keefe, himself an alumnus (1978), saw potential that resulted in, more than two decades later, Johnson being named the men’s head basketball coach at the University of Minnesota March 22. 

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Bryant relied on Catholic faith to see him through tough personal times

As the world mourned the loss of basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others killed in a tragic helicopter crash Jan. 26, many recalled how Bryant gave much credit to his Catholic faith for seeing him through the bad times and strengthening his marriage and family.

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