Smith has one of the most successful coaching trees in the world of basketball -- his roster of ex-players and assistants includes current UNC coach Roy Williams and Larry Brown of the Charlotte Bobcats. Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun scowls on the sideline during the 2008 Big East Tournament.
Not Emily Dickinson. Her poems are full of weird, sharp, crazy images. They are bursting at the seams with emotion, all about death, madness, passion, and the weird things that go on in our minds. They are smart and often funny in a dark, slightly twisted way. Take I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died, for example. A lot of writers in Dickinsonâs time had a very sentimental take on death and dying. Everything had to be sweet and calm and sappy.
(Originally published by the Daily News on May 17, 1990. This story was written by Hank Gallo.) A unique piece of American history slipped away early yesterday morning when 64-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. finally succumbed to throat cancer in his Beverly Hills home. The song-and-dance legend, who began his battle with cancer last September, died in his sleep at 5:59 a.m.