- My old high school basketball coach Ron Dawn had a heart attack and has had 3 surgeries in the last few weeks. Just heard about it. Great guy. His son Ronnie torched UK while playing for Marshall a while back.
Ronnie is married to my niece.
His dad is a good dude. He is in incredible shape and that is the only reason he is alive right now. Genetic heart problems, man.
During a summer league back in the late 80's he was coaching either St. Henry or Holy Cross when we were playing them.
Some of you will not be surprised to know that I was wearing some awful shorts. Jams, if you remember that fashion abomination. (we were just wearing our practice jerseys)
Anyhoo, a new player checked in and left me unguarded. After 2 consecutive layups Coach Dawn screamed at the kid, "You're guarding the kid in the shorts. How could you lose those?"
For the rest of that summer I was known as "The kid in the shorts."
But I'm over that now, and I hope Ron has a quick and complete recovery.