![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesse Washington, co-author of “I Came as a Shadow” and senior writer for ESPN’s “The Undefeated,” joins us to discuss Thompson’s life and enduring legacy in Washington. “Opportunity is what I fight for,” he told Kojo in 2012. He saw basketball as a means rather than an end. Thompson’s life on and off the court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into stark relief, from his childhood in a segregated Washington to our current moment of racial reckoning.Ĭreating opportunity for Black athletes was a cornerstone of Thompson’s legacy. Thompson was never just a basketball coach, and “I Came as a Shadow” is decidedly not just a basketball autobiography. The larger-than-life force behind Georgetown’s rise to national prominence, Thompson passed away in the summer of 2020, but not before penning his autobiography. After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship is ready to make the private public. ![]() made history as the first African American coach to lead his team to an NCAA title in 1984. In his new autobiography, I Came As A Shadow, John Thompson, along with writer Jesse Washington of ESPN's The Undefeated, gives us a 352-page opus on a man with few regrets and lamenting. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography. Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson, Jr. I used basketball as an instrument to teach. review, autobiography, Durham County A librarian's review of Coach John Thompson's Autobiography, 'I Came as a Shadow.' All programs and events for. “I always planned to be a teacher, not a basketball coach. ![]()
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