{"id":65182,"date":"2015-02-11T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65182"},"modified":"2015-02-11T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:58:41","slug":"hof-coach-tarkanian-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65182","title":{"rendered":"HOF coach Tarkanian passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tarkanianjerry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65183\" alt=\"tarkanianjerry\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tarkanianjerry.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>LAS VEGAS (AP) &#8211; Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian, who built a basketball dynasty at UNLV but was defined more by his decades-long battle with the NCAA, died Wednesday after several years of health issues. He was 84.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tarkanian put the run in the Runnin&#8217; Rebels, taking them to four Final Fours and winning a national championship in 1990.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His son, Danny Tarkanian, says his father fought an infection since he was hospitalized Monday in Las Vegas with breathing difficulty.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His teams were as flamboyant as the city, with light shows and fireworks for pregame introductions and celebrities jockeying for position on the so-called Gucci Row courtside.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He ended up beating the NCAA, too, collecting a $2.5 million settlement after suing the organization for trying to run him out of college basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0LAS VEGAS (AP) &#8211; Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian, who built a basketball dynasty at UNLV but was defined more by his decades-long battle with the NCAA, died Wednesday after several years of health issues. He was 84.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tarkanian put the run in the Runnin&#8217; Rebels, taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65185,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65182\/revisions\/65185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}