John Thompson's teams mirrored their coach's own fearlessness, and his impact on college basketball endures 20-plus years after he hung up the whistle.

In his autobiography, “I Came as a Shadow,” Thompson recalls his childhood in segregated Washington, D.C., and his decades as both an athletic and a cultural force.

John Thompson Jr., who died Sunday night at 78, was a towering presence in college basketball, both in physical stature and impact on the court. Most important, according to esteemed peers who ...

John Thompson Jr., the Washington native who elevated Georgetown University basketball to national prominence, earned Hall of Fame honors and carved a place in history as the first African ...

Georgetown's Hall of Fame coach was a serious thinker, a wise man who relished every moment of his monumental life and a catalyst for change.

Thompson was the first Black head coach to win a national championship and a huge voice on social justice in the NCAA during the 1980s.

“Big John” didn’t care if being woke made him broke. He refused to be a homogenized, palatable Black man to appease ill-intentioned White America.

Head coach John Thompson of the Georgetown Hoyas looks on and reacts during an NCAA basketball game circa 1984 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. Thompson coached at Georgetown from 1972 ...

Georgetown parted ways Thursday with John Thompson III, its men’s basketball coach for the past 13 seasons, in a painful separation from a family coaching tradition that built a national power ...

John Thompson transformed Georgetown University's basketball program, paved the way for African American coaches in the NCAA and mentored some of the biggest stars in the NBA.

Don’t bother asking John Thompson III about unwinding or getting away. He has been coaching collegiate basketball for more than 20 consecutive years, but don’t bother wondering whether he ...