Longtime Navy Coach Dead at 92: Ben Carnevale, a Hall of Famer who coached Navy for 20 years and was a longtime head of the U.S. Olympic Basketball committee, has died. He was 92. Carnevale played at New York University and won a national championship in 1935. He served in the Navy during World War II and received a Purple Heart. After the war, he coach North Carolina for two seasons, taking them to a national title game in 1946. He took over at Navy that year and would stay there for two decades and is the school’s all-time winningest coach. He would later serve as athletic director at NYU and William and Mary and also served as the comissioner of the Colonial Athletic Association. The cause of death wasn’t announced. [4/01/08]
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The Seven C’s of Leadership
Former college basketball coach Mike Jarvis is back with a new book, The Seven C's of Leadership.
"Every one of us has leadership within us and this book offers fascinating principals that work in any setting—from the locker room to the executive board room. In The Seven C's of Leadership, Coach Jarvis lays out the essential ingredients of leadership."
-Jay Wright, NCAA Championship Men’s Basketball Coach, Villanova University
"At a time in America when we are witnessing an epidemic of opioid addictions and deaths, along with suicides, we need Coach Jarvis' Seven C's of Leadership – grounded in the power of Christ alone where we should all make our stand.”
-Lietenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired), Bronze Star recipient, and Member 112th U.S. Congress
"The Seven C's of Leadership is a slam dunk! Coach Jarvis has always been an outstanding leader because he has the ability to decipher what true leadership really means.”
-Dale Brown, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, LSU, 1972-1997, Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and Shaquille O’Neal’s college coach