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Colangelo had two stints as head coach during that decade, compiling a record of 59 wins and 60 losses.
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Colangelo fired Showalter after a relatively disappointing 2000 season, and replaced him with Bob Brenly, the former Giants catcher and coach, who had up to that point been working as a color analyst on Diamondbacks television broadcasts.
Colangelo ’ s willingness to go into debt and acquire players through free agency had led to one of the quickest free falls in major sports history.
Burke and Gluckstern originally planned to move the team to Minnesota ( which had lost the North Stars to Dallas in 1993 ), but eventually reached an agreement with Phoenix businessman Jerry Colangelo that would see the team move to Arizona and become the Phoenix Coyotes.
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Colangelo was an assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls basketball team.
In 1970, Fitzsimmons replaced Jerry Colangelo as Suns coach.
Like in Seattle, he often clashed with his coach, John MacLeod, and was finally traded by general manager Jerry Colangelo to the Boston Celtics for Rick Robey and draft picks.
Colangelo and .
In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
From the beginning, Colangelo wanted to market the Diamondbacks to a statewide fan base and not limit fan appeal to Phoenix and its suburbs.
Two years before their first opening day, Colangelo hired Buck Showalter, the American League Manager of the Year in 1994 with the New York Yankees.
This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.
Colangelo sold his interest in the General Partnership of the Diamondbacks to a group of investors who were all involved as partners in the founding of the team in 1995.
Jerry Colangelo ( born November 20, 1939 ), is an American businessman and sports executive.
In the summer of 2005, Colangelo was named director of USA Basketball whose team represented the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 FIBA World Championship.
Colangelo also serves as Chairman of the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ), a nonprofit nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes Italian American culture and heritage.
Colangelo has been known for a no-nonsense ownership style.
Colangelo was born and raised in Chicago Heights, Illinois where he played basketball and baseball for Bloom Township High School.
In his autobiography, How You Play the Game, Colangelo tells of working after graduating college at the House of Charles, a tuxedo rental shop in Chicago Heights.
Colangelo put together a group that bought the Suns in late 1987, in the wake of the drug scandal.
In 1989, Colangelo was an essential part of the group that planned to build America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ), providing financial backing.
In 1992, Colangelo traded Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry, and Andrew Lang to the Philadelphia 76ers for Charles Barkley.
Barkley's relationship with Colangelo, however, grew sour over the years, and in 1996, he was traded to the Houston Rockets.
Colangelo declared himself a born-again Christian, a reason that he credits for his change of heart about Barkley.
Colangelo has been involved in many professional sports teams in Arizona.
While in Chicago for a Suns game, Colangelo attended a Chicago Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field.
For his new baseball club, Colangelo hired Joe Garagiola, Jr. as General Manager.
Showalter and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner did not agree to a contract extension, so Colangelo quickly hired Showalter as future manager of the Diamondbacks.
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He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.
Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.
He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.
He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.
Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.
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