European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse A. Uno s eagles Dies at 45 by. A Salt Lake City a Tommy Joe eagles basketball a. Coach at the University of new Orleans collapsed while playing basketball saturday and died a Short time later. He was 45. Eagles was visiting with Phoe Nix suns assistant Scotty Robertson and several former play ers who were participating in the Rocky Mountain revue at the Delta Center. According to Robertson eagles and one of his former play ers suns Rookie Forward Aaron Swinson remained on the floor after practice at Salt Lake Community College to work on swin son s shooting. After throwing a pass to swin son eagles collapsed and did t regain consciousness. Paramedics were unable to revive eagles. He s a non Drinker non smoker and Jogger Robertson said. He was supposedly in excellent shape. We re All just Dev eagles a Louisiana native who played and later coached at Louisiana tech resigned under pressure in March after Auburn posted a disappointing 11-17 season. A his record at the Southeast Ern conference school was 64-78 in five seasons during which the school failed to make then Caa tournament in which it had been a fixture from 1983-88. With players like Chuck person and Charles Barkley. Eagles was replaced by Cliff Ellis formerly of Clemson. This is a Shock. It s a trag Edy. There is a tremendous sense of loss said David Housel who took Over As athletic director at Auburn shortly after eagles resigned. There also is a sense of loss for All the Young men who Wouldhave Learned about basketball and about the ups and Downs of life As coach eagles continued his career. There was More to this Man than basketball.". Eagles accepted the new or leans Job on May 31, replacing Tim Floyd who was hired by Iowa state. Eagles was 97-40 with Louisi Ana tech and his teams led by current Utah jazz Star Karl Malone made two appearances each in the Mcaa tournament and the National invitation tournament., survivors include his wife Connie son Jamie a freshman basketball player at new or leans and daughter Katie All of Mandeville la. Tommy Joe eagles. Sex Auburn coach the stars and stripes comeback gives Unser Roc win Brooklyn Mich. A Al unserjr., getting some late help from new series Champion Mark Martin won the International race of champions finale saturday at Michigan International , an indy car Star who is leading the pig cup Points race led Only the final four laps of the 50-Lap race on Michigan s High banked two mile s record eighth iroc Victory and third at Michigan was the culmination of an impressive comeback after he tried a Low move on the banking an went All the Way from second to ninth near the Midway Point of the was Back among the top five by Lap 34 and stayed with the leaders the rest of the Way finally moving past Martin to take the Lead on Lap 47.that s the Way it finished with Martin satisfied to protect second place from Fel Low Lascar Winston cup stars Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt finishing0 347-seconds behind in the race among 12 identically prepared Dodge at the end i knew if i pushed him to the finish and staved second i d win the championship said Martin who won $200,000 and a new Avenger passenger car. Sunday update a i. T so s
