The 58th Annual Eldorado Holiday Tournament will take place December 26th through December 28th at the historic Duff-Kingston Gymnasium. The Herrin Tigers were unsurprisingly given the #1 seed for the 2nd year in a row. Herrin is a perfcet 7-0 on the year, which features […]
Legacy of Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan, his late wife, lives on in their Illinois hometown
Legacy of Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan, his late wife, lives on in their Illinois hometown
and last updated 2021-05-13 00:00:36-04
MCLEANSBORO, Illinois â When you pull into this town, one of the first things you can see is Hamilton County Junior/Senior High School.
It sits on Jerry Sloan Drive. And if you follow the drive around to the back of the school, you find the gymnasium named for the late Utah Jazz Coach.
âI probably first met Coach Sloan in the fourth grade at his basketball camp here in town,â said Doug Miller, the boyâs basketball coach for Sloanâs old team, the Hamilton County High School Foxes.