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merry
08-18-2009, 12:47 PM
I figure this could be "on topic" since he was a huge Maryland basketball fan and was treated at Duke Hospital...

The Post is reporting Novak has passed away at age 78. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081801761.html?hpid=topnews)
slower
08-18-2009, 01:03 PM
I figure this could be "on topic" since he was a huge Maryland basketball fan and was treated at Duke Hospital...

The Post is reporting Novak has passed away at age 78. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081801761.html?hpid=topnews)

You may be opening a can of worms with this one.
Indoor66
08-18-2009, 01:08 PM
You may be opening a can of worms with this one.

Novak was a fixture at the ACC Tournament. He loved college basketball and his Terps. He was a rabid but fair fan.

I wish for him to RIP. Politics is not an issue on this one, IMO. He was one of us as a basketball fan.
roywhite
08-18-2009, 01:24 PM
Novak was a fixture at the ACC Tournament. He loved college basketball and his Terps. He was a rabid but fair fan.

I wish for him to RIP. Politics is not an issue on this one, IMO. He was one of us as a basketball fan.

Yeah, he knew and loved hoops. I remember the basketball discussions on "Capital Gang" where Novak would represent the Terps, and Al Hunt would speak for his alma mater, Wake, and occasionally for his wife Judi Woodruff's alma mater, Duke. If I recall correctly, Bob would be Greensboro or whatever the site of the ACC Tournament was, and appear on the show via a remote feed.
arydolphin
08-18-2009, 01:29 PM
I remember seeing him behind the Maryland bench a couple of times at Cameron during my years at Duke (1997-2001), was a huge UMD fan.
weezie
08-19-2009, 08:15 AM
We were on the same flight with him after the second MN win; he was pretty grouchy after Duke's dismantling of MD but he was a fair fan. He surely loved the hoops.
superdave
08-19-2009, 01:54 PM
I became a big fan of Novak's columns because they were so juicy. He really embraced being in DC as well, evidenced by U of M fandom. I think he even said he voted for Marion Barry for the entertainment value.

Glad to have had him as an ACC fan in Big East territory.