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  Doug Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Douglas Collins (born July 28, 1951 in Christopher, Illinois), better known as Doug Collins, is a former NBA basketball player and announcer who has also been the head coach of a number of NBA teams.
Collins enjoyed a successful high school career in his home state, after which he went on to become one of the best college players in his country.
Collins was named the head coach of the Detroit Pistons in 1995, for whom he served until 1997 when he was fired at the end of the season and replaced by Alvin Gentry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doug_Collins   (884 words)

  
 NBA.com: Doug Collins Coach Info
Collins is a seven-year veteran of the NBA coaching ranks, having coached Michael Jordan and the Bulls in his first job as a NBA head coach and three years with Grant Hill and the Detroit Pistons.
Collins began his NBA coaching career as head coach for the Chicago Bulls, joining the organization on May 23, 1986 and coached the Bulls for three straight seasons.
Collins has earned a reputation as a teacher and his record of working with young potential stars is impeccable.
www.nba.com /coachfile/doug_collins/?nav=page   (906 words)

  
 Doug Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Collins, a 6'6" guard from Illinois State, played 8 years in NBA …..all with Philadelphia.
Collins played in 3 All-Star games and was a member of the famous '72 U.S.A. Olympic team that lost to Russia in the finals in Munich after the refs gave the Russians 3 chances to win the game.
Collins has been an NBA coach and is now an NBA commentator.
www.dickscourtroom.com /collins_doug.htm   (65 words)

  
 Doug Collins Bio
Collins sank 2 free throws after being fouled hard with 3 seconds to play to give the USA a 50-49 lead over the Soviet Union in the gold medal game.
Collins earned a reputation as strong advocate of defense as his Pistons teams ranked second in the NBA for two straight seasons.
Doug was widely regarded as television's finest basketball analyst.
www.redbirdfan.com /roster/doug_collins.html   (1038 words)

  
 SI.com - Pro Basketball - Wizards fire Collins, reportedly will pursue Brown - Friday May 30, 2003 07:41 PM
Collins had two years remaining on his four-year contract, but his days were numbered once Pollin decided not to let Jordan, who had retired as a player again, return to the front office.
Collins was an obvious member of the Jordan camp in a franchise that had splintered into two groups -- one supporting the owner, the other supporting Jordan.
Collins coached Jordan and the Chicago Bulls from 1986-89 and the Detroit Pistons from 1995-98 and was working as a TV analyst when Jordan lured him back to the sidelines.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/news/2003/05/30/wizards_collins_ap   (817 words)

  
 Anti-Fascist News -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Collins has addressed the Institute for Historical Review, is praised by that body and has been published in their journal The Journal of Historical Review.
It is also a fact that Collins has addressed them, has been published by them, is praised by them, recommends to his readers books distributed by them, and his holocaust-denying articles present the same type of arguments that are put forward by IHR and other neo-Nazi groups.
Whatever The North Shore News' motives in publishing Collins might be, it is not the case that equal exposure is given in that paper to all sides of the debate.
www.web.net /~ara/documents/news/dcollins.html   (1703 words)

  
 Freedom's just another word...
Collins and the North Shore News say they are entitled to expose people to hatred and contempt because of their race or religion.
Christie called Collins as an expert witness in Zundel's defence, most of which revolved around Christie's contention that "the Zionists" were wielding their power to curtail freedom of speech with the result that the public was prevented from challenging the "propaganda" about the 6-million.
Collins was engaging in the expression of opinion, not writing a news story," wrote the Press Council's executive secretary Gerry Porter summarizing the adjudication.
www.codoh.com /reference/freedmsjstnthrwrd.html   (5256 words)

  
 www.REVISIONISTS.com -- Meet Doug Collins (1920-2001)
Doug Collins was born in 1920 in the United Kingdom.
Doug Collins is the author of several books, including his wartime memoir, POW: A Soldier's Story of His Ten Escapes from Nazi Prison Camps (New York: W.W. Norton, 1968), Immigration: Parliament versus the People (1986), The Best and Worst of Doug Collins (1988), and Here We Go Again (1998).
Collins was hauled before a quasi-court by Holocaust Enforcers when he wrote a column about "Swindler's List" and commented on the preponderance of Jews in Hollywood.
www.revisionists.com /revisionists/collins.html   (569 words)

  
 CBS News | Pistons Fire Coach Doug Collins | December 13, 1999 05:18:30
Doug Collins was fired as coach of the Detroit Pistons Monday, ending a stint in which he clashed with his players and failed to get his team above.500 this season.
Collins learned of his removal while with the team in Washington and reportedly was on the way to the office of his agent, Tom Langel, in Philadelphia.
Collins was fired by the Chicago Bulls in 1989 after three seasons as head coach because the players viewed him as an emotional rollercoaster.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/02/02/archive/main1793.shtml   (364 words)

  
 The Canadian Association for Free Expression - Doug Collins Guilty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Collins, who is now retired, and the newspaper were ordered to pay C$2,000 to Harry Abrams, a Victoria businessman who filed a complaint over the articles.
Collins and the newspaper refused to participate in the tribunal's hearings last year, arguing it was a rehearing of a complaint by the Canadian Jewish Congress that the human rights panel had already dismissed.
Finally, the council said it is puzzled by the fact that the column which was the subject of the first Collins case and which was found not to be in violation of the Code, was also one of the columns used by the Tribunal in the latest complaint.
www.canadianfreespeech.com /updates/collins/doug_collins_guilty.html   (1847 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Collins Faces Toughest Test
Collins was named the team's seventh coach since 1997 at an MCI Center news conference yesterday, signing a contract believed to be for four years and worth between $8 million and $10 million.
He was an assistant coach when Collins, until then a mostly unknown guard from obscure Illinois State, starred on the 1972 U.S. Olympic team that suffered a controversial loss to the former Soviet Union for the gold medal.
That's not entirely true, because Collins was chosen by the Philadelphia 76ers with the top pick in the 1973 draft and helped lead them from a 9-73 record to the Eastern Conference title four years later, before losing to Portland in the NBA finals.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A36177-2001Apr19?language=printer   (1083 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Wizards fire Collins
Doug Collins (left, with Michael Jordan) was fired as coach of the Washington Wizards on Friday, following Jordan out the door in another shake up by owner Abe Pollin.
Collins was Jordan's hand-picked choice for the Wizards, who failed to make the playoffs in Jordan's two seasons with the team.
Collins was dismissed even as Pollin was promising refunds to fans who were unhappy with his offseason moves.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20030530-1245-bkn-wizards-collins.html   (472 words)

  
 WIZARDS: Wizards Name NBA Veteran Coach Doug Collins as New Head Coach
The Wizards' part-owner and president of basketball operations hired Collins, an NBA analyst and former coach of the Bulls and Pistons, as the team's sixth head coach in 25 months.
Collins follows a trail littered with unsuccessful attempts to turn around the Wizards, who haven't won a playoff game in 13 years.
Collins was succeeded in Chicago by Phil Jackson, who led Jordan and the Bulls to six NBA titles.
www.nba.com /wizards/news/doug_collins_010417.html   (846 words)

  
 KET's Underground Railroad - Behind the Scenes - Doug Collins
As soon as he heard about plans to make a documentary about the underground railroad in Kentucky, Doug Collins wanted to work on the project.
Doug was fascinated by a slave cemetery behind the house which is now buried under a garage built by a subsequent owner, illustrative of the fate of much of the artifacts remaining of Kentucky's slave history.
Doug recorded the "nat sound", or the realistic sounds heard on the program, like the scratching at Maplewood and the running through the woods.
www.ket.org /underground/behind/collins.htm   (191 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NBA - MJ, sure, but Collins makes Wiz better, too
Doug Collins is all smiles after becoming the head coach of the Wizards.
Collins was a surprise hire by the Chicago Bulls in 1986, shortly after they'd been eliminated by the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs.
Doug Collins is expecting Michael Jordan to shine at Madison Square Garden.
espn.go.com /nba/columns/may/1262148.html   (1060 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Collins' intensity is being viewed as a negative attribute, but those who watch the Wiz regularly realize that they lack competitive intensity on a regular basis.
I would think that Collins would be a great shot in the arm in that regard, especially considering his level of basketball knowledge and experience.
Collins arrives as a longtime model of athletics excellence, discipline, passion, confidence, commitment, character and integrity.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/sports_wyche042001.htm   (4126 words)

  
 Free Speech isn't just for Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Collins, as pretty much everybody in the country now knows, is the Vancouver newspaper columnist who has been charged with a hate crime by the British Columbia Human Rights Commission for denying in print the reality of the Holocaust.
Collins, unlike James Keegstra and Malcolm Ross (who propounded similar poisonous views) is not entrusted with the education of the young.
They don't understand that the Doug Collins case is just the natural, logical extension of the powers the human rights commissions have asserted in the past.
www.efc.ca /pages/media/financial-post.25may97.html   (731 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about Doug Collins & Allan Fotheringham
Collins was a sergeant in the British army who told of surviving 10 escapes or near-escapes from Nazi prisoner-of-war camps.
Fotheringham said Collins was "the toughest man I ever met" and "a true radical who listened only to his own inner drum." He admired the man's gusto and once got him a job as a columnist on The Vancouver Sun.
Fotheringham take Collins' view that David Irving, a famous Holocaust denier, lost his libel action in London last year because "No judge, British or otherwise, was about to take on the world-wide Jewish Establishment." Collins got everything about the Irving case dead wrong.
www.robertfulford.com /DougCollins.html   (759 words)

  
 The Canadian Association for Free Expression - Doug Collins Letter to Conrad Black   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Doug's fight is being backed by the Canadian Free Speech League (CFSL) and the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), which is seeking intervenor status, with Vancouver lawyer Gus Kroll as its counsel.
Of course they supported freedom of speech, but Doug Collins was "disreputable" and his case was not the one over which to fight the law.
Here is some recent correspondence between Doug Collins and Conrad Black, headed off by a letter which must stand as one of the most eloquent in the fight for free speech in Canada.
www.canadianfreespeech.com /updates/collins/collins_takes_on_black.html   (2737 words)

  
 DOUG COLLINS -- Here We Go Again (Book for sale)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Doug "The Devil" Collins is alive and in your face and set to open the bomb-bay doors on another incendiary load of dangerous opinion.
For Doug the Devil, the decision was his way of ensuring that the book was an uncensored and uncompromised dose of the Collins brand of free speech.
As the late great [Judge] Les Bewley wrote in his Best and Worst of Doug Collins foreword: "the Best and Worst of Doug Collins is a strong fresh breeze in an age where common sense and courage are frowned upon.
www.canadafirst.net /immi-books/collins_book.html   (778 words)

  
 Another Shot fired at Free Speech. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Doug Collins (very active member of the community until his death in 2001 at age 81, provided legal counsel to Mr.
Doug Collins was a much decorated war hero and a true Canadian patriot who tirelessly fought for freedom in unfree Canada and challenged the system and political correctness, right to the very end.
Doug Collins was a great friend and we in CAFE helped him in his free speech battles.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=151501   (1234 words)

  
 Brain-dead journalism alive with Collins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Writers like myself are supposed to fall lemming-like into line behind Collins, arguing against press censorship and for his right to hold whatever goofy opinions he wants.
It's about why people like Doug Collins manage to keep a job when they are so clearly over the hill and gone.
Collins didn't really escape from them, he merely asked for a transfer to try out the different cuisines.
www.web.net /~ara/documents/news/braindead.html   (566 words)

  
 Warren Kinsella
Allan Fotheringham (who writes opinion columns for the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s) and Doug Fisher (who does similarly for the Sun chain), have lately provided yet more evidence of their fitness for retirement, having enthusiastically taken up the mantle of one of their deceased colleagues, Doug Collins.
Collins - who claimed, repeatedly, that he was a war hero - was “the toughest man I ever met,” “who defended anyone who wanted to say anything,” was “defiant,” possessed “gusto,” and was “admirable.” (In his most recent column singing Mr.
Collins were his actual words, which would have easily revealed him to be a vengeful old Jew-hater, homophobe and racist.
www.warrenkinsella.com /words_extremism_fh.htm   (778 words)

  
 MEN'S BASKETBALL: Collecting Collins' wisdom - Sports
One of Doug Collins' first drills at the Notre Dame Basketball Coaches Clinic on Saturday began with an entry pass to the wing.
Collins came at the request of Notre Dame coach Mike Brey, who pled guilty to taking full advantage of such a respected and thorough basketball mind being available to his team.
Brey and Collins have been close friends since their first meeting, when Brey was an assistant at Duke University recruiting Collins' son, Chris.
media.www.ndsmcobserver.com /media/storage/paper660/news/2005/10/10/Sports/Mens-Basketball.Collecting.Collins.Wisdom-1015328.shtml?sourcedomain=www.ndsmcobserver.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com   (395 words)

  
 Collins and Jordan reprised? - Fantasy Sports Wire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hiring Collins would pave the way for Jordan, the Wizards president and part owner, to divest himself at least temporarily of ownership in accordance to NBA rules, and return as a player next season after a three-year hiatus.
Collins has been an NBA analyst at NBC since he was fired by the Detroit Pistons 45 games into the 1997-98 season, and Jordan has been working on him in recent weeks.
Jordan had to be certain Collins had fully accepted the deal on the heels of a faux pas as a rookie team president when he fired Garfield Heard 44 games into last season.
sportsforum.ws /showthread.php?t=2298   (664 words)

  
 Welcome to the Jewish Independent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Having failed to get a response from a company that printed a tribute to the late columnist Doug Collins, Canadian Jewish Congress is asking members of the community to consider where they buy their outdoor gear.
The tribunal ruled that the columns written by Doug Collins and published in the North Shore News were likely to expose Jewish persons to hatred or contempt because of their race, religion or ancestry contrary to s.
Your tribute says Doug Collins was a defender of free speech but does not inform its readers about the hate Doug Collins promulgated....
www.jewishbulletin.ca /archives/Jan02/archives02jan18-02.html   (523 words)

  
 New Doug Collins Book Takes Aim at Cant and Bigotry
Doug Collins -- the first Canadian journalist to be hauled before a "Human Rights Tribunal" -- is once again delighting fans and confounding enemies with the publication of Here We Go Again!, a collection of 100 of his North Shore News columns.
Collins can take special pride in his "Rambo Rough and Ready" column, apparently the first critical look published anywhere of the "memoir" of Australian Donald Watt, who recounted hair-raising experiences as a wartime prisoner at Auschwitz and other German camps.
Collins' presentation at the 1990 IHR Conference, "Reflections on the Second World War, Free Speech and Revisionism," was published in the Fall 1991 Journal.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v17/v17n6p29_Collins.html   (585 words)

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