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	Ricky Byrdsong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ricky Byrdsong (June 24, 1956 – July 2, 1999) was a former Northwestern University basketball coach.
		Byrdsong coached the Wildcats from 1993 to 1997, leading them to a National Invitation Tournament berth in 1994.
		Byrdsong was shot as he jogged alongside his two youngest children, ages 8 and 10, near their home in Skokie, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ricky_Byrdsong (269 words)

	Ricky Byrdsong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ricky Byrdsong (June 24, 1956 - July 3, 1999) was a former Northwestern University basketball coach who was murdered by spree killer Benjamin Nathaniel Smith.
		Byrdsong coached the Wildcats from 1994 to 1997, leading them to a National Invitation Tournament berth in 1994.
		Walking with his children in Skokie, Illinois, he was fired at seven times; an autopsy later revealed a severed aorta and attributed internal bleeding as the cause of death.
	www.joliet.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ricky_Byrdsong (146 words)

	HSSP - This Byrdsong a Born Leader Too (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Byrdsong is still not sure if the college basketball route is for her, even though she wants basketball to remain a part of her life.
		Ricky Byrdsong took his children to the gym at Northwestern every Sunday with their friends, and that's where Kelley picked up a lot of her skills.
		Byrdsong remembers laughter when talking about Ricky, and a school project she had to do where she interviewed her dad about his job.
	www.hssp.cc /print?action=article&id=2674 (1960 words)

	CNN/SI - College Basketball - A CNN/SI reporter remembers Ricky Byrdsong - Saturday July 03, 1999 09:39 PM
		But for this journalist in particular, the senseless shooting death of former Northwestern basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong served as a reminder that there are definitely human lives involved in all this.
		Byrdsong was a deeply religious and a family man. Energetic little son Ricky Jr.
		Byrdsong's legacy in Evanston is mostly that of weirdness and bad luck -- and now, that extends to the sick circumstances surrounding his death.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/college/news/1999/07/03/mandel_byrdsong (504 words)

	Hour of Power
		Ricky Byrdsong was only 43 and a beloved basketball coach at Northwestern University when his life ended.
		Ricky Byrdsong had finished about two-thirds of a book he was writing at the time of his death.
		Ricky Byrdsong’s killer was a 21-year-old man (from an affluent home very close to the Byrdsongs neighborhood), who had become involved with a white supremacist group on the Internet.
	www.hourofpower.org /interviews/sherialyn_byrdsong.html (634 words)

	Saint Sabina.org - About St. Sabina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On July 2,1999 her husband, Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University head basketball coach and vice president of community affairs for Aon Corporation, was murdered by a white supremacist.
		Byrdsong has established The Ricky Byrdsong foundation and serves as president of its board of directors.
		Byrdsong is highly regarded as a youth motivational speaker, an advocate, community leader and public speaker on the issues of hate crimes and violence.
	www.saintsabina.org /spotlight/byrdsong2005.htm (375 words)

	Aon Mourns the Death of Ricky Byrdsong. - Business Wire - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Aon Corporation is deeply grieved to announce the death of Ricky Byrdsong, Vice President Community Affairs.
		Patrick G. Ryan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aon Corporation, stated, "It is with heartfelt sorrow that we mourn the death of Ricky Byrdsong.
		Ricky devoted his life to his family, to coaching and to working with disadvantaged children.
	highbeam.com /doc/1G1:55063739/Aon+Mourns+the+Death+of+Ricky+... (179 words)

	CNN/SI - College Basketball - Mourners recall Byrdsong as caring family man - Friday July 09, 1999 10:17 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Byrdsong went from Detroit Mercy to Northwestern, where he took the Wildcats to only their second postseason basketball appearance in school history.
		Byrdsong, who was 43 at the time of his death and working for an insurance company, is survived by his wife, Sherialyn, and three children.
		Marcia Byrdsong describes the depth of her brother's character and the irony of his death.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /basketball/college/news/1999/07/07/byrdsong_funeral (589 words)

	Guestbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ricky was passionate, compassionate and committed to strengthening America’s families.
		Ricky was murdered in front of two of his three children.
		Ricky Allen Byrdsong was born June 24, 1956 in Atlanta, Georgia.
	www.virtual-condolences.com /ByrdsongBio.html (236 words)

	Chicago Athlete -- Regional News Article
		When Ricky Byrdsong, the former Northwestern basketball coach, was gunned down in his north suburban neighborhood two years ago, it was another example of the frightening pattern of hate crimes and gun violence that poison America on a daily basis, Fortunately, in this case anyway, someone has said enough is enough.
		She also formed the Ricky Byrdsong Foundation, and proceeds from the event go to the foundation's Y.E.S. (Youth Education and Service) Program, originally begun by Ricky Byrdsong, when he was vice president for community affairs for AON Corporation.
		The race in Evanston on June 23 is in memory of Ricky Byrdsong, the former Northwestern basketball coach, who was was murdered while walking in his north suburban neighborhood.
	www.chicagoaa.com /news/Hate.html (802 words)

	Ricky Byrdsong Race Against Hate is Saturday :: Come join us in Evanston at 8 a.m. to celebrate diversity and late ...
		Ricky Byrdsong Race Against Hate is Saturday :: Come join us in Evanston at 8 a.m.
		The event is one of many held yearly to honor Ricky Byrdsong, a former Northwestern men's basketball coach who was tragically gunned down in a hate crime on July 2, 1999.
		The event is run by the Ricky Byrdsong Foundation, which was established in 1999 to continue his legacy of working with youth.
	nusports.cstv.com /genrel/062702aaa.html (265 words)

	CNN - FBI joins Chicago drive-by shootings investigation - June 3, 1999
		"Ricky Byrdsong was walking in an area near his home with family members, when he was fired at least seven times," Lt. Barry Silverberg, detective commander for the Skokie police department, told CNN on Saturday.
		Byrdsong, 42, was taken to Evanston Hospital, where he died during surgery at 12:42 a.m.
		Police said a vehicle matching the one witnesses described from the previous shootings was later involved "in a traffic dispute" in northern suburban Northbrook, and the driver fired a number of shots at four Asian males in another vehicle.
	www.cnn.com /US/9907/03/chicago.shootings.03 (504 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		EVANSTON (AP) - Ricky Byrdsong was fired yesterday as basketball coach of struggling Northwestern but will remain on the job through the end of the season - unless his players want him to leave sooner.
		Byrdsong, 40, did not attend the news conference but released a statement that he would let his players decide whether he coaches the Wildcats' final seven games of the season.
		In February 1994, Byrdsong took his infamous stroll, leaving the Northwestern team's bench during a game at Minnesota, wandering into the stands and slapping hands with Gopher fans and their mascot.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/feb/02-11-97/sports/sports5.html (386 words)

	Jet: Ex-College Basketball Coach Ricky Byrdsong Killed In White Racist's Shooting Spree, Mourned - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		More than 1,000 mourners gathered at an Evanston, IL, church to pay their last respects to Ricky Byrdsong, the former Northwestern University coach who was gunned down as he was jogging with two of his children near his home by a White racist.
		Byrdsong was jogging with his daughter, Kelley, 10, and son, Ricky Jr., 8, in their predominately White neighborhood when a gunman in a car pulled up beside them and began shooting.
		Byrdsong was a vice president for insurance broker Aon Corporation since his tenure ended at Northwestern where he was coach from 1993 until 1997.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_8_96/ai_55398754 (437 words)

	CNN - Widow of Chicago shooting victim: America has 'heart problem' - July 4, 1999
		Byrdsong was gunned down in front of his suburban Chicago home Friday night while walking with his son and one of his daughters.
		Byrdsong's wife says the shooting of her husband is a wake-up call for America
		Lyle Foster, the pastor of the Worship Center, said Byrdsong served as a deacon in his church and was on the board of directors.
	www.cnn.com /US/9907/04/byrdsongs (387 words)

	Hero-4 Sample
		Ricky Byrdsong was only fifteen when he met Sherialyn Kelley on a blind date on Christmas Day, 1972.
		Working with Ricky’s co-writers, she helped oversee his book to completion, making sure that it reflected the heart of what he wanted to say to parents.
		All three of the Byrdsong kids ran in the Ricky Byrdsong Memorial 5K Run a year after their father was killed, an event which brought together nearly two-thousand people of all races pledging themselves to work against violence and hate.
	trailblazerbooks.com /books/HeroTales/Hero4-Smpl.html (2569 words)

	Elliott Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Byrdsong’s most famous moment with NU was probably when he went "crazy" during a game against Minnesota, when he went through the stands at Williams Arena, shaking hands with fans and playing with Minnesota mascot Goldy Gopher.
		At the time, everyone, including myself, thought that Byrdsong had gone wacko under the stress of handling a team that was not living up to the mild expectations it had.
		Byrdsong was a doting father to his four children, but he also treated the students of Northwestern with a special place in his heart.
	www.oaoa.com /columns/elliott070699.htm (672 words)

	Fifth Anniversary of Birdsong's Murder Draws Crowd :: 2,000 show up to support diversity
		Foster, now a board member for the Ricky Byrdsong Foundation, was one of about 2,000 people who gathered at Long Field early Sunday morning to support diversity and honor Byrdsong's memory at the Fifth Annual Ricky Byrdsong Memorial 5K Race Against Hate.
		The race along Sheridan Road is the main event for the Ricky Byrdsong Foundation and is designed to raise public awareness about diversity issues, said Sherialyn Byrdsong, Ricky Byrdsong's widow and president of the foundation's board of directors.
		Burns said Sherialyn Byrdsong has poured her heart into her work and that it was easy for her to agree to help when Sherialyn Byrdsong asked her to.
	www.cstv.com /sports/m-baskbl/stories/070604aah.html (511 words)

	Amazon.ca: No Random Act: Behind the Murder of Ricky Byrdsong: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Jacksons and Byrdsongs are members of The Worship Center, a multi-racial nondenominational church in Evanston, Illinois.
		Ricky Byrdsong is a Christian martyr, gunned down because he was such a vibrant, courageous,
		The story of Ricky Byrdsong's life is a grace note of hope in the midst of this truly sobering book.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1578565081 (1519 words)

	Coaching Your Kids in the Game of Life : Reviews, Prices, Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Ricky's senseless death was widely reported on the national news over the 4th of July in 1999 I was stunned and heartbroke.
		As a Chicago area native, I recall the day that Ricky Byrdsong was murdered in a random shooting by a racist gunman on a spree across two states.
		You can hear Byrdsong's voice in the words which thankfully were not ghostwritten by someone else for him.
	www.smartybrain.com /shop/product/0764223534/Coaching_Your_Kids_in_the_Game_of_Life.html (371 words)

	THE RICKY BYRDSONG SPIRIT AWARDS GALA
		Jeff admired the manner in which Coach Byrdsong interacted with his players and saw first hand how young people’s lives were greatly impacted by the positive relationship.
		The next award, The Ricky Byrdsong Spirit of America Award, was presented to Todd Beamer.
		The Ricky Byrdsong Spirit of Citizenship Award was presented to Superintendent Terry Hillard.
	www.virtual-condolences.com /SpiritGala.htm (932 words)

	Turning Hate Around - Women
		As Ricky and the kids were walking a block from their house, Benjamin Smith, a white supremacist, cruised up from behind Ricky, leaned out his car window, and savagely shot a rapid round of gunfire.
		She rushed to get him medical attention, but several hours later, after emergency surgery, Ricky died—simply because he was fl, and had been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
		Ironically, his death came one week after Ricky had signed a book contract on a topic about which he was passionate: adapting what he'd learned on the basketball court as a coach, and applying it to building stronger families.
	www.christianitytoday.com /tcw/2001/004/1.20.html (3204 words)

	Race Against Hate - Evanston/North Shore
		The Race memorializes Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University Basketball Coach, Vice President of Affairs at Aon Corporation, and Skokie resident who was murdered in 1999 while walking in his neighborhood with two of his young children.
		Because of Ricky’s lifelong love of sports and his compelling work with young people in the community, this race was launched by family and friends to honor his legacy and bring attention to the need to combat hatred in all its forms.
		Ricky Byrdsong's book, Coaching Your Kids in the Game of Life (Bethany House Publishers) will be available for purchase at the Race. Read about it online here.
	www.ywca.org /site/pp.asp?c=erLOK1PJLsF&b=1078807 (777 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Panel thinks about the unthinkable
		There was Judy Shepard, whose son, Matthew, was beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in October 1998; Sherialyn Byrdsong, whose husband, Ricky, was shot through the aorta while taking a walk with his children in July 1999; and Ismael Ileto whose brother, Joseph, a postal worker, was gunned down in August 1999.
		Shepard, Byrdsong, and Ileto took part in a panel discussion Feb. 14 in Sanders Theatre titled "Families of Victims and Social Advocacy: How Can We Address and Deal with Hate Crimes?" The discussion was part of a series of events sponsored jointly by the Harvard Foundation and the Memorial Church.
		Sherialyn Byrdsong's husband, Ricky, a fl former coach of the Northwestern University basketball team, was killed in a drive-by shooting by Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, whom neighbors described as "a one-man hate squad."
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/02.22/11-hatecrime.html (1109 words)

	Battling Bigotry - Christianity Today Magazine
		Byrdsong, the former head basketball coach at Northwestern University in nearby Evanston, was African American.
		For Sherialyn Byrdsong, now 46, the shock of losing her husband was matched by anger about his murderer's motive.
		Ricky Byrdsong's death represented one item on the FBI's 1999 list of 7,876 hate crimes—defined as "a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/ national origin."
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2003/005/13.24.html (1045 words)

	Cagers survive last-minute comeback
		Ricky Byrdsong's tactics may be unorthodox, but they seem to work.
		Byrdsong credits the support he received from his players as being a main source of strength.
		Byrdsong knew the Wildcats had the motivation, they just needed something drastic to shake it up.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1994/03/03-03-94tdc/03-03-94dsports-8.asp (492 words)

	JUF News and Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is making funds available for the college education of the children of Sherialyn Byrdsong through Federation’s Fund for Hate Crime Victims and Families on the sixth anniverary of the tragic murder of Mrs.
		Byrdsong, former basketball coach at Northwestern University, was murdered on Friday, July 2, 1999 by Benjamin Smith, a follower of Matthew Hale, during a hate-filled shooting spree.
		Byrdsong’s tragic murder, the Jewish Federation established the fund to help hate crime victims and families and community members have contributed to this fund.
	www.juf.org /news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=6189 (295 words)

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