Billy Tubbs, former Oklahoma basketball coach, dies at 85 ...Middle East

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Billy Tubbs, the colorful coach with the high-octane system known as Billy Ball who brought Oklahoma basketball to prominence in the 1980s, died Sunday. He was 85. Tubbs’ family said in a statement that he battled leukemia since being diagnosed in 2015. The statement said he died peacefully surrounded by family. A news release from the University of Oklahoma said Tubbs died in Norman. “Though his passing represents a tremendous loss for everyone close to him, our family is comforted by the knowledge he lived an extremely spirited life full of outstanding accomplishment in and out of sports,” the statement said. Tubbs took over a struggling Oklahoma program in 1980. His fast-paced offenses a

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