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Bookmark or Share- "Don't Give Up" by Jim Valvano speech transcript - James ClearJim Valvano (Jimmy V) was an American basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. In this speech, given shortly before he died from cancer, Valvano announced the beginning of the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
- Jim Valvano - WikipediaJames Thomas Anthony Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. [1] [2] Valvano had a successful coaching career with multiple schools, culminating at NC State.
- Valvano Dies After Cancer Fight - Los Angeles TimesJim Valvano, the former North Carolina State basketball coach whose life was a bittersweet mixture of triumph and controversy, died Wednesday morning after a yearlong bout against bone...
- Inside the last days of Jim Valvano's fight against cancerGravely ill with cancer, Jim Valvano is fighting for his life the same way he coached basketball, by learning all he can, talking up a storm and insisting on the last shot
- Despite cancer, my dad, Jimmy V, didn't give up. That hope lives onMy dad, Jim Valvano, gave me brown eyes, a love of poetry, his outgoing personality and long legs. I also inherited his predisposition to cancer.
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