Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
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NEWPORT, R.I. — It was Easter Week of 2007 and Ryan D’Imperio was laid up in a hospital bed when Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano came in to console him.
Schiano was down in the dumps because one of his best linebacker’s had just snapped his leg in three places — “It was nasty, really bad,” the coach said — during a spring practice.
“Coach, I’ll be fine. I’ll be back. I’ll get out of here and I’ll rehab. I’ll be back before you know it,” D’Imperio calmly told the coach from his hospital bed.
A distraught Schiano couldn’t quite believe what he was hearing.
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