Last night the basketball world lost one of its own, as former Notre Dame and Chicago Bulls forward Orlando Woolridge was pronounced dead at his parents’ home in Mansfield, La. According to the Shreveport Times, Woolridge had been under hospice care for a chronic heart condition. Woolridge, a 2010 inductee into the Louisiana Sports Hall [...]
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