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re: Former LSU basketball player Willie Sims has passed away.

Posted on 12/25/22 at 5:22 pm to
Posted by Relham10
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Posted on 12/25/22 at 5:22 pm to
Rip
Posted by soccerfüt
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Member since May 2013
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Posted on 12/25/22 at 5:25 pm to
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The Black Jet. I played in some of those pickup games at the field house in the late 70’s. It was great that a D 1 player would come play in the off season with a bunch of wanna be hoopers. He was always going on about you gotta play defense, and he did. This is so sad.RIP. He was a great Tiger.
Very nice insight to how he looked at the game. He obviously loved it by playing it when he didn’t have to.

Sad for him & his family & friends.

Thanks for sharing this memory.
Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6--Brazos River Backwater
Member since Sep 2015
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Posted on 12/25/22 at 9:36 pm to
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Wayne sims

You mean Wayde Sims?
Posted by Dwainwright
Member since Jun 2017
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Posted on 12/26/22 at 8:08 am to
I was there too !! Sat right behind Joe Dean Sr. If only Rudy had not gotten hurt !!
Posted by tigahlovah
virginia beach, va
Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 12/26/22 at 11:22 pm to
I'm 99.9% sure Hawthorne was doing the basketball games when Rudolph hit the 2 free throws at Ole Miss. He then took over the football broadcasts from the GREAT John Ferguson a year or 2 later. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
This post was edited on 12/26/22 at 11:23 pm
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 3/5/23 at 11:16 am to
Southern Jewish Life magazine printed a really good story on Willie's passing and life.

It's page 21 here:

LINK

Truly, a unique lived experience. A peer group of one.

Does anyone remember his Israeli son in law playing for the Pelicans?
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