Basketball coach Chuck Daly dies Saturday morning at 78

Hall of Fame basketball Chuck Daly died this morning at the age of 78.

Per MSNBC, the former Detriot Pistons coach was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had been undergoing treatment.

Daly was the first coach to win an NBA title and a gold medal. He coached the Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990, and the original Dream Team to a gold medal in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Two years after he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Daly was voted one of the 10 greatest coaches of the NBA's first half-century in 1996.

The Twitterverse mourned the loss of the Hall of Famer:

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   CP_6 RIP to my favorite coach of my favorite team. Chuck Daly 09 May 2009 from Tweetie
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   Mr_WTF RIP Chuck Daly he made hating the Pistons fun 09 May 2009 from mobile web
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   ncklausnut Sorry to hear about Chuck Daly . My condolences. 09 May 2009 from mobile web
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   Kencourier Wow...Chuck Daly passed away...never liked the guy when he coached Detroit,but always something a little surreal when u get that kinda news. 09 May 2009 from web
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   JPaschke Mourning loss of Chuck Daly. Great man and coach. Father of NBA charter flights. Once admired a sport coat of mine , a real compliment. 09 May 2009 from TweetDeck
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   tenyjr whoa - just found out thru Twitter's trending topics that Detroit Pistons coach Chuck Daly has died 09 May 2009 from web
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   kuhvet RIP Chuck Daly. bad boys were one of my fav teams to watch growing up. 09 May 2009 from mobile web
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   JMcII We lost a great basketball mind, R.I.P. Chuck Daly 09 May 2009 from TwitterBerry

Basketball coach Chuck Daly dies Saturday morning at 78

Olympic torch relay scrapped

Per Sky News Australia, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to end the practice of international Olympic torch relays.

The Associated Press reports the decision was taken at an IOC meeting in Denver, after protests in several locations during the pre-Beijing Olympics torch relay last year.

Twitterers from Hawaii to New Zealand - and Olympic cities like Athens and Munich weigh in:

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   schwefl (Munich, Germany) no more runs for the olympic torch over the world, that might be the first good decision the ioc made since years. 27 Mar 2009 from TwitterFox
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   norock (Milton Keynes, England) Olympic Committee decide to stop doing torch relays after the China protests. Rather than being more careful who gets chosen to host. 27 Mar 2009 from EventBox
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   TravisDST (Hawaii, USA) Apparently the International Olympic Committee is banning torch relays because of the incidents in last year's. http://ow.ly/1wvI 27 Mar 2009 from web
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   stratosathens (Athens, Greece) No more international torch relay during the Olympic Games. It started with Athens and it ended with Beijing. #sportacccord 27 Mar 2009 from web
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   vanrose (Oamaru, New Zealand) Completely forgot that I told everyone I was going to take up a sport and compete in the London Olympic Games. Really must get onto that. 27 Mar 2009 from web

Olympic torch relay scrapped