Thanks a lot." Jerry Tarkanian and Larry Chin, two men whose legacies will forever include a plain white towel. Instead of a staggered start at East Lake, the Tour Championship will look like ...

Sitting on the Rebels bench, former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian bites on a towel. Photo by: Sun File Photo The most iconic courtside photo of UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian ...

FRESNO, Calif. -- Jerry Tarkanian retired from coaching college basketball Friday, tossing in his chewed-up towel after a career that mixed success with scandal over four decades. The 71-year-old ...

"We didn't use the same towels all the time or anything like ... "The NCAA regrets the 26-year ongoing dispute with Jerry Tarkanian and looks forward to putting this matter to rest," NCAA ...

Weary of turmoil--and worn out by more losses this season than anyone could have expected--Jerry Tarkanian retired as Fresno State’s basketball coach Friday at 71. “You know what is so painful ...

towel in mouth, next to an open seat, it was revealed Wednesday. UNLV held a press conference at the Richard Tam Alumni Center on campus to announce details of the Jerry Tarkanian Legacy Project.

Famous for his ever-present white towel and what seemed to be a perpetually worried expression, former college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian has died. He had been hospitalized in Las Vegas ...

A look back at ex-UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian on his birthday — PHOTOS Jerry Tarkanian, best known as the towel-chomping college basketball coach who guided UNLV to national prominence ...

Jerry Tarkanian won 729 college basketball games, the most famous of them at McNichols Arena in Denver in 1990, when he chewed his towel and his kids from UNLV all but chewed on poor Bobby Hurley ...

Jerry Tarkanian has essentially gotten the same ... Lancaster before landing at Redlands High — where the legend of the towel-chomp was born. Tarkanian said it all started at a 1960 league ...

Jerry Tarkanian, as the story goes, started chewing towels way back in 1956 while coaching a high school basketball game in a suffocating gym in Southern California. Simply put, his mouth was dry ...

Jerry Tarkanian died Wednesday at age 84 ... packing Gucci Row with celebrities as Tark sat nervously sucking on a towel, an old habit he could never break. At their best they were the best ...