Since Jim wrote a nice piece on the late Tony Barone, a Duke player of the Bubas era, we thought we’d add this to the mix: it’s his induction to the Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame speech.
It starts off as a sort of standard speech of that sort, thanking everyone and expressing how much he appreciated what he experienced at Creighton.
Not to diminish that, but what comes after is quite moving.
The video is from 2015, just eight years after the picture that accompanies this article. As you’ll see, he looks much older and as you’ll come to understand, he knows that he has cancer and it has clearly taken a toll on him.