C.M. Newton impacted sports by his integration of the basketball teams he coached. Mary Ann Gerth, Louisville Courier Journal
Sad news Monday as we learned that former University of Kentucky player and athletic director and basketball icon C.M. Newton had died at age 88.
Newton was one-of-a-kind in many ways, and his career in the sport touched many, many people and places.
That has already been evident from the wide-ranging reaction in statements and on social media to Monday night's news.
u25ba Former Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich: “My deepest condolences go to the Newton family tonight.