He was going to pick a university with a great business school and a great basketball program. He visited Georgetown, where he has a lot of extended family in the D.C. area. He felt he fit in hanging out with the guys. Not the black guys or the white...

Pegged as being a cross between Withnail and I and Crime and Punishment, John Thompson’s new play feels more like a tepid imitation of both. It’s 1916 on the eve of revolution in Petrograd. Two unlikely friends (a poet and a revolutionary) are huddling...

Then he sat in the bathtub until help came, so he wouldn't drip blood on the new carpet. Surgeons reattached his arms and his story became international news. Twenty years later, Thompson still gets noticed as “the kid in the bathtub.” That's not John...

He could get under another team's skin in a matter of seconds. He combined great foot speed, quickness and toughness that defined Georgetown's defensive philosophy and also contributed to the Big East's reputation as tough, defensive league. Mike...

Thompson's retirement takes effect today, Feb. 15. Thompson submitted a letter of retirement to the borough on Jan. 17 in which he requested the council waive his contractual requirement to give 90 days' notice and allow him to retire by Feb. 7, two...

When my father died, only one group offered more heart-felt consolation than black female teenagers. The most emotional condolences came from my black male students and basketball buddies. Almost all of them volunteered their feelings about intense...