Jim Calhoun: University Connecticut basketball coach in hospital

by JeffHuang | June 13, 2009 at 05:32 pm

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University of Connecticut basketball head coach Jim Calhoun has been hospitalized after collapsing on a 50-mile charity bicycle ride where he fell and broke five ribs.

Calhoun was taken to the UConn Health center in Farmington where he will be held overnight for observations. He supposedly hit a pothole and fell with 16 miles to go, but soon after he crossed the finish line, he collapsed and was taken to hospital.

At the hospital, Calhoun was told he had broken ribs during the fall. The hospital said he fainted because of dehydration and trauma from the fall.

Calhoun, 67, missed the Huskies' first NCAA tournament game in March after being hospitalized for dehydration. Connecticut lost to Michigan State in the Final Four.