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G Tony Stockman (official thread)

Pro basketball: Tony Stockman leaves Canadian team
Filed by Rick Noland October 13th, 2011

MEDINA ? Tony Stockman is back in Medina, apparently retired from professional basketball.

The 2000 Medina High graduate spent just two days with the Halifax Rainmen of the newly formed National Basketball League of Canada before determining the situation wasn?t right for him.

?I went to one morning practice and the next day I went and talked to the coach,? Stockman said Wed-nesday. ?Everything was lies, even down to the ball we used.?

Stockman said on the first day of practice, two players suffered minor injuries and the team didn?t have a trainer. With a sprained ankle and pulled muscle, Stockman said the players were told they would have to pay for their own treatment if they sought it.

?My fears when I left were it was going to be a minor league,? the 6-foot-2 guard said. ?But I told my wife (Brittany), ?I?m going to go and see.? I was thinking it was going to be different, but it was minor league. I didn?t want to waste my time or their time.

?(Brittany) keeps telling me she told me so. She knew it was important to me that I go, but she didn?t have a good feeling about it from the start.?

Stockman quit his job at the Berea Children?s Home in order to go to Halifax, which is in Nova Scotia, and is unsure if he will get it back.

Regardless, he plans to devote more time to his family?s youth-oriented Stockman Basketball Club, where he will work with older brother Adrian.

?I think I might be done,? Stockman said of a pro career that took him to France, Israel, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. ?My last two experiences were bad ones, so that kind of helps (the decision).?

The 30-year-old Stockman said he was shorted $10,000 at the end of last season by his team in Brazil, leaving him fairly certain his professional playing days are over.

?I know that?s all part of the business, but having a family and being older, it?s not part of the business I want to deal with anymore,? he said.

http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com/2011/10/13/pro-basketball-tony-stockman-leaves-canadian-team/
 
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Tony Stockman will play in Mexico

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After the short and frustrating passage through Canada, the U.S. owner Tony Stockman, who played the last 2 NBBS by France and Assisi respectively, is going to play in Mexico.

http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...r-no-mexico.html&langpair=pt|en&en=pt&en=UTF8

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFFtMuAzpmw"]Tony Stockman Assis 2011 Highlight Film - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Stockman to coach Ohio Christian

Ohio Christian University in Circleville will announce former Ohio State guard Tony Stockman as its new basketball coach this afternoon, according to a school news release.

Stockman, who played two seasons at Ohio State after transferring from Clemson, graduated in 2005 and played professionally overseas until this year.

He takes over an Ohio Christian program that finished 27-10 this season and finished third in the National Christian College Athletic Association tournament.

Stockman, from Medina, shared the Ohio Mr. Basketball award in 2000 and played two seasons at Clemson before transferring to Ohio State in 2002. After sitting out a year, he played one season for former coach Jim O'Brien and one for current coach Thad Matta.

http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/blogs/hoops-and-scoops/2012/03/03-20-12-stockman-to-coach.html
 
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A reason for change
Following many medical setbacks to his oldest son, Tony Stockman turned hardship into hope.
By Bob Baptist
The Columbus Dispatch Thursday July 5, 2012

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Tom Dodge | DISPATCH
Former Ohio State basketball player Tony Stockman left, holding his son Tayden, 7, with sons Braysen, 5, center, Maddox, 3, right, and wife Brittany at Ohio Christian University in Circleville, where Tony is the new men?s basketball coach.

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Will Shilling | DISPATCH
In his first year at Ohio State, Stockman led the Buckeyes in scoring with a 13.6?point average.

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Eric Albrecht | DISPATCH
Ohio State coach Thad Matta says he admires the way his former player Tony Stockman put basketball aside for the sake of his family.

At the time, all Tony Stockman knew for sure was that he wasn?t in the starting lineup anymore.

He didn?t realize how much his life had changed during those few days in the winter of 2005 after his girlfriend, Brittany Keltz, gave birth to their first child during his second and final season as an Ohio State basketball player.

One night, he was scoring 17 points in a victory over Penn State. The next, he was with Keltz at Riverside Methodist Hospital as doctors induced labor so she could deliver a boy, Tayden, by Caesarean section at 3 a.m.

Later that day, he was on his way to Northwestern for another game, one he would not start because of new coach Thad Matta?s rule that a player who missed practice the day before a game does not start the game.

Stockman had missed two practices to be with Brittany. He never started another game for the Buckeyes. Je?Kel Foster took his job and ran with it.

?It?s so funny to look back now and go like, ?I can?t believe there was that much stuff going on,? ? said Brittany, now Tony?s wife of three years. ?It was crazy. But everyone else seemed to notice the craziness except us. We were like, ?Oh, it?s OK.? We just had to be as positive as we could.?

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/07/05/a-reason-for-change.html
 
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