Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. But in Indiana, Hackman’s role as small town basketball coach Norman Dale in the 1986 movie “Hoosiers” still resonates ...

The soul is elsewhere. That’s how it felt Thursday night when I sat and watched Gene Hackman play Coach Norman Dale one more ...

A small-town high school basketball movie set in the 1950s still speaks to some of us, and the late Gene Hackman helped bring ...

Gene Hackman, best known for playing coach Norman Dale in the movie "Hoosiers," died on Wednesday, according to the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office, New Mexico.

Declared as one of the greatest sports movies in film history, the 1986 flick Hoosiers starred the late Gene Hackman as high school basketball Coach Norman Dale. The famed film follows the story of ...

But he was Norman Dale, the troubled basketball coach looking for a new start in tiny Hickory, Indiana. “Hoosiers” is based on a true story, but the movie version became the legend.

And of course, there is Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, arguably the greatest coach in sports movie history. Gene Hackman as Norman Dale during the filming of “Hoosiers” at Butler’s Hinkle ...

WILKES-BARRE — With this week’s death of legendary actor Gene Hackman, one of his roles will forever be embedded in my soul — that of Coach Norman Dale in “Hoosiers.” The first time I ...

Gene Hackman endeared himself to Hoosiers as coach Norman Dale in the move "Hoosiers". His acting colleagues and producer of the movie share memories of Hackman, who died Thursday. After reading ...

The soul is elsewhere. That’s how it felt Thursday night when I sat and watched Gene Hackman play Coach Norman Dale one more time in “Hoosiers.” The world learned about the mysterious death ...