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September 23, 2025

Charley Rosen 1941-2025: Basketball Gypsy with a Genuine Soul

Charley Rosen, Touch of Grey

In a strange way, sitting down and talking to basketball coach-writer-music fan Charley Rosen led to my experimental experience of covering the 1990-91 Bulls for the Chicago Sun-Times.

I’ve always been appreciative of the shadows in minor league sports. Real life lives there. When the Rockford Lighting debuted in the 1986-87 season of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) I was at the MetroCentre in downtown Rockford.

The late Bulls great Norm Van Lier was the team’s head coach. Future Chicago radio guy Dan Bernstein was working the market. Chicago prep star Cazzie Russell [...]

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