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Jim Sweeney
American basketball player

Jim Sweeney

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James "Jim" Sweeney was a 1980 recipient of the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the United States' top collegiate basketball player under 6'0" tall. He was the captain of the Boston College Eagles. He was nominated by Boston College (BC) as a Rhodes Scholar candidate. Raised in Trenton, New Jersey, he attended the Lawrenceville School before receiving an athletic scholarship to Boston College.

Sweeney testified as a witness in the 1978–79 Boston College basketball point shaving scandal in which members of organized crime schemed to control the outcomes of several games. Sweeney was neither charged nor offered immunity in exchange for his testimony. The Tampa Bay Times featured Sweeney as one of the "Top 10 most intriguing people of Tampa Bay in 2014", for their fellow resident having displayed "little fear of the mob and no bitterness about getting caught up in a wise-guy point-shaving scheme."

Following his 1980 graduation from BC, Sweeney played basketball briefly in Sweden. He returned to the U.S., married fellow BC classmate Maura (Haggerty) Sweeney in 1981, and spent the following years as a manufacturer's rep in the computer industry. While still in his forties, Sweeney and his wife closed their computer firm to launch New Vision Entertainment, a Florida-based company focused on the development and promotion of entertainment properties that positively impact culture.

Creating a trademarked sports personality named MIKE (for "microphone"), Sweeney launched a series of MIKE Sports Comic Books, and regularly blogs under the same pen name. Sweeney's creative sports writing and reflections on his Boston College basketball past were covered in Forbes magazine.

Sweeney continued to play basketball domestically and abroad through the masters basketball circuit. Sweeney and his wife have one daughter. The couple resides in Clearwater, Florida.

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