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| OBITUARY: James Wright |
Services will be noon Wednesday at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, 1329 Avenue G in Birmingham.
Coach Wright died last Wednesday at home. He was 46.
The popular coach was in his fourth year as an assistant coach with the Bulldogs.
He came to The Hill from the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Before that, he was an assistant at the University of West Alabama where then-Athletic Director E.J. Brophy nicknamed him "The Recruiting Machine."
Wright also served as the coach, president and general manager of the AAU basketball team Rise & Shine from 1993-2004.
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