FILE - In this June 16, 2003, file photo, Gene Bartow, former basketball coach at Memphis State, UCLA and UBA, answers a question at a news conference in San Diego, where he was named the interim athletic director of San Diego State. Bartow has been diagnosed with stomach cancer. The 78-year-old Bartow, currently the president of the company that owns the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies, will begin outpatient treatment at the Kirklin Clinic in Birmingham next week, UAB said Wednesday, April 15, 2009. (AP Photo/File)