The Ides of March is fast approaching, which signals that we are fully into that madness called college basketball and its NCAA Championship competition. Our media pundits are fully engaged in identifying who is in and who is out, and of course, who is on the œinfamous bubble. Its one of the very few occupations [...]
The death of UCLA basketball coaching icon, John Wooden has brought about an interesting phenomenon; his critics have all but disappeared. And, believe me when I say that when his UCLA teams were beating everyone in sight he had many. A common referral was to œSt. John. He didnt socialize with the coaches, they said. [...]
For the next appropriate piece of time everyone that is so moved will be doing their version of honoring the life of UCLA legend basketball coach, John Wooden. I figure I might as well jump right in. I know John Wooden best by the people he coached and my experiences with them. I first met [...]
March Madness comes to a screeching halt in, of all things, April. This weekend in Indianapolis, IN four teams will take their best shot at winning the NCAA Championship. One team will do so on what amounts to a home court. That would be Butler University, one of the two 5th seeds to make it [...]
We are in the time of year that has come to be known as œMarch Madness. This is a far cry from the first NCAA tournament in 1937 won by the œTall Firs of the University of Oregon. It was played on a college campus with very limited media coverage. Even my first Final Four [...]