FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES….
November 18, 2008
Pete Newell, Basketball Coach and Innovator, Dies at 93
By BRUCE WEBER
Pete Newell, one of the most influential coaches in the history of basketball, who won a national championship at the University of California in 1959, an Olympic championship in 1960, and whose camp became a required seminar in low-post […]
FROM THE LA TIMES…..
OBITUARY
Pete Newell dies at 93; Hall of Fame basketball coach guided Cal to 1959 NCAA title
Newell, who retired from coaching at 44, brought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Lakers in 1975 as the team’s general manager.
By Robyn Norwood
3:26 PM PST, November 17, 2008
Pete Newell, who coached UC Berkeley to the 1959 National Collegiate […]
FROM THE BLOGGER IN THE OBSERVER…….(THE GUARDIAN), AGAIN, FOR ALL THOSE HEALTH 239 STUDENTS WAY BACK WHEN….
Mary Warnock
guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 16 2008 00.01 GMT
The Observer, Sunday November 16 2008
Kingsley Amis once said, truly: ‘Nice things are nicer than nasty things.’ On this hangs all morality. It is because we know that some things are intolerable, […]
FROM THE AP, AND THE REDOUBTABLE BOB ROSS WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP HIM IN GAOL……
430-pound convict released early due to obesity
Thursday, November 13, 2008
(11-13) 11:27 PST TORONTO, Canada (AP) –
An obese inmate who goes by the nickname “Big Mike” has been granted early parole because a Canadian prison could not accommodate his 430-pound […]
JUST SAW THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT HAS LOST A BILLION DOLLARS. AND THIS IS THE (VERY) SHORT LIST. THE TIME HAS COME TO LET THE DROWNING CONTINUE, AND THEN BEGIN AGAIN, WITH NO WALL STREET MARKER, RATHER, A BARTER, LOCALLY ORIENTED ECONOMY WHERE WE DO NOT HAVE TO FACE BANKSTERS, GREEDY […]
ADAM ROSE, WRITING IN “ALL THINGS TROJAN,” MAKES SOME VERY IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT THE CLOUDED FUTURE OF UNIVERSITY SPORT, AND PROFESSIONAL SPORT TOO, AS THE OWNERS WILL HAVE FAR LESS MONEY TO THROW AROUND……
Economic cloud hangs over college athletics
Three years ago, Oklahoma State’s football team wasn’t bowl eligible. Then oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens donated […]
FOR ALL MY STUDENTS EVERYWHERE, THE CONSPIRATORIAL THRUST OF THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN, ASSESSED BY JOE GAROFOLI OF THE SF GATE….
The untruths live on after election
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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(11-09) 04:00 PST Phoenix –
Even after hearing John McCain’s election night concession speech - described as gracious by many inside and […]