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 […]
BRUCE JENKINS IN THE SF CHRONICLE
Great coach, Great man
Bruce Jenkins, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 17, 2008
(11-17) 14:33 PST — I sat across from John Wooden at his San Fernando Valley apartment in the summer of 1990, delivering questions about the man he could not beat. An eternity had passed, more than 30 years, but the […]
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, […]
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 […]
FROM THE NY TIMES….THINK AGAIN ABOUT THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM….
November 2, 2008
PHYS ED
Stretching: The Truth
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
WHEN DUANE KNUDSON, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching their toes. . . . ” He sighs. “It’s […]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, IT’S NATHAN LEE…..
October 29, 2008
Immigrant Hoop Dreams
By NATHAN LEE
For those who grew up thinking basketball was the sport of Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, it may come as a surprise to learn that it all began with people like Nat Holman, Sammy Kaplan and Red Auerbach. There hasn’t […]
Fitness buffs fight back after being muscled out of Santa Monica neighborhood
Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times
Complaints from residents along tony Adelaide Drive about the medians being overrun with exercisers led to a crackdown by police. The city will hold a public meeting on the issue tonight.
By Martha Groves
October 30, 2008
Doing a few sit-ups […]