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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. . . [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]