LOS ANGELES — John Wooden, college basketball’s gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, has ...

Marv Harshman remembers when coaches used to misread John Wooden. They thought he was stuck up. Unlike the custom of those times, Wooden would never take opposing coaches out for drinks when they came ...

I always say our most vivid impressions are most times our first impressions, and when it comes to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, he made quite a first impression. I knew I wanted to be ...

John Wooden hated being called the “Wizard of Westwood,” and no wonder. It would offend most men of dignity to be reduced to a cliché. And what dignity he had. Wooden was an exemplar of not just ...

ENCINO, Calif. – There is a museum quality to John Wooden’s first-floor condo in a gated community here. The living room, hallway and den are decked with pictures from his 10 national championship ...

We gathered a panel of, in most cases, veteran sportswriters who knew Wooden, and wrote about Wooden at some length, to talk about his legacy and just to bat around memories of a longtime San Fernando ...

* Legendary basketball coach John Wooden, who passed away Friday, was not what you would have expected such a successful and famous person to be like. Rather than being loud and arrogant, he was ...

The following feature ran in The Times-Picayune on Friday, April 2, 1993. Seven straight NCAA championships and 10 in 12 years. That's the bottom line on retired UCLA coach John Wooden. But his impact ...

LOS ANGELES -- John Wooden, college basketball's gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, has ...

John Wooden hated being called the “Wizard of Westwood,” and no wonder. It would offend most men of dignity to be reduced to a cliché. And what dignity he had. Wooden was an exemplar of not just ...