The spray-painted notice went up in September on a North Lawrence garage door: Wizard of Wood. On nice days since then, passersby may have spied the new tenant at Harold and Jo’s Antiques, chipping ...

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 died. He was 99.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to a good old-fashioned Upper Midwest blizzard in 1948, O.B. Cowles - not John Wooden - was named the men's basketball coach at the University of Minnesota. Yes, the same John Wooden who ended ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...