John Wooden

Wendy Greuel Seeks To Reboot Campaign, Acknowledging Her Union Backing Has Defined Mayor's Race

Wendy Greuel this morning launched a reboot of her campaign for mayor of L.A., giving a speech at UCLA that attacked the media and rival Eric Garcetti, while including a tacit admission that she has struggled to define her candidacy.Greuel acknowledged up front that her campaign has been overshadowe ... More >>

Gavin Smith's Disappearance Now A Homicide Case After His Mercedes Is Found

Cops today say they found the Mercedes of missing Fox movie executive Gavin Smith. The discovery means that this is officially a homicide case, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced. Smith, a 6 feet, 6 inch member of John Wooden's championship UCLA basketball team from 1975, worked at Fox ... More >>

Gavin Smith, Missing Fox Executive, Gets Twitter Campaign From Son Evan, USC Basketball Player

Updated at the bottom with some strange details about the last time he was seen. First posted at 7:05 a.m. Monday. Gavin Smith, a longtime Fox movie distribution exec, has been missing for nearly a week. His son, USC basketball forward Evan Smith, has taken to Twitter to publicize the plight of hi ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

Lakers: Five Reasons L.A.'s NBA Dynasty Isn't Over Yet

The best player in the NBA is still with us.​The Lakers flamed out like Charlie Sheen in rehab -- in spectacular, unprecedented fashion (via a sweep the likes of which coach Phil Jackson has never seen). And now Phil Jackson says he's coached his last NBA game and Kobe Bryant is talking about ... More >>

John Wooden Memorial Crops Up At UCLA

Seth Odell / UCLA​A makeshift memorial to John Wooden has cropped up on the campus of UCLA. The campus' iconic Bruin bear sculpture in Bruin Plaza was adorned over the weekend with flowers, wreaths and other tributes to the legendary UCLA basketball coach, who died Friday at the age of 99. The ... More >>

UCLA Says John Wooden 'Resting Comfortably'

​UCLA on Friday released an "update" on campus basketball legend John Wooden, but it didn't contain much information. It states: "Coach John Wooden is resting comfortably at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and spent a peaceful night. He was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday, May 26, due ... More >>

UCLA Basketball Legend John Wooden Dies

UCLA​Legendary former UCLA basketball coach died of natural causes at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center Friday at 6:45 p.m., the university announced. He was 99. He passed as students on campus were preparing to undertake a Friday night rally in his honor. The man who led the university to te ... More >>

UCLA Legend John Wooden Hospitalized In 'Grave' Condition

​Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden was hospitalized Thursday in "grave" condition according to KCAL 9 News. The 99-year-old "Wizard of Westwood" was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to the station. Wooden helped the UCLA squad win 10 NCAA championships in the 1960s ... More >>

Alpha Coach

Phil Jackson is back in control — and dreaming of a point guard named Oprah

The Reunion Sessions

Booster Shots

Then and now

Character of the Happy Warrior

The education of Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen

Stud on the Tracks

The freewheeling Steve Malkmus, when hard, is about 8 inches

The Difference Between the Democrats

Al is tight. Bill is loose. That’s it.