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Carl Kremer: The Coach You Want Your Child to Play For

Don McNay | Posted 04.30.2012

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Don McNay

Kremer projects Midwestern values of focusing on the team instead of the individual. He beats a cupcake team by fifty points, but praises the opponent's "hustle" or "fighting spirit." I've tried to get him to trash talk, but Carl is not going to let that happen.

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100 Best Sports Quotes

Bleacher Report | Posted 12.26.2011

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While sports are known for producing the most remarkable athletes, colorful characters, influential leaders and memorable heroes; its fans have only s...

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Parenting Lessons From a Deceased Basketball Coach

Mark Redmond | Posted 11.17.2011

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Mark Redmond

I read the book about John Wooden and time after time thought, "If only parents could raise their kids this way, we wouldn't have the problems we do."

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Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tallulah Morehead

Happy New Year, darlings. All of you reading this piece have something in common: you survived 2010. Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.

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UCLA To Honor John Wooden At Graduation Ceremony

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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June 14, 2010, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Valeriani

President Obama makes fourth trip to oil-slicked Gulf area, apparently reacting to criticism about not being involved enough.

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John Wooden -- Beyond Categorization

Nelson Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nelson Davis

Now that Wooden's body has died, an untold number of us recognize his unique spirit that defied the confines of being labeled as just a basketball coach.

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Wooden's Creed

Mary Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mary Daily

Unlike some preening coaches, John Wooden never wanted to attract attention. He hated being called the Wizard of Westwood.

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John Wooden: How Poetry Shaped My Career

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Great Scorer John Wooden Poetry Magazine At UCLA, where I was head coach of men's varsity basketball for twenty-seven years, poetry was one of my...

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Len Berman

Colorado pitching phenom Ubaldo Jimenez earned his 11th win against Atlanta, but he gave up 2 whole runs. So his minuscule earned run average zoomed all the way up to 0.93.

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John Wooden Dies: Five Great Books By The Legendary Basketball Coach

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Famed basketball coach John Wooden died Friday evening at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, the hospital announced. The 99 year-old had been hospital...

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John Wooden (1910-2010): My 2003 Q&A With Him

Dave Hollander | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Hollander

"I never liked the dunk. I think it's primarily showmanship. [But] things are based on money, unfortunately. And you've got to get the spectators to come. And they like things like that."

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Remembering Coach Wooden

Ken Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ken Levine

That was John Wooden: humble, accessible, without any pretense. Everywhere you turn today you will find a tribute to this extraordinary man. They're all going to make him sound too good to be true, but in fact he was. No sense in just echoing them.

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Basketball Legend John Wooden Dies

AP | BETH HARRIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — John Wooden, college basketball's gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA ...

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John Wooden Hospitalized, In 'Grave' Condition: Report

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Former UCLA basketball coach and Hall of Famer John Wooden was reportedly hospitalized in Los Angeles on Thursday night. Los Ange...

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Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Geoffrey Dunn

I was a little leery reading Palin's book and wondering if she really had read Aristotle and Plato. Somehow I didn't think so. But I thought, maybe, just maybe, she might have read Sir John. Apparently not.

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Sarah Palin, John Wooden, Art Linkletter and John Wooden Legs

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Geoffrey Dunn

My point wasn't about who quotes whom properly, it was about all the shameful mistakes, lies and mis-attributions that appear in Going Rogue. The book is an insult to everything John Wooden stood and stands for.

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