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.

Maybe Vince Lombardi was more majestic and Red Auerbach a more colorful figure. Perhaps Bear Bryant was more revered. But John Wooden, the former UCLA basketball coach who died at 99 in Los Angeles on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...