An extraordinary man

I was at UCLA during the Wooden years. Two major memories. UCLA is a hilly campus with several stairs of considerable length to navigate as you move around campus. The basketball team used to run up the long flight of stairs up to the main level of campus. I'd see them as I walked to my car in the afternoon. Up the stairs, up the stairs. No wonder they were in such good shape.

Pauley Pavillion was dedicated while I was there. A game for entertainment, the UCLA varsity champs against the new freshmen team (had their own team then). The freshmen won! Their center was Lew Alcindor, later Jabbar. UCLA freshmen, the best team in the nation that year.

clipped from sportsillustrated.cnn.com LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden has been hospitalized for treatment of a possible recurrence of diverticulitis. Daughter Nancy Muehlhausen said the 96-year-old Hall of Fame coach was admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital Sunday because of bleeding in the colon. "He's absolutely doing fine," Muehlhausen said Monday. "He's laughing and cracking jokes. He looks good."