Letters to Sports: Cori Close has built her own pyramid of success
Readers of the L.A. Times Sports section offer their opinions and thoughts on UCLA women's basketball coach Cori Close and men's coach Mick Cronin. Source…
Cori Close’s connection to John Wooden transcends wins and titles
She was a kid. He was a legend.She was an assistant coach in her first college job. He was the greatest coach in college basketball…
After winning one title since John Wooden, is UCLA a blue blood?
Grainy game footage and yellowed newspaper clippings confer UCLA’s standing as college basketball royalty, the team’s status as a blue blood rooted in the success…
Bill Walton had a different view of personal success and heroes
By every measure, Bill Walton was enormously successful, among the most decorated players in the history of college basketball and the NBA. But Walton had…
Bill Walton’s kindness and wonderful wackiness was a true gift
Fittingly, my favorite Bill Walton encounter involved only his voice. It was in October 2000, the day before John Wooden’s 90th birthday. I was visiting…
Bill Walton and the Grateful Dead: How the band shaped his life
Bill Walton was a proud Deadhead. The basketball great, who died Monday at age 71 following a prolonged cancer battle, was famously a huge fan…
Inside UCLA diner where John Wooden, Jerry West forged history
Jerry West had always been a taut rope emotionally, the aftershock of growing up with a physically abusive father in a West Virginia home so…