The White Sox Win and more[Sports Week]
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Okay, enough with the bad and sad stories. The NCAA named former UCLA men's basketball coach John Wooden and former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh as co-winners of its Gerald R. Ford Award on Monday. The NCAA presents this award to people who provide significant leadership in advocating intercollegiate athletics on a continuous basis. They will receive their awards January 7, at the NCAA convention in Indianapolis. ”Both Senator Bayh's creation of Title IX and Coach Wooden's unprecedented coaching accomplishments based on sound principles of scholarship and citizenship have positively impacted the college sports world,” NCAA President Myles Brand said. I’ll save my rant on Title IX for another column. Coach Wooden of course is the greatest coach in pro sports. He led the Bruins to a record ten national championships during the 1960s and 1970s, including seven straight from 1967-73. He is also renown for his philosophy ‘The Pyramid of Success.’ In addition, he is a three-time All-American at Purdue and is one of only two men in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach. Wooden coached four unbeaten teams at UCLA and set records for most Final Four appearances (12), most consecutive Final Fours (9), and most Final Four wins (21). From 1971-73, his teams won 88 straight games. My Awards Moron of the Week – Fisher DeBarry Good Guy of the Week – Coach John Wooden Player of the Week – Juan Urbie - winning the World Series Game of the Week – Game 4 of the World Series. |
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