If I could come back in a second life, I’d be a high school or college basketball coach. First off, I love basketball, and secondly, few can have a greater influence on young people than a coach, or ...

John Wooden was a young high school teacher and coach in the 1930s when he first wrote his personal definition of success, searching for a way to assure his students — and their parents — they could ...

At the age of 96, living in Encino, Calif., and making 20 to 30 speeches a year, former UCLA coach John Wooden still keeps in touch with more players than he could name in one breath, including Bill ...

SOUTH BEND — Graffiti mars the walls, and the air vibrates from the pounding of demolition inside the gym of the old YMCA at 1201 Northside Blvd. Gaping holes open to the outdoors, where heavy ...