define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); obituary – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:11:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Coach Wooden Farewell: “One in a Billion” http://rushthecourt.net/2010/06/26/coach-wooden-farewell-one-in-a-billion/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/06/26/coach-wooden-farewell-one-in-a-billion/#respond Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:07:38 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=22356

Former UCLA head coach and legend  John Wooden was honored at Pauley Pavilion on Saturday afternoon for nearly 100 years of life that impacted tens of thousands of people, both sports fans and otherwise.  Despite direct competition with the US-Ghana World Cup match and the Bruin baseball team’s victory to get to the championship of the College World Series, approximately 4,000 people including Jerry West,  Marques Johnson, Derek Jeter, Al Michaels, Bill Walton, Joe Torre, Antonio Villaraigosa, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and many others paid tribute to the man’s life and teachings during a 90-minute ceremony.  Wooden died nearly a [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2010/06/26/coach-wooden-farewell-one-in-a-billion/feed/ 0