Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
John Wooden
Born: October 14, 1910
Died: June 4, 2010 (aged 99)
Bio: John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood," as head coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including an unprecedented seven in a row.
Known for:
- They call me coach (1972)
- Inch and Miles (2003)
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