Rick Reilly remembers John Wooden

(from "A Paragon rising above the Madness," one of the best sports articles ever written)

"So, sometimes, when the Madness of March gets to be too much - too many players trying to make Sports Center, too few players trying to make assists, too many coaches trying to be homeys, too few coaches willing to be mentors, too many freshmen with out-of-wedlock kids, too few freshmen willing to stay in school long enough to become men - I like to go see Coach Wooden. . . . There has never been a coach like Wooden, quiet as an April snow and square as game of checkers; loyal to one woman, one school, one way; walking around campus in his sensible shoes and Jimmy Stewart morals."


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