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Out of print for more than 30 years, now available for the first time as an eBook, this is the controversial story of John Wooden's first 25 years and first 8 NCAA Championships as UCLA Head Basketball Coach. Notre Dame Coach Digger Phelps said, "I used this book as an inspiration for the biggest win of my career when we ended UCLA's all-time 88-game winning streak in 1974." Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach. Click the Book to read the players telling their stories in their own words. This is the book that UCLA Athletic Director J.D. Morgan tried to ban. Click the book to read the first chapter and for ordering information. |
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Coaching Stupidity by Tony Medley
Dallas beat Detroit today because of a
coach's stupidity, something that happens more often than not in
sport. Detroit was up by 6 with 2:32 to play. Dallas had no more
timeouts. Detroit had a 3rd & 8 at midfield.
Instead of a running play and punt, which would have run the clock down to the 2-minute warning, they threw a pass, which fell incomplete and stopped the clock with 2:28 left. Dallas got the ball and drove down the field, scoring the winning touchdown with less than 10 seconds left. Had Detroit just run the ball on third down and run the clock down, Dallas would not have been able to drive the field and score to win the game by 1. To run the clock in this situation is just basic common sense. Even so, as I said, ignoring common sense and doing the dumb thing happens all the time in sport. And they pay these guys millions of dollars. Not only that, the coaches eventually get fired, but other owners, who must be just as stupid as the coaches, hire them to coach their teams, even after they have already proven their incompetence and inability to reason. July 31, 2008
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