Wooden, who made UCLA a household acronym, died at age 99 on Friday, and for certain, we live in a lesser world without him. “We lost the best coach ever,” the 92-year-old Harshman said.

He is the greatest coach in college basketball history, the so-called “Wizard of Westwood,” the man who won 10 NCAA titles in a 12-year span during his tenure as UCLA coach from 1948 to 1975 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Wooden, college basketball’s gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ...

There were no internet sites, no 24/7 coverage, just championship after championship. John Wooden, the 'Wizard of Westwood', dead at age 99.

The story of how Wooden, who was hospitalized early today in Los Angeles and listed in "grave condition" at age 99, ended up at UCLA is an interesting one. Coach Wooden and his wife, Nellie ...

But Wooden also was knowledgeable and flexible enough to win without a dominant center. His first national champion, featuring guards Walt Hazzard and Gail Goodrich, had no starter taller than 6 ...

Wooden grew up in basketball-crazed Martinsville, Ind., a town of 4,800 people whose high school basketball gym housed 5,200. He was an All-American at Purdue University and the National Player of ...