Passing: John Wooden

John Wooden, a staid Midwesterner who migrated to U.C.L.A. and became college basketball’s most successful coach, earning the nickname the Wizard of Westwood and an enduring place in sports history, died Friday June 4, 2010 at Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since May 26. He was 99.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05wooden.html?scp=1&sq=john%20wooden&st=cse

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127463928

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05wizard.html?ref=ncaabasketball