Legendary Coach Wooden Dies At Age 99

Not only was Wooden one of basketball’s most winningest coaches, he was one of the greatest coaches and human beings the sport has ever seen: “John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach who became an icon of American sports while guiding the Bruins to an unprecedented 10 national championships in the 1960s and ’70s and remained in the spotlight during retirement with his “Pyramid of Success” motivational program, has died. He was 99. Wooden died Friday evening of natural causes at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the university announced. He had been hospitalized since last week for dehydration.”