Iconic Sports Figure John Wooden Passes Away

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brock
– June 6, 2010Posted in: Uncategorized
Image by Brock N. Meeks via Flickr John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach who became an icon of American sports while guiding the Bruins to an unprecedented 10 national championships...

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Image by Brock N. Meeks via Flickr

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.

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Brock is the former Chief Washington Correspondent for MSNBC; he is the founder/creator of CyberWire Dispatch, the Net's pioneering online journalistic news service. Most recently he was the Director of Communications for the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit, Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to keep the Internet open, innovative and free. The views expressed here are his and his alone and do not reflect the opinions, attitudes or policy positions of his employer.