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.

Dedication (0/10)

by Tony Medley

In 93 excruciating minutes, this asks and answers the question, “Can an intelligent, educated, beautiful young woman, Lucy Riley (Mandy Moore), fall in love with a foul-talking, neurotic, obsessive-compulsive writer, Henry Roth (Billy Crudup)?”

 First time director Justin Theroux, an actor, and writer David Bromberg present a story that is filled with Hollywood values. Which are, to wit, if two people sleep with one another they must be in love! Because that’s the only thing Lucy and Henry have in common, sex. He is a good-looking guy (hey, he’s a Hollywood star; whom would you expect, Quasimodo?), but that’s all he has going for him. Lucy has been promised a $200,000 bonus by publisher Arthur Planck (Bob Balaban) if she can get Henry to complete his illustrated book in two weeks.

After that happens, fall in love they do, for reasons that are impossible to determine, unless you surrender to the Hollywood dictum mentioned above. Theroux and Bromberg don’t take the trouble to try to show that they have something in common (except that they both work for the same publisher). Unfortunately, we have to watch it for 93 minutes, which consist of some of the most boring dialogue ever written.

Mandy Moore is a good actress. She could give Sean Penn some acting lessons because she can cry tears on cue. And Sean got an Oscar®. Of course, Mandy is a clean-cut young woman with pretty good morals and values. That doesn’t hold much sway in Hollywood. Even though she is a good actress, she is going to have to learn how to read scripts and pick her parts better. Her last two films have been the most recent Robin Williams debacle, “License to Wed,” and the miserable Diane Keaton vehicle, “Because I Said So,” both of which will be high on my list of the year’s worst films. They will be right below this turkey.

How does boring stuff like this get financing?

August 20, 2007