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Prayers For The Captain
Barnes2JJ already fanshotted this which we promoted on the home page. Still this deserves another stand along post to ensure that Big Fella has the total attention and prayers from the entire Bruins Nation. If you haven't read by now, AP reported today Kareem is battling "a rare form of...
Happy 99th Coach
Well we don't need Fox 71 to remind everyone about this birthday in Bruins Nation. Coach John R Wooden is turning 99 years young next week (on October 14th). As Coach celebrates another birthday join me in wishing your best to the Greatest Coach of All Time. There is a special website up at...
A Little Walk Down Memory Lane: UCLA's Amazing Run In The 1980 NCAA Tournament
Erkki Corpuz who I think is up there as one of the best sports photographers in the country, was kind enough to pass on some amazing pictures taken by another Bruin fan - Frank Leone - capturing some wonderful memories of the 1980 UCLA basketball team. Frank graciously allowed us to share those...
[UPDATED] The Greatest Of All Time: Coach John Wooden
Gen2Bruin1987 is already on the story but obviously it deserves lot more than just a fanshot in this part of the internets. To no one's surprises, the Sporting News voted Coach Wooden as the greatest ever in their list of 50 greatest coaches: Headlining the new issue of Sporting News Magazine: our...
Ed O'Bannon: An All American All Over Again
Leave it to the Trojan LA Times to publish baseless garbage letter smearing one of the greatest Bruins of all time. I was just as appalled as Barnes2JJ when I read the letter in the LA Times yesterday by some guy from New Port Beach attacking Ed O based on lies. Of course what the LA Times...
Candid Camera: Bruin Alums (King) Ed & Charles O'Bannon With Kris Johnson
tasser10 fanshotted this already. Still this is worthy of frontpage love. Looks like Eddie O and Chuck were back together for a hilarious (and kind of awkward) interview by their former team-mate anoter Bruin alum - Kris Johnson - for a website called Jerseychaser.com: *NEW* Ed and...
Bruin Legend Ed O'Bannon Set To Return To Basketball As A High School Head Coach
So on Monday we talked about how Bruin legend Ed O'Bannon is making all of us proud by shining in real life. Ed O in a long story published in Washington Post talked about manning up and walking away the daily grind of a faltering professional basketball career so that he could be together with his...
Update On One Of The Kings Of Westwood: Ed O'Bannon SHINING In Real Life
We just had an awesome graduation weekend in Westwood (and there was the winning of banner number 15). If you want to get a sense of how it all went read some of our posts and fanshots from the weekend here, here, and here. Coach Howland didn't hide his enthusiasm celebrating the graduation of JS,...












