Frank Thomas

Wooden Notable Sports Figures
John Wooden
(With Jack Tobin) They Call Me Coach: The Fascinating
First-person Story of a Legendary Basketball
Coach. Revised edition, Waco, TX: Word Books,
1985.
(With Steve Jamison) Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations
and Reflections on and off the Court, Lincolnwood,
IL: Contemporary Books, 1997.
Practical Modern Basketball, new introduction by Bill
Walton, 3rd. ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.
(With Andrew Hill) Be Quick, but Don’t Hurry—Learning
Success from the Teachings of a Lifetime, New
York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Quotable Wooden, Nashville: TowleHouse, 2002.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Books
Biro, Brian D. Beyond Success: The 15 Secrets to Effective
Leadership and Life Based on Legendary Coach
John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, New York:
Berkley, 2001.
Chapin, Dwight and Jeff Prugh.The Wizard of Westwood;
Coach John Wooden and his UCLA Bruins,
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Heisler, Mark. They Shoot Coaches, Don’t They?:
UCLA and the NCAA since John Wooden, New York:
Macmillan, 1996.
1800
Periodicals
Reilly, Rick. “A Paragon Rising Above the Madness.”
Sports Illustrated (March 20, 2000): 136.
Other
“10 Burning Questions for John Wooden,” ESPN.com,
http://espn.go.com/page2, (January 4, 2003).
Basketball Hall of Fame, John Wooden Biography,
http://www.hoophall.com/halloffame/Wooden.htm,
(January 4, 2003).
Greenwald, David. “Happy Birthday, Coach John
Wooden,” UCLA Today, http://www.today.ucla.
edu,(January 4, 2003).
“John Wooden, Coaching Legend,” Reference.com,
http://www.reference.com, (January 4, 2003).
“John Wooden Fact Sheet,” Sports America, Inc.,
www.sportsamericainc.com, (January 4, 2003).
Walton, Bill. “John Wooden, Simply the Best,” UCLA
Today, http://www.today.ucla.edu, (January 4, 2003).
Wilkinson, Jack. “Visiting the Wizard of Westwood,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.access
atlanta.com, (January 20, 2002).
“Wooden’s Influence Seen in Tradition Field,” Sporting
News, http://www.sportingnews.com/cbasketball,
(November 29, 2002).
Tiger Woods
1975-
American golfer
Sketch by Paul Burton
Tiger Woods may prove to be the best professional
golfer in history. Although he is not yet thirty, he is
already well on track to break Jack Nicklaus’s record of
eighteen career victories in professional majors. In a
sport where victory is often decided by only one or two
strokes, Woods has had several double-digit wins. Because
of his domination of the game, and perhaps also
because he is a young minority in a sport that had previously
featured mostly white, middle-aged stars, Woods
has achieved a popularity that extends far beyond typical
golf fans.
A Golfing Toddler
Woods has been playing golf since he could walk, and
studying the game even longer. His father, Earl Woods, a
retired Army officer, took up golf only a year before
Woods was born, but he quickly fell in love with the
sport. Earl set up a miniature driving range in his garage