One of my big passions is sports, though I don’t talk about it much on this blog. John Wooden died Friday night at the age of 99. He was an amazing coach and an amazing man. One person said Wooden was “more like a Methodist minister than a basketball coach.” ESPN put together a tribute of former players, coaches, and announcers who know him well.
Wooden led UCLA to 7 straight National Championships, an 88 game winning streak, 38 straight NCAA tournament wins, and 10 NCAA championships in 12 years, before retiring in 1975. He was known as the Wizard of Westwood (a nickname he didn’t like.) Here are some excerpts from from that piece. (I’m not sure everyone that was interviewed, so if you know, please tell me and I’ll update the post.) Read more…
I always got a kick out of the signs in the student body section proclaiming, “The Prophet is a Ute!” After all, so many Mormons proclaim that BYU is the “Lord’s University”, that it was really nice to point out that President Hinckley is an alum of the University of Utah. The cool thing is that the signs can stay up, because President Monson is also an alum of the U, (though he did get an MBA from BYU, so I guess both schools can claim him.) Anyway, I was quite amused to hear on the radio yesterday, that Joseph Smith has officially decided to attend the University of Utah. You can verify the info right here! If BYU is the Lord’s University, it seems that Utah is the School of the Prophets!
Here in Utah, during the week of the Utah-BYU football game, also known as the “Holy War”, fans on each side and get downright fanatical. Being the church school, many mormons pretty much bear testimony that BYU is “the Lord’s school”, and that God wants BYU to win. Fans of Utah get quite upset about this, and complain about BYU fan’s haughty attitude.
It’s always refreshing to me when I discover similar attitudes in other religions. This article on MSNBC: Does God care who wins the Super Bowl? even references the Holy War… Here are some quotes from the article I found particularly interesting.
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