Inside UCLA with Brian Dohn

PROFILE

This is Brian Dohn's fifth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
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Kareem on Wooden

I talked to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Saturday after he spoke at halftime during UCLA's game against Cal. The 1968 NCAA title team was honored, but John Wooden couldn't be there since he was in the hospital. Abdul-Jabbar said at first that he didn't want to speak, but he did and said it was very emotional since Wooden couldn't be there. Abdul-Jabbar visited Wooden in the hospital last week.
``Every spring I’ve got to visit him in the hospital,’’ Abdul-Jabbar said. ``I don’t like that. I want it to stop.’’

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