Humanitarian mission
Here is a story I wrote about UCLA power forward Luc Richard Mbah a Moute in today's paper. Also, Jill Painter wrote a story about coach John Wooden.
One thing I didn't get into in the Mbah a Moute story was his desire to help people in his homeland after he is done playing basketball.
"I hope I make a lot of money so I can make my country better,'' Mbah a Moute said. "I want to give back. I don't know what, maybe build a hospital or something. But want to help the people of my country."
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About Inside UCLA
This is Brian Dohn's sixth 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.
I hope he does better at building hospitals than he does putting together Ikea furniture. More seriously, what a great role model.