Happy 100th Birthday, Coach Wooden!

The pebble you dropped in the pond of life so many years ago will be making ripples for generations.

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How's this for a BALL story...

New Buena Park High School football coach Anthony White didn't know what to expect when he showed up for his spring football workouts. After all, the only league game the team had "won" since 2002 was a forfeit - and they lost that game on the field 45-7.

What he found wasn't encouraging. Not only were there just 23 players in the entire program...13 were academically-ineligible.

What would you do in this "situation"?

Here's what he did...

http://www.ocvarsity.com/sports/-22003--.html

Thanks to OC Register writer Jeff Miller for an intense and moving real-life story.

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Thanks Coach Jen!

We just got an awesome account of a story about sportsmanship and the "right" way to play the game (or any game). Thanks to BALL StoryTeller Coach Jen Solano for a tear jerker of a story about a home run, a torn ACL, and redemption...

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