{"id":1192,"date":"2006-04-02T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T01:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/02\/ucla\/"},"modified":"2006-04-02T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T01:03:41","slug":"ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/02\/ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I came of age as a basketball player in the Johnny Wooden era. All those banners with a peerless moral leader of the old school like Johnny Wooden simply put UCLA on another level for me. And they\u2019ve been there most of these years. So, I\u2019m cheering for the Bruins tomorrow night. Johnny Wooden created a standard that will perhaps never again be reached by any NCAA basketball team. The present team is one of the best defensive teams I\u2019ve ever seen. Ferocious defense. <!--more|inline--><br>\nOn commercials in the NCAA Women\u2019s tourney\u2026 Harley paid too much money, because I\u2019ve seen that commercial WAAAAAAAAAY too many times; the Orbitz commercial is corny, and looks like something out of Star Trek\u2019s early years; the cell phone commercial, with just a touch of variety, is still fine.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came of age as a basketball player in the Johnny Wooden era. All those banners with a peerless moral leader of the old school like Johnny Wooden simply put UCLA on another level for me. And they\u2019ve been there most of these years. So, I\u2019m cheering for the Bruins tomorrow night. 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