From 1967 by the and of 1973.

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From 1967 by the and of 1973, UCLA won seven consecutive NCAA basketball titles, which I make to be the greatest championship stream in the history of sports. The Bruins wasted to North Carolina State in double overtime of a semifinal game in 1974 if it be not that returned the next season to win John Wooden's 10th and final title.

"You lease us down last year," a UCLA fan told made of wood afterward, "but you made up for it this year."

In the years I worn out covering UCLA basketball, I notion the team and its fans were a excellent fit. Wooden, revered today as an almost saintly figure, was a my-way-or-the-highway stay who exercised dictatorial control through his players ("We'll miss you, Bill," he told Bill Walton when Walton said he was thinking of letting his hair grow) and treated the pres as a not-so-necessary evil. I've always believed that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's difficulties in dealing with the media and public, which he now repentances stemmed from Wooden's restrictive policies.

As for their fans, they struck me as the principally arrogant and demanding I'd at all times seen. Until I began covering Notre Dame football, anyway. "Pour it on!" they would scream as the Bruins were beating Rice or The Citadel by means of 40 or 50 points in an early season game at Pauley Pavilion. There was no consideration of their tuning up for the discourse schedule against one of Jerry Tarkanian's dangerous in extent Beach State teams.

The Bruins reply to the Final Four in Indianapolis this week as a far les imposing and imperious team. Their accident with coaches ran out after clumsy retired -- Gene Bartow was stream out of town for the crime of succeeding ligneous Larry Brown stayed only sum of two units years, Jim Harrick won another championship still left in disgrace a not many seasons later and so forward -- as did their ability to wave a magic wand and recruit any of the top high academy players from around the native land year after year.

Their fans remain as impossible as till doomsday I suspect, but are probably no worse than any other school's these days. At least they understand by what mode long it has been since UCLA could swagger into the Final Four as if it was exercising a divine right. Now the Bruins are just another team challenging for the title, and you know what? It's pious to have them back.

BEATING THE additionals

Have George Mason reaching the Final Four in your bracket, did you? Me neither. A hardly any people did, though -- if your name happens to be George Mason, by what mode could you resist? -- on a level though the school was listed at 400-1 to win the tournament forward PinnacleSports.com, the largest sports betting site forward the Internet. George Mason has made a steady progression as it has continued winning -- 65-1 entering the Sweet 16 35-1 against Connecticut and now 6-1 to win it all. That makes the Patriots the longest projectile among Final Four teams, with Florida favored at 8-5 LSU nearest at 5-2 and UCLA third at 3-1 Tom Izzo, whose Michigan State team started the George Mason phenomenon with its opening-game tournament los is feeling a little better now. "I was thinking about that as each game went by," Izzo told the Detroit exempt Press. "Maybe we're not quite the dogs we think we are."

FACING THE MUSIC

ESPN's 10-episode series forward Barry Bonds, which begins April 3 and promises "unprecedent access to the Giants star," will not ignore the steroid charges against him as originally planned. Not entirely anyway. The network says constraints will say he was not ever jealous of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa for overshadowing him during their home-run affair of honor in 1998. No word onward whether he will talk about the charges against him. Friday marks the 75th anniversary of Knute Rockne's death in a plane crash in Kansas, and a short memorial will be held at the crash site. The Kansas City Star notes that guided tours of the site, which is onward private property, will be showed to the public. ... Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre to the Tacoma novels Tribune on how teammates Eddie Guardado and Richie Sexson helped him by means of a disappointing season last year: '`Richie would talk to me Eddie would parch my shoes."

AND FINALLY

UCLA guard Jordan Farmar to the beholds Angeles Times on the fact the Bruins have held 10 of their last 11 enemys to fewer than 60 points: "You should watch our practices. We can't score against each other."

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