Category: Sports

Dominating The NCAA

March 27, 2025 by • Sports • 0 Comments

From 1964 thru 1975, basketball coach John Wooden led UCLA to ten different NCAA tournament championship appearances…over the course of twelve years.  All ten appearances during that twelve-year period resulted in victories.  Ten appearances.  Ten victories.  From 1964 thru 1975.

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS:

  • 1964:  UCLA
  • 1965:  UCLA
  • 1966:  UTEP
  • 1967:  UCLA
  • 1968:  UCLA
  • 1969:  UCLA
  • 1970:  UCLA
  • 1971:  UCLA
  • 1972:  UCLA
  • 1973:  UCLA
  • 1974:  North Carolina St.
  • 1975:  UCLA

Winning back-to-back-to-back NCAA championships has never happened outside of the late 1960’s/early 1970’s…in men’s basketball.  Not once since the NCAA tournament began in 1939.  (That’s 86 years of NCAA tournaments for men’s basketball.)    

Do the math, folks.  What is the statistical probability of one college winning seven consecutive NCAA tournament championships precisely during the late 60’s/early 70’s?

mathematical \\  2a: rigorously exact:  PRECISE  b: CERTAIN  3: possible but highly improbable  

Let this sink in for a while.  Think deeply about this, especially considering that UCLA’s coach during this time has said, “Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.”

 

ABOUT JOHN WOODEN…AND HIS LACK OF GREED

“He never made more than $35,000 a year salary (not including camps and speaking engagements), including 1975, the year he won his 10th national championship, and never asked for a raise” –from Rick Reilly of ESPN.

 

Dominating College Basketball

March 26, 2025 by • Sports • 0 Comments

From 1968 thru 1970, Pete Maravich lit up the college basketball record books for:

  • career points
  • career points per game
  • season points per game (his three seasons leading the chart)

Christian author Donald Whitney concludes in the final paragraphs of his book Spiritual Disciplines For The Christian Life with a quote from Pete Maravich, leading Whitney to conclude “he ultimately regretted giving such productive discipline to anything besides his faith in Christ”.

“The key to my ability was repetition.  I practiced and practiced and practiced again.  I gave the sport my total commitment.  I tried everything I could in every way I could to perfect my skills.  It was like an obsession.” 

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The World Of Sports And Television

March 18, 2025 by • Sports, Television • 0 Comments

With the first Super Bowl in January of 1967, it’s no lie that the earliest years of The Super Bowl were in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s.  Or to be more specific, it can truly be said that the first seven years of The Super Bowl were in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. 

And looking beyond that time frame, of the top 28 “All-Time Most Watched Television Programs” according to the 2024 World Almanac, 26 of those programs were Super Bowl games.  And so there’s significance to include the earliest years of an annual sporting event that would dominate both the world of sports and television.

But perhaps some might be thinking it’s kind of a stretch to list the first seven years of The Super Bowl among this list of events that were exclusive to the late 1960’s/early 1970’s since The Super Bowl continued past 1973.  For example, if someone were to say that the first ten years of The Super Bowl were in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, that would be false since it would include the mid-1970’s.  Or if I were to say that the first three years of The Super Bowl were in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, then that would also be false since 1970 would fall after the first three years of the Super Bowl.

So for those who see this inclusion as a bit of a reach, I see your point.

The Late 1960’s/Early 1970’s

March 3, 2025 by • Books, Entertainment, Financial, History, Law, News, News & Media, Politics, Religion, Society, Sports, Television • 0 Comments

  • Americans walking on the moon.
  • America losing a war.
  • America’s only president who would be forced to resign winning presidential elections.
  • Historical events that would play a major role in Americans turning on their presidents who had won their last elections in landslides.
  • Construction of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City.
  • New York City plagued with various strikes by public employees.
  • New freedoms for Hollywood thanks to the MPAA’s new classification system.
  • Martin Scorsese begins his film career as a director.
  • Early development for Hollywood’s disastrous disaster movies (from Airport to The Towering Inferno).
  • The American movie industry struggling for economic survival.
  • The movie industry’s future king working in television.
  • Construction of the Magic Kingdom at Disney World, the world’s most visited theme park.
  • The first seven years of the Superbowl, an annual sporting event that has since dominated the record books for the “All-Time Most Watched TV Programs”.
  • Historic Middle East conflicts of the 20th Century between Israel and the Arab world.
  • Nixon’s vice-president and legal problems with his income taxes.
  • The birth of a new social movement.
  • William Peter Blatty heading towards winning an Oscar.
  • Pete Maravich lighting up college basketball’s record books.
  • Coach John Wooden leading UCLA to seven consecutive NCAA tournament championships.
  • The first printing of two published books from Christian author Og Mandino containing The Ten Great Scrolls.
  • And finally, Mario Puzo creating a cultural phenomena with “The Godfather”.

Top Social Contagions

December 1, 2024 by • Crime, Law, Politics, Religion, Society, Sports, Television • 0 Comments

TOP SOCIAL CONTAGIONS IN RECENT TIMES

  • Television
  • Voting for those who will criminalize people of faith for their religious beliefs
  • Voting for a felon 91 times over in the primaries
  • Incarcerating people of faith for their religious beliefs while not prosecuting violent offenders
  • Incarcerating people of faith for their religious beliefs while letting out violent offenders early
  • Incarcerating people of faith for their religious beliefs while jails and prisons are increasingly overcrowded
  • Public school systems robbing children of their innocence
  • Mutilating children
  • Butchering of the unborn
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion…which really doesn’t include diversity of thought.  Not very inclusive.  Not true diversity.  (And equity is nothing more than communism.  Communism doesn’t work.)
  • Corporations chilling free speech…
  • Silencing of the truth by the media
  • Government censorship of dissenting opinions
  • Supporting Hollywood while California kidnaps children for the purpose of mutilating them
  • Supporting Hollywood while California accuses Christian parents of child abuse for their religious beliefs
  • Destroying the purpose of Title IX.
  • People in government who can’t define what a woman is attempting to define what misinformation is.
  • Conservatives refusing to stand up to a criminal/tyrant now that the left has suffered a severe blow in the national elections.
  • Conservatives who have drank the Trump cool-aid, believing almost anything he says.

Which social contagions are you fighting against?  Which social contagions are you a part of?  

“It is possible, with God’s help, to stand firm even when everyone around us is falling away.  We don’t have to follow the crowd; we can follow God instead.”  –from the Every Man’s Bible commentary (Revelation 3)

“…a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right…Time makes more converts than reason.”  –from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense