WHY PREPARING FOR SPECIAL SITUATIONS IS A GOOD IDEA: Sometimes life just isn’t fair. UCLA enters the Pac-10 basketball tournament today as the top seed, and is a favorite to garner a similar position in the NCAA tournament.
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Meanwhile, 112 miles north of Staples Center at the ass-end of the San Joaquin Valley, the last man to coach the Bruins to a national title, Jim Harrick, is coaching the NBDL Bakersfield Jam to a dead-last finish (it’s gotten so ugly that the NBDL bogarted the Jam’s team stats page).
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Guess the coach didn’t take his own advice.
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As a Univ. of Georgia alumnus, I can’t tell you how








