Howie Dallmar

•Howie Dallmar, Stanford basketball coach, on Lew Alcindor's devastating length-of-the-court passes: "They're tough to stop. It's like rushing the passer in football. You don't know whether to go in after Alcindor or...

•Howie Dallmar, Stanford basketball coach, objecting to the rating of UCLA as No. 1 college team: "I don't think they deserve to be better than No. 4, behind the Philadelphia 76ers, San Francisco Warriors and Boston...

In spite of its Friday phobia, things looked bright for Stanford as it came to Los Angeles to clinch the wildest West Coast race in years. Then came two dark days of double trouble

Coach Howie Dallmar would have you believe that his team looks "sort of dead, and in more ways than one." First, it is deadpanned—"They all have the same featureless features," says Dallmar. And second, it has had...