One day last month Al Scates, the UCLA volleyball coach, was sitting in his den rhapsodizing about a favorite subject: his national championship rings. "I rotate them depending on how I feel," said ...

Al Scates was nervous to talk to him ““ check that, eventual 19-time NCAA champion Al Scates was nervous to talk to him. In 1963, when Scates got a job coaching the UCLA men’s volleyball team, he had ...

LOS ANGELES – Al Scates has spent a half-century putting up big numbers. Mind-boggling numbers. Nineteen NCAA men’s volleyball titles (and counting) at UCLA, more than 1,200 victories (and counting).

The modern sports industry is a dirty, mutilated shell of what it once was. College football scandals robbed us of our innocence, Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant betrayed our trust and steroid use in ...

He was John Wooden’s neighbor, the guy with the office next door, the guy who would see Wooden at the Encino grocery store or the post office. Maybe the one guy in college athletics who could lend the ...

Although collegiate volleyball normally does not garner many headlines, there are times when an event causes people to take notice. The retirement of Al Scates in June of 2012 after 50 years of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP)-- Al Scates, whose nearly 50-year men's volleyball coaching career at UCLA includes a Division I record of more than 1,200 victories, will retire in June 2012. The school announced ...

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Al Scates, who has spent half a century coaching men’s volleyball at UCLA, will retire after the 2012 season. Scates, 71, has led the Bruins to 19 NCAA championships and was selected national coach of ...