UCLA’s basketball center Bill Walton, left, carries a large piece of wood to use in building a barricade outside the administration building of the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, Calif., May 11, 1972.

Of the 515 men to play for the Celtics, Bill Walton will forever be remembered as one of one Some may have cherished being a Celtic as much as Walton did. No one could have cherished it more.

NBA Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, who died of colon cancer last month, was the best player in the world at his peak. As described in David Halberstam’s book The Breaks of the Game, a merely ...

Walton played on a high school team, Helix High, in La Mesa, California, that won its last 49 games. He once won 88 games in a row at UCLA after his team won its first 73 games.

Bill Walton was one of the greatest basketball players of all time – a champion at every level and the embodiment of unselfish team play. He was also a wonderful spirit full of curiosity, humor ...

Anyone of a certain age who enjoyed watching The Waltons during its original run in the 1970s is pleased to see the show return in a similar form on The CW.

Full disclosure...I watched all 221 episodes of classic CBS family drama The Waltons from 1972 to 1981 (which, in nine seasons, racked up 13 Primetime Emmy Awards, 2 Golden Globes, and a Peabody ...

Walton passed away on May 27 at age 71. The two-time NBA All-Star won a championship with the Celtics in 1986, when he was the team's sixth man. Walton's family was in attendance for Game 1 at TD ...

The Waltons ran for an impressive nine seasons from 1972 to 1981, airing 221 episodes and six reunion movies. “You couldn’t help but feel excited,” Learned says. “Ralph and I used to joke ...