Huggins

So Bob Huggins withdraws his name when he finds out Elgin goes to Donald and says, "We'd like to interview Huggins this week for the job," and Sterling says, "My god, Miller must be 120 years old, but if he can win at baseball he should be able to win at basketball." FRED E. STEMRICH Claremont The Clippers are looking in the wrong place for their new coach. They should be looking at the high school level. That would fit with what they've been doing under Donald Sterling's leadership.

Before Charles N. Huggins began working at See's Candies in 1951 as a manager in the company's packing department in San Francisco, his favorite candies were black licorice and, thanks to his World War II service as a paratrooper, Hershey's chocolate. But as Huggins' sweet tooth remained a constant during his rise up the ladder to become the candy company's president and chief executive in 1972, his taste clearly underwent a See's-influenced evolution. And like a kid in a candy store, he had no trouble reciting his favorites in a 1998 San Diego Union-Tribune interview: "Butter Creams, Pecan Buds, Candied Ginger, Chocolate Truffles, Chocolate Lollypops, Chocolate Nut Fudge, Victoria Toffee and Polar Bear Paws.

Wouldn't a 3.97 GPA at West Virginia rate summa cum laude? Maybe Bob Huggins used a George O'Leary template for his resume. JIM ZANT La Habra

— Ramona Quimby is everywhere. She's outside the front door of Beverly Cleary's retirement community apartment, on a poster that proclaims: "Libraries are forever!" She's on a sideboard in the living room, in the form of a life-size bust, hair wild and face cut into the shape of a grin. Most important, she's on the bookshelf in Cleary's neat, spare bedroom, along with the author's other books, 40 or so of them, the work of half a century. Asked which is her favorite character, the 95-year-old doesn't hesitate.

Huggins announces that he's "fed up with the weak whimpers of the left-leaning politicians and physical cowards" opposed to Reagan's Central American policies. His letter reminds me of Steve Allen's angry-man routine on television. If it weren't so serious it would be funny. As the founder of Vietnam Veterans Who Don't Want Their Sons to Die for Nothing, obviously one of the groups Huggins despises, I'd like to point out a few facts. Perhaps Huggins will hear them over the noise of his rattling sabers.

As the race to produce fusion in a flask heated up around the world Tuesday, Stanford University revealed experiments that indicate nuclear fusion, and not some kind of chemical reaction, is the most likely explanation for heat generated by a table-top apparatus at the University of Utah. The Stanford announcement came on the heels of discovery of helium-4 in the Utah experiment, a discovery that fits perfectly with a growing number of theories that explain why it might be possible to achieve fusion at room temperature with a simple experiment.

Just weeks before the national political conventions get underway, a crucial figure has yet to commit to the presidential race. Jason Sudeikis, who plays "Saturday Night Live's" Mitt Romney as a cheerfully button-down, out-of-touch, Ward Cleaver-like figure, said he has not yet decided whether to return to the sketch show when it resumes this fall. After nine years at "SNL" - the last few as the show's most valuable straight man - Sudeikis has been spending recent months focusing on his movie career.

Stephen J. Cannell, the prolific television writer and producer who co-created "The Rockford Files" and "The A-Team" and later became a bestselling novelist, has died. He was 69. Cannell died Thursday evening of complications associated with melanoma at his home in Pasadena, his family said. In a career that began in the late 1960s when he sold his first TV script and took off as he soon became the hottest young writer on the Universal lot, Cannell created or co-created more than 40 TV shows, including "Baa Baa Black Sheep," "Baretta," "The Greatest American Hero" and "21 Jump Street.

Despite a report saying he would accept an offer to become West Virginia's coach, Bob Huggins said Friday he has yet to make a decision. Huggins, the Cincinnati coach, also did not indicate whether West Virginia has made an offer. A report earlier in the day that appeared on CBS SportLine.com, based on unidentified sources, said Huggins would accept West Virginia's offer. "I have not made a decision," Huggins, 48, told Cincinnati's WCPO-TV. "I don't know anything."

Cincinnati basketball Coach Bob Huggins' condition improved Sunday, a day after he suffered a heart attack at Pittsburgh International Airport during a recruiting trip. Huggins, 49, remained in serious but stable condition at Medical Center in Beaver, about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, said Tom Hathaway, Cincinnati's assistant athletic director. "He continues to make progress and the doctors are happy with the type of progress he's made this afternoon," Hathaway said.

There weren't enough hankies in the land of Yankees a few weeks ago when the sound system blasted "Country Roads" after West Virginia won the Big East Tournament title at New York's Madison Square Garden. Bob Huggins then took his team home to the place they belong. "Who is not going to get choked up?" Huggins recalled Monday. " John Denver probably would have cried." Huggins, a West Virginia native and former player who returned to his alma mater in 2007, put the Mountaineers on the path to their first Final Four since 1959.

PHOENIX -- What is this, the Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout? It's Bob Huggins against Xavier all over again. The Cincinnati-Xavier basketball rivalry could make USC-UCLA hoops look friendly, and now Huggins, the old nemesis, is sending his West Virginia team against Xavier in an NCAA West Regional semifinal. "I'm sure a lot of Xavier fans are glad he's not coaching UC anymore because when he was there, they were a real hard team to beat," said Xavier forward C.J. Anderson, a Cincinnati native who remembers when Huggins prowled the sideline.

WASHINGTON -- The prototypical Bob Huggins player is the opposite of the group he coaches at West Virginia. Taking the form of players such as Kansas State super freshmen Michael Beasley and Bill Walker -- his two high-profile recruits in his brief tenure as Wildcats coach -- Huggins' type typically excels in one-on-one situations. His offenses strive to set up isolation opportunities, where his players can use their quickness to break opponents down off dribble penetration.

Wouldn't a 3.97 GPA at West Virginia rate summa cum laude? Maybe Bob Huggins used a George O'Leary template for his resume. JIM ZANT La Habra

Bob Huggins, after only one season as coach at Kansas State, resigned Thursday to become coach at West Virginia. Kansas State administrators thanked Huggins for turning around the Wildcats' fortunes, but it was clear they weren't happy about his dash out of town. "Bob is a good guy. I think he made a bad decision, but he is a good person," Athletic Director Tim Weiser said. "He was great to work with. He is much different than I think he is portrayed as being."

The ink had barely dried on Bob Huggins' contract when Kansas State officials were offered a glimpse of what they were getting themselves into. A few hundred miles east from Manhattan, Kan., where Huggins was introduced Thursday afternoon as the Wildcats' new coach, a few of his former -- and perhaps future -- ballplayers were making headlines at his last stop. Maybe it was just an unfortunate coincidence. First, there was the story of O.J.

Bob Huggins accepted an offer to become the coach at Kansas State, the Kansas City Star reported. The newspaper said a news conference was expected to be held today. Huggins, forced out last August after 16 years as Cincinnati's coach, will replace Jim Wooldridge. Huggins, 52, accepted a $3 million buyout after a public squabble with new Cincinnati President Nancy Zimpher.

Bob Huggins agreed Wednesday to step down as Cincinnati's basketball coach, ousted by a school president determined to change the program's image. One day after Huggins was given a choice of resigning or being fired, he agreed to take a $3-million buyout of his contract. The school's offer includes a chance to stay for three more months, giving advice on basketball recruits and related matters.