Dean Smith: John Feinstein was working with the legendary UNC coach on a book last year, and was well aware of Smith’s memory issues. We’ll warn you in advance – this is a bit sad. “The sessions I had with him in August were difficult—more difficult, to be honest, than I anticipated. There were still moments when he was classic Dean. His description of the night he met his first wife, Ann, was hysterical: ‘It was the graduation dance. She came with a football player I didn’t like. The guy was really cocky. I decided to ask her to dance and we hit it off right away.’ Typical Dean; his competitiveness led him to the altar. But there were other moments when he simply couldn’t remember things. When I asked him to talk about Bob Spear, his first boss at the Air Force Academy, he said, ‘you tell me about him. Maybe it will come back.’” [Feinstein on the Brink]