From the Wall Street Journal. (The Wall Street Journal?!) Questions for: Joanne Boyle -Turning a Pac-10 also-ran into a power eight years removed from a near-fatal brain hemorrhage

When Joanne Boyle arrived in Berkeley four years ago, the University of California women's basketball team had finished its 12th-straight losing season. Its previous coach was fired after going 52-91 in five years. The team was a local-media footnote compared to cross-bay rival Stanford.

But the Golden Bears have found themselves since then, reaching the last three NCAA tournaments. Now ranked as the nation's No. 4 team, they are contenders for the national title this year.