Stanford, Calif. - Bill Walton returned to Stanford – his old law school home – Wednesday for the eighth installment of his nine-stop Pac-12 campus tour.

[Related: Bus tour brings Walton back to his roots]

Though many of Walton’s connections to Stanford are well documented – including he and his son Nate’s time as graduate students – Walton said his biggest Stanford moment may have been one from his recruiting trip in the spring of 1969.…

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SEATTLE — Only Bill Walton would be able to cover as much ground in an 80-minute speaking engagement as he did on Wednesday.

Bob Dylan, John Wooden, Lorenzo Romar, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, leprechauns, The Grateful Dead, TV deals, and Brandon Roy were just a few of the topics that Walton touched on in front of about 100 University of Washington students, when the #WaltonOnWheels tour made stop 7 of 9 in Seattle.…

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An ordinary father wouldn’t visit his son’s college nearly a decade after his child graduated, but “ordinary” and “Bill Walton” are two words that are rarely paired together.

Walton spent Wednesday morning speaking at the University of Arizona, the alma mater of his son, Luke, who played for the Arizona Wildcats basketball team from 1999 to 2003.…

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TEMPE, Ariz. – Vietnam. Basketball. The Grateful Dead. Immigration. John Wooden.

These topics could only come together with Bill Walton, who made his stop to Arizona State University Tuesday on the “Walton on Wheels” Pac-12 campus tour.

The emcee was none other than former ASU guard Kyle Dodd.…

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LOS ANGELES – It would have been difficult to miss the 6-foot-11 UCLA Bruin legend strolling deep into the heart of USC’s campus.

Making his way through the maze of construction by Heritage Hall on Wednesday, Bill Walton approached the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, which sits an overhead pass away from USC’s iconic Tommy Trojan statue.…

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – As I wrote in my two previous posts, Bill Walton’s intent for his Pac-12 campus tour is to let students into his head – to share his stories and thoughts on any and every topic. Aboard the bus from Eugene to Corvallis, I asked him to share the key nuggets of wisdom he wanted to deliver while on the tour.…

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