Alexander: Bob Rule helped make Riverside a basketball town

If Jerry Tarkanian had taken the word of the Riverside Poly coaches at face value all those years ago, rather than following his instincts, the basketball world might never have heard of Bob Rule.
But as it happened, when Rule passed away in his sleep Sept. 5 at the age of 75, he was remembered as a solid NBA player over seven seasons and the Seattle SuperSonics’ first homegrown star. Before that, he was a 6-foot-9 star at Colorado State. And before that, he was the key building block for