| Game of My Life: Kansas Jayhawks |
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Glory Days: Illinois |
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Authors: Steve Buckner and Phillip Wilke
In his heart, Chris Piper felt confidently about playing the University of Oklahoma Sooners a third time in 1988. Piper and the University of Kansas Jayhawks had played the high-flying Sooners closely in a pair of eight-point losses during Big Eight Conference play. Outwardly, however, Piper conveyed a different image...
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Author: Taylor Bell
Along the way, somebody invented the jump shot and the crossover dribble and added a three-point line. Times changed, the game was integrated, players grew taller and more wildly athletic. That evolution is chronicled in Glory Days, as 50 of the state's best high school basketball players from the past five decades sit down to chat with longtime prep basketball scribe Taylor Bell. Every last one of the featured players was an all-state selection.
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| Jimmy Black's Tales from the Tar Heels |
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Glory Days: Indiana |
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Author: Jimmy Black with Scott Fowler
has been 25 years since the 1981-82 North Carolina basketball team won the national championship with a thrilling one-point win over Georgetown. Jimmy Black was the senior point guard and undisputed leader of a Dean Smith-coached Tar Heel team that also included starters James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Matt Doherty, and a freshman named Michael Jordan.
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Author: Dick Denny
Basketball talent in Indiana is probably no better than that found in any other state, yet the richness of tradition is unequalled anywhere else in the country. Author Dick Denny explores the Indiana basketball culture through this wonderful presentation of interviews and stories with Indiana’s greatest male high school basketball stars. These legends include Carl Erskine, Monte Towe, and George McGinnis. Each former Indiana basketballer provides
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Gregory Kelser's Tales from Michigan State Basketball |
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Author: Ron Higgens
The Grizzlies are the NBA’s version of Extreme Makeover. Born in Vancouver, the franchise was the worst in the NBA. No free agent ever wanted to play there. It was like being in a witness protection program. But when Chicago businessman Michael Heisley bought the team, he soon realized he had to get to a market where the franchise was the king, and that there was a plan in place to build a winner.
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Author: Gregory Kelser with Steve Grinczel
Magic Johnson may be the enduring face of Michigan State basketball. Mateen Cleaves came to represent its heart while leading the Spartans to the 2000 national championship. Gregory Kelser, however, personifies the soul of the program. Kelser collaborated with Johnson to lead MSU to its first NCAA title in 1979. Here he discusses his role in the Spartans’ victory over Indiana State and Larry Bird and how that game triggered college basketball’s surge of popularity that continues to this day. He also provides insight and opinion
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Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Hardwood |
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Authors: David Krider and J.R. Shelt
Basketball rules in Indiana, and no one knows that better than Jack Keefer. As the only men’s basketball coach in Lawrence North High School’s history, Keefer has coached prep hoops in Indianapolis since the days of Bobby Knight’s powerhouse mid-‘70s squads. In that time, Keefer has had a lengthy list of All-Stars suit up for him: Eric Montross, Reed Crafton, Chris Hill, Tom Geyer, Jeff Leyden, Todd Leary, John Stewart. None have matched what Greg Oden and Mike Conley have accomplished, though. Matter of fact, none have even come close.
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Author: Jim Sumner
The Duke Blue Devils have a long history of success in intercollegiate basketball, and that history comes alive within these pages, as detailed by Duke historian James Sumner. The Blue Devils’ storied past includes 27 NCAA tournament appearances, 13 trips to the final four and three national titles.
A number of Duke games have achieved legendary status and they are relived in Tales From The Duke Blue Devils Hardwood.
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| Reynolds Remembers |
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DEE BROWN: My Illini Years |
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Author:
Jerry Reynolds with Don Drysdale
Jerry Reynolds was country before country was cool. He also was part of the Sacramento Kings before that was cool. The Kings are celebrating their 20th season in California's capital, and Jerry has been there from the start. Quietly, he has been instrumental in the team's growth from a shoestring operation that couldn't compete to a model NBA franchise that is always on the short list of title contenders. He has been a first-hand witness of the league's evolution from Bird and Magic, to Jordan, to LeBron and Yao Ming.
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Author: The News-Gazette
The sound of the public address announcer yelling out "Deeeee for Threeeee!" reverberated throughout the Assembly Hall for four magnificent seasons, "The One-Man Fast Break" became a household term to college basketball fans around the country, and orange headbands sold out in sporting goods stores everywhere in central Illinois. Dee Brown will probably go down in history as the most popular player to ever suit up for the University of Illinois, as he became the ideal teammate and a positive role model for children all over the state during his four years of basketball bliss in Champaign-Urbana.
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| I Should Be Dead By Now |
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Author: Dennis Rodman with Jack Isenhour
Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three-straight NBA titles in the 1990's or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most polarizing personalities in the sports world. The controversial and flamboyant former basketball star, who recently had a tryout with the Denver Nuggets and has played with the Long Beach Jam of the ABA
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