October is a great month to be a sports fan. The World Series playoffs are televised, the NBA season begins, NFL fans are still cheering on their favorite teams – college teams included – and the NHL schedule is well underway.
October is also a great time for sports-related reading, and UNP has several new sports books that have attracted national attention.
Scoreboard, Babywas reviewed by Steve Weinberg of The Seattle Times, who wrote “The book shocked me — because I do not follow college football as a spectator, I knew almost nothing about the unethical and even lawless nature of Huskies football until reading "Scoreboard, Baby." Marc Tracy of The New York Times wrote “What the investigative reporter Ken Armstrong and the higher-education correspondent Nick Perry have done, first in an award-winning Seattle Times series and now in ‘Scoreboard, Baby,’ is lay out — in hard-boiled style and with the verve only real storytelling can supply…” Tracy also says “The Huskies didn’t break new ground here, but in so comprehensively detailing them, the authors did.” Scoreboard, Baby reveals through investigating reporting how the Huskies’ football Cinderella story wasn’t exactly a fairytale.
The John Lardner Reader was reviewed by Tim Marchman of The Wall Street Journal, who wrote "The John Lardner Reader is a collection one of America’s press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art."
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