Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports (Nebraska, 2022) by Clayton Trutor. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Loserville
Pete Carril, Princeton’s Hall of Fame basketball coach, passed away on August 15, 2022 at the age of 92. During Carril’s time at Princeton, his team won the National Invitational Tournament in 1975, won 13 Ivy League titles, and earned … Continue reading Remembering Pete Carril
Patrick Madden is the author of three UNP books, most recently the essay collection Disparates (Nebraska, 2020). Every March, Ander Monson and Megan Campbell organize several dozen writers to gather inspiration from 64 songs strategically chosen to represent a phase … Continue reading Vote for Patrick Madden for March Plaidness
Books The Speed Game: My Fast Times in Baseball Praise from The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: “This is the second memoir by a basketball coach that I read over the long Thanksgiving weekend and it lived up to what … Continue reading News and Reviews
UNP is celebrating Black History Month with—what else—books! Here is a list of titles that commemorate important figures and scholarship in African American History. In Living the California Dream Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by … Continue reading What to Read During Black History Month
Books Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul Edward K. Kaplan Review in the Wall Street Journal: “In this admiring and detailed biography, Mr. Kaplan shows that Heschel’s journey from tradition to modernity began early . . . Mr. Kaplan shows that … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is an excerpt from The Greatest Upset Never Seen by Jack Danilewicz (Nebraska, 2019). Chapter 7: Miracle on Ward Avenue December 23, 1982. Not yet half past 6:00 p.m., but already darkness has arrived in the tourist district … Continue reading Excerpt: The Greatest Upset Never Seen
Books The Greatest Upset Never Seen Jack Danilewicz Praise from the Wall Street Journal: “Entertaining, carefully researched. . . . Mr. Danielwicz has it right: The ‘sun has never set’ on Chaminade’s glorious win. Chances are, it never will.” The Jews Should … Continue reading News and Reviews
David Shields’ Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Award, and named one of the best nonfiction books of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, LA Weekly, and Amazon. … Continue reading David Shields’ Black Planet & New Documentary
The following is an excerpt from Kyrie Irving: Uncle Drew, Little Mountain, and Enigmatic NBA Superstar (October 2019). Author Martin Gitlin is a veteran sportswriter who worked for seven years at CBSSports.com and has won more than forty-five awards as … Continue reading Excerpt: Kyrie Irving
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