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| Cat Basketball Slam Dunk by Adam Rifkin |
Fall and winter are my favorite seasons of the year
because there’s college football and
basketball and the NFL and the NBA and the MLB World Series! Yippee!
I not only like to watch sports, I like to read about
sports. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Moneyball:
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. It
discusses the art of sabermetrics to determine what bargain player will best mesh
with the rest of your team statistically to win. It made watching the movie so
much more fun! Oh, and Brad Pitt is in it!
And how about Glory
Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed
Against the Odds and Changed America Forever by
Don Haskins. This coach decided to play the best players regardless of race. Watch
the movie too, you’ll get a history lesson.
Currently, I’m reading Eleven
Rings by Phil Jackson, the former Laker coach. He discusses
his management style and how to manage guys with big personalities. Guys like
Kobe, Shaq, and MJ. Don’t forget big personality Dennis Rodman!
On my read-next list is Those
Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by
James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales; also, Leagueof Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth by
brothers Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru.
Other books I recommend are Advancing
the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in
the NFL by N. Jeremi Duru. This is a true eye-opener
about African-American coaches fighting for equal opportunity within the NFL. You
might also be interested in knowing that we have Friday
Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
and yes, there was a movie, too. And a TV show.
Short on time? Don’t forget, we carry Sports
Illustrated, my personal favorite. You can find the most current issue
in the Pop section across from the Help Desk, and the older issues can be
located in the periodicals shelving area. Don’t know where this is? Come on in,
and ask. We’re all friendly folks aiming to “find every book its reader,” one of Ranganathan’s
Five Laws of Library Science.
What sports books and movies have you enjoyed? Gotta go,
there’s a game on.
Happy reading!
Rebecca
Clayton
Acquisitions/Cataloging Assistant
University
of Redlands
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