In 1974 Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Foster Park. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives, and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything he saw: the on-court flash, the off-court ...
The 1985 Bears set a standard for success which hasn't been matched in the past quarter century. The Monsters of the Midway did not only demolish the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX, they dominated the NFL that season the way few teams have in the history of the sport. The Bears finished the regular season with a gleaming 15-1 record, ...
'The best description of basketball played in New York City streets during the sixties and seventies' - Bill Bradley, "The New Yorker". 'Superb ...[Axthelm] combines Knick history, player backgrounds, seasonal anecdotes and court triumphs with another phenomenon - city basketball in the crowded ghettoes of the nation. The areas he focuses on ...
Sports journalist Rick Telander publicly renounced his position as lead college football writer at Sports Illustrated to protest the rampant corruption he so vividly exposes in The Hundred Yard Lie. Now available in paperback.
A portrait of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. While Michael Jordan still leads the team, the support he had in Horace Grant and B.J. Armstrong is gone. But Toni Kukoc begins to fulfill the passing potential Jerry Krause saw in him; Scottie Pippen has matured into a true superstar; and Dennis Rodman, coach killer and all-around bad boy, bangs the boards ...
Senior Sports Illustrated writer Rick Telander--author of Heaven Is a Playground and The Hundred-Yard Lie--goes behind the scenes in a Big Ten athletic department to reveal the human fall-out from the necessary political and financial decisions that dominate college sports.
More than 30 years ago, acclaimed author and Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander was drafted out of Northwestern University by a Kansas City Chiefs team filled with future Pro Football Hall of Famers and coached by the legendary Hank Stram. Telander recently found the tattered, spiral-bound journal he kept while in that training camp ...
Eleven-year-old Robby Denwood is obsessed with basketball and worships J.J., the NBA superstar of the mighty Thunder. Unfortunately, Robby is himself a terrible player, benched for all of his school team's games. After one hard day on the practice field, Robby decides to run away. When a chance meeting brings him together with his hero, he finds ...
"Heaven Is a Playground" was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a young photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: c1989
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780803226784ISBN:0803226780
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1996
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 1st Edition. 6.5"x9.5". This hard covered book has a black dj with orange and red lettering. a story of the chicago bulls, and their players. 267 pages. read more
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