Tales from the Minnesota Gophers (eBook)

A Collection of the Greatest Gopher Stories Ever Told

Ray Christensen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
224 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-700-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In Tales from the Minnesota Gophers Sideline, Ray Christensen tells nearly 200 tales from all 11 mens sports at the University of Minnesota. The emphasis is largely on the last half of the 20th century, during which time Christensen did the radio play-by-play of Golden Gopher football for 50 consecutive seasons, 510 games, and U of M basketball for 45 straight seasons, 1,309 games. Christensen, a broadcasting award member of the College Football Hall of Fame, tells stories ranging from dramatic victories to more lighthearted, humorous events that combine to form a Big Ten tapestry, with the University of Minnesota at its core.From the Minnesota wrestlers incredible comeback for a 2001 NCAA championship to the Gophers game-ending field goals that led to remarkable upsets to the golf teams string of birdies that enabled the squad to make the cut and James McLean to capture the NCAA individual crown, the book covers it all. Perfect for the bookshelf of any fan of Gophers athletics!

Autor

Ray Christensen was active in radio broadcasting for 55 years. Before retiring in March of 2001, he did the play-by-play of University of Minnesota football for 50 consecutive seasons and Gopher basketball for 45 consecutive seasons. He was inducted into the Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2002 and received the 2011 Distinguished Minnesotan Award. Dave Mona did color commentary alongside Ray Christensen during Ray’s final three years of Gopher football play-by-play. A winner of both the Associated Press and Edward R. Murrow awards for his 13 years of Gopher broadcasting, Mona’s Beyond the Sports Huddle: Mona on Minnesota topped the list of regional best-selling sports books in 2008. For the past 32 years he has co-hosted the WCCO-AM Sports Huddle with Sid Hartman. He is a 2013 inductee into the Minnesota Business Hall of Fame in recognition of his work in founding the region’s largest public relations business.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2014
• Co-Autor: Dave Mona
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1909 • 1941 • All-American • Alumni • ancel • Athletics • bernie bierman • books on ancel books on keys • books on athletics • books on bronk • books on championships books • books on coaches • books on college footballs • books on college sports • books on drop-kicks • books on football programs • books on fullbacks • books on heisman • books on kostka • books on memorials • books on notre dames • books on offenses • books on play-by-plays • books on rah-rah-rahs • books on rathbun • books on rockne • books on seasons • books on spartans • books on stadia • books on ten schools • books on time colleges • books on trophies • books on universities • books on western conferences • Bronk • bronko • Bruce Smith • Championship • Coach • College Football • college sports • drop-kick • exhaustive research • football program • Fullback • heisman • Iowa • john mcgovern • Keys • kostka • Memorial • Michigan • Minnesota • nagurski • Northwestern • Notre Dame • offense • Play-by-play • rah-rah-rah • rathbun • rockne • rouser • Seasons • spartan • Stadium • ten schools • time college • Trophy • Universities • Western Conference • yost
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-700-5 / 1613217005
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-700-9 / 9781613217009