Game of My Life University of Kansas Jayhawks (eBook)

Memorable Stories of Jayhawk Basketball

Steve Buckner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
272 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-733-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The night of April 4, 1988 will forever live in the hearts of fans of Jayhawks basketball. On that night, the Jayhawks and their fans raucously celebrated the teams first national title since 1952. This game for the ages is one of 22 contests joyously recalled in this reissue of Steve Buckners Game of My Life Kansas Jayhawks.For fans of the Kansas Jayhawks, Game of My Life is a fabulous stroll down memory lane in which several Jayhawks basketball legends detail the events that culminated in the game of their lives. Players from the 1988 NCAA Championship squad share their insights into the collective game of their lives, as well as the defeat of rival Oklahoma in the national championship game. Former players featured include Mark Turgeon, Drew Gooden, Steve Woodberry, Paul Pierce, Nick Collison, Rex Walters, Mario Chalmers, and Kirk Hinrich, along with former coach Larry Brown and many more legends.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Steve Buckner has been a writer and editor for over 20 years. Buckner currently works as a freelance commercial writer, specializing in business communications. He is the former president of Write This Way Media Services L.L.C., a commercial freelance writing business in Lawrence, Kansas. He received an M.S. in journalism from KU in 1990. Past titles include Portraits of Excellence: A Heritage of Athletic Achievement at the University of Kansas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2015
• Vorwort: Bill Self
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1983-84 • 1985-86 • 1986 • 36th • arenas • assists • averaged • basketball players • basketballs • books on arenas • books on basketball players • books on basketballs • books on bruins • books on chalks • books on championships • books on coaches • books on coachings • books on college basketballs • books on collison • books on coordinators • books on fieldhouses • books on fouls • books on giddens • books on halftimes • books on jacksonville books on shockers • books on jayhawk • books on kansas • books on kemper • books on lockers • books on louisville • books on mizzou • books on ncaas • books on piper • books on semifinals • books on teammates • books on topeka • books on tournaments • books on turnovers • books on womens • Bruins • Chalk • Championship • Coaches • Coaching • college basketball • collison • coordinator • dreiling • fieldhouse • fouls • Giddens • halftime • Jacksonville • jayhawk • Kansas • Kemper • larry brown • locker • Louisville • Manning • milt newton • mizzou • NCAA • Piper • robert turgeon • semifinals • shockers • teammates • topeka • Tournament • turnovers • wichita • womens
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-733-1 / 1613217331
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-733-7 / 9781613217337