Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room (eBook)

A Collection of the Greatest Duke Basketball Stories Ever Told

Jim Sumner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
212 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-960-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Duke Blue Devils have a long and glorious history of success, and that history comes alive in this newly revised edition of Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room. The Blue Devils storied past includes forty NCAA tournament appearances, sixteen trips to the final four, and five national titles. In this treasure trove of Duke history, Jim Sumner recalls the most legendary games and unique players that have come to define this championship team. Read about the 1968 ACC Tournament, North Carolinas scoreless half at Duke in 1979, Dukes upset win over UNLV in the 1991 Final Four, and the 1992 Duke-Kentucky Eastern Regional classic. Duke University has been home to thirty-six All-American basketball players. Nine of them have been named national player of the year: Dick Groat, Art Heyman, Johnny Dawkins, Danny Ferry, Christian Laettner, Elton Brand, Shane Battier, Jason Williams, and J. J. Redick. Their tales are included here along with stories from Duke coaching legends Eddie Cameron, Vic Bubas, Bill Foster, and Mike Krzyzewski. This is a must-read for any fan of Duke basketball.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

Jim Sumner has attended more than 1,000 basketball games at Duke University over the past half century, including men’s games, women’s games, tournament games, exhibition games, and even an ABA exhibition game. He has chronicled Duke’s rich hoops history in Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room and numerous other books, encyclopedias, magazines, scholarly journals, and websites. Sumner holds degrees in American history from Duke University and North Carolina State University and is a member of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association and the United States Basketball Writers Association. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1946 • 1970 • 1992 • apparel • arenas • assistant coaches • Athletes • athletic director • Atlantic Coast • basketball coaches • basketball court • basketball programs • basketballs • basketball teams • bertie • Bobby Knight • boston sports • Business Leaders • Business World • chapel hill • coached • Coaching • coast conference • college basketball • college coaches • College Football • college hoops • college sports • Confederate • cookbooks • dean smith • duke basketball • duke university basketball players • Durham • effective leader • Encyclopedia • Excellence • Federal • fist • Forsyth • Grad • grant hill • Head Coach • Hockey • intense rivalry • Iona • Jimmy • john feinstein • krzyzewski • laettner • leadership books on • legendary • Louisville • March Madness • Michigan • motivate • national championships • ncaa basketball • North Carolina • Philadelphia • preseason • Pro • Recruiting • rivalries • Rockingham • school coach • Smiths • SOX • Sports History • sports world • sportswriter • successful coaches • successful strategies • tar heel • Team building • team leader • tobacco road • Tournament • ultra competitive • warren • womens
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-960-1 / 1613219601
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-960-7 / 9781613219607