Basketball legend Pete Maravich is remembered in this collection of of memorials written by his fellow players, coaches, friends, fans, and relatives, who remember not only a great athlete, but a man who turned away from heavy drinking and turned toward God and became a born-again Christian.
... Oscar , 148 , 155 Robertson , Scotty , 125 , 187 Robinson , Les , 12 , 35 , 38 , 42 , 173 , 175 , 177 Rowe , Curtis , 79 Rupp , Adolph , 55 , 86 , 94 , 178 Russell , Bill , 49 , 149 S Sanders , Apple , 80 , 82 , 154 , 156 Sandford ...
In ""Pete Maravich: Magician of the Hardwood, players, coaches, friends, fans, and relatives recall the soft-spoken man who turned away from heavy drinking and turned toward God.
The volume culminates in Brown's near-perfect photographs of Pete's shot that broke the NCAA scoring record during the 1970 Ole Miss game and of the ensuing game-stopping victory celebration.
The thing is , hitters like Hornsby and Cobb , they could run . Ted was not slow , but he wasn ' t any speedster . He wasn ' t slow - slow , but he couldn ' t make any infield hits . Ted had to get clean base hits . was You can ' t ...
Stuart Pearce (Association Football) 830 Pearce, S., Psycho: The Autobiography (London: Headline, 2000), 312pp. ... Maurice Rowe (Sports Photographer) 837 Rowe, M., The Motor Sport Photography of Maurice Rowe (Basingstoke: Macmillan, ...
Valvano's life is the classic story of courage and determination as borne out in his memorable line: Don't give up. Don't ever give up"". ""
The Life of Pete Maravich Mark Kriegel ... Pete entered the second grade when Press took the Aliquippa job. ... Pete would recall his early childhood in West Virginia with a clarity that makes no allowance for the subconscious: "I was ...
Neal told Telander. “You don't want to get too deep with him, and he definitely doesn't want to get too deep with you.” Neal was 260 pounds, a black man from Louisiana. But his bond with Na- math transcended race, geography, ...
And, unlike Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, or Manu Ginóbili, Nash was North American and relatively human-size. Fans and the media gobbled it up. The Suns were annually stymied by the Spurs in the Western Conference playoffs, but the team's ...
Among those contributing to this book are his former players and assistant coaches as well as other head coaches, media personalities, friends, and associates who knew him well at one time or another in his life