Basketball

>"Darrel Campbell got the scoop of a lifetime" - Marshall Terrill, co-author- MARAVICH What happened to Pistol Pete Maravich during the last 3 years of his brief life after the NBA? The author who co-wrote Maravich's only personal biography has transposed rare tape recordings, compiled personal notes, and shared private letters he received while working with and traveling with Hall of Fame basketball player. The result is an inspirational book for all ages. Darrel Campbell, the Gold Medallion award-winning author of Pete Maravich's autobiography Heir to a Dream shares never-before-told stories that Pete and Press Maravich revealed just before their surprisingly sudden deaths. Read in their words how it was Coach Maravich's dream to mold his namesake into the greatest basketball player the world had ever seen, and read in Pistol Pete's words as he explains how it was his dream to make his father proud by becoming the first million dollar athlete, becoming a professional player, and becoming a world champion. "A truly inspiring book about a man that was not only my hero, but a hero to so many!"- Jackie Stiles, NCAA Scoring Champion & WNBA all-star basketball player This book is a great stocking stuffer. For author autographed copies for Christmas or any occasion, Campbell can be reached at darrelcampbell.com

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In 2010, when LeBron James announced to the world that he was leaving for Miami, he broke the collective heart of his native city and destroyed the hopes of an entire tortured generation. As LeBron headed south, unofficial spokesman Scott Raab sent him off with a middle-finger salute of his own?a deliciously obscene aria of sports fandom, Jewishness, and weight gain that becameinfamous as The Whore of Akron. Four years?and two NBA championships?later, LeBron came home to the Rust Belt faithful who had vilified him mercilessly, none more so than Raab. You're Welcome, Cleveland is the story of both LeBron's and Scott's redemption as they pursue the one thing they crave more than anything in life?an NBA title for the city that made them men.LeBron is back. So is Scott Raab. It's a great story.

Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as just another non-scholarship guard on the freshman basketball team in 1962 . . . and he still hasnt walked off. In six decades as a player, assistant coach and the head man on the bench for Syracuse Universitys basketball program, Boeheim is synonymous with the blood and thunder of East Coast hoops. In Bleeding Orange, Boeheim recounts for the first time all of the pleasures and perils of a career spent battling The Beasts of the Big East, the NCAA and his own fear of failure.The son of a funeral director, Coach Boeheim has always been full of life, and his combative nature helped ignite what was arguably the most fascinating and competitive college basketball conference everthe Big East of the 1980s. Boeheims battles with fellow coaches Big John Thompson of Georgetown, roly-poly Rollie Massimino of Villanova, feisty Jim Calhoun of Connecticut and beloved Louie Carnesecca of St. Johns turned the Big East into the best show in college basketball.Combining a real time, inside-the-program account of the 201314 seasonSyracuses first in the ACCwith a narrative of his most cherished memories of coming-of-age on the Syracuse campus and of coaching two Olympic gold medalwinning teams, Bleeding Orange is a must-read both for Syracuse fans and anyone who calls himself or herself an aficionado of college basketball history.