Marilyn Dahl, book review editor, Shelf Awareness So let the games and the reading commence. Fun and easy, but if your favorite animal is a honeybee, you are doomed. In retaliation, I told him I'd already completed mine.
Monday night my husband was filling out his brackets in bed out loud while I was trying to sleep. It's good sportswriting and starts: "The truth? The truth is Mike Krzyzewski liked the shape of her legs." And if you can't get enough of Duke, try The Krzyzewskiville Tales by Aaron Dinin-demented sports fans à la The Canterbury Tales. That 1992 game is considered by many to be the best NCAA game in history. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball by Gene Wojciechowski. Eliza Rosenberry from Blue Rider Press e-mailed about their recent title, The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Axthelm parallels the 1969-70 Madison Square Garden world of the New York Knicks with the asphalt playgrounds of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The City Game, the classic by Pete Axthelm, was mentioned by Kathy Johnson. Set in a small, dying town on Montana, it's the story of a losing (0-93) team, a reluctant coach and a very tall, bewildered exchange student it's also a story of hope and bravery. My additional choice (how could I have forgotten it?) is the novel Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West. Two people-Doris Baker and John Van Haalen-touted My Losing Season by Pat Conroy, the memoir of his senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs, and how, despite a losing season, a team came together in love and friendship. It's out-of-print, so check your library. Aaron Talwar likes Inside Moves by Todd Walton, the story of a friendship between a Vietnam vet and a basketball player with a bum leg. After Tuesday's article about the dearth of good basketball books, several people sent in their favorite titles.
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