The Sweet Season - A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at

Zusatztext Fun to read! enlivened by Murphy's penchant for humor and knack for dead-on descriptions Informationen zum Autor Austin Murphy is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated . He lives in northern California with his wife and their two children. Klappentext After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer, pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos, Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come, he concludes, to fly beneath the radar of big-league sports, to while away a season with the Johnnies. So, he moves his family to the middle of Minnesota to chronicle a season at St. John's, a Division III program that has reached unparalleled success under the unorthodox guidance of John "Gags" Gagliardi. The Sweet Season is an account of what happens when a family pulls up stakes and spends months in a strange and wonderful place. It is also, not incidentally, the story of the most incredible football program in the country, run by a smiling sage who has forgotten more about the game than most of his peers will ever know. Zusammenfassung After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer! pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos! Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come! he concludes! to fly beneath the radar of big-league sports! to while away a season with the Johnnies. So! he moves his family to the middle of Minnesota to chronicle a season at St. John's! a Division III program that has reached unparalleled success under the unorthodox guidance of John "Gags" Gagliardi. The Sweet Season is an account of what happens when a family pulls up stakes and spends months in a strange and wonderful place. It is also! not incidentally! the story of the most incredible football program in the country! run by a smiling sage who has forgotten more about the game than most of his peers will ever know. ...

Product details

• Authors: Austin Murphy
• Publisher: It Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2002
• EAN: 9780060505844
• ISBN: 978-0-06-050584-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Baseball, American Football, Memoirs, history of sport, Sport: general, True war and combat stories, Sports training and coaching, Biography: historical, political and military, Higher education, tertiary education, SPORTS & RECREATION: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION: Baseball / History, SPORTS & RECREATION: Football, SPORTS & RECREATION: Coaching / Football, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Military, SPORTS & RECREATION: Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION: Shooting, SPORTS & RECREATION: College Recruiting, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, Target shooting