book review Stories - Rocky Top Talk
Moskowitz and Wertheim's Scorecasting
There's a good example of how big the book Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt simply in the location where I picked it up: late one sleepless night in a Mumbai apartment I was staying at over Christmas, 2007. This was a couple of years after the book had first come out, true, but it...
Belue to Scott!: The Dawg Sports Book Review of Robbie Burns's Recounting of the Play That Won the Georgia Bulldogs the 1980 National Championship
Shortly before the 2010 edition of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, I had the opportunity to interview Robbie Burns, the author of Belue to Scott!: The Greatest Moment in Georgia Football History (H&H Publishing Company, 2010). I since have had the opportunity to get my hands on a copy,...
Rafe Bartholomew's Pacific Rims
One of the downsides of blogging all official-like for SB Nation is that I get quite a few press releases e-mailed to me. PR-types just love to send anything tangentially sports-related to me and everyone else whose e-mail addresses they can get their hands on. Most of it is thoroughly ignorable,...
Seth Davis's When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball
Way back in February, a publicity group offered to send me a copy of the paperback edition of Seth Davis's book on Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and the 1979 NCAA championship game. I jumped at the chance, figuring I'd have a long month ahead of me in March with nothing happening on the college...
Review: Draft Season - Four Months on the Clock (What It's Like Preparing for the NFL Draft)
In the interest of full disclosure, I recently received a copy of Draft Season - Four Months on the Clock from author Bobby Deren who was kind enough to autograph it for me. Deren is a senior writer for Rivals.com. He also makes frequent radio and television appearances, sharing his expertise...
Review: The Pro Football Historical Abstract (And A Look At Football Statistics)
(CN community members note - I'll be reviewing college football books again this off-season. They obviously won't be all about Nebraska, but I believe that Husker fans more than anyone are students of the game of college football. I certainly am.) A while back, like before the beginning of the...
Roy Williams' Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court
A little while before last week's release date, I got an e-mail from Algonquin Books asking if I'd like to review Roy Williams' biography. I said sure, and soon enough I was taking a copy out of my mailbox and placing it on the bedside table. It promptly sat there for a week and a half, as my free...
Review: When March Went Mad: the Game That Transformed Basketball
The title of When March Went Mad: the Game That Transformed Basketball is misleading. It's not a book about the 1979 NCAA Basketball Championship Game between Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores and Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans, which is still the highest-rated college basketball game...
Bruce Feldman's Meat Market: the Big Orange perspective
‘Tis National Signing Day Eve, 2009, and fatigued high school football players all over the nation will dream tonight of text messages, fax machines, and NFL draft days. Tomorrow, internet recruiting sites will bow and creak under the weight of 100 million hits from fans...
Review: The Maisel Report - College Football's Most Overrated & Underrated
Note: One of the things readers asked for is consistency. From now on during the off-season we'll be providing reviews on Monday. This will include author interviews as well. I truly hope you enjoy these, because I'm still a book guy. There is so much of our sports that simply cannot be explored in...
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