Play their hearts out a coach, his star recruit, and the youth basketball machine

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann's remarkable debut offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality hiding behind the romanticized hoop dreams of America's basketball prodigies.

Main Author: Dohrmann, George.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Balantine Books, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann's remarkable debut offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality hiding behind the romanticized hoop dreams of America's basketball prodigies.
Physical Description: 422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780345508607 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0345508602 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes: " George Dohrmann is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the magazine's investigative reporter. In 2000, while working at the St. Paul Pioneer Press , he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered a college basketball team's academic fraud. Dohrmann lives in San Francisco with his family. This is his first book."