For about 14 years of that time, I augmented my game coverage with a series of feature columns, Sports Talk, that focused more on the athletes than the games and on storytelling about those athletes.
Thirty-five of those columns have been collected in book form for the first time and for one more day, that e-book, The Best of Sports Talk, is available as a free Amazon Kindle download.
The book's Amazon page includes this description of some of the features that are included in the book:
-A football coach meets an eight-year-old girl who is permanently in a wheelchair because of a drunk driver
-A cheerleader talks about her aunt, Nancy Cruzan, and the right-to-die case that went to the U. S. Supreme Court
-A mother watches her daughter play her final high school volleyball match
-The high school coach who murdered his wife and then committed suicide
-A football legend returns to his home town after 25 years to be honored
-The baseball great who fanned five Hall-of-Famers in a row
-The high school girl who received her first kiss in front of 1,500 fans
-A high school basketball player teaches Haitian children how to play the sport
-A town tries to cope with the suicide of a football player
-He played in one of the greatest Cotton Bowl games of all time, but this legend is stirred more by a high school rivalry
-Family and friends help a basketball player whose house burns to the ground
-On the day she was expected to lead her team to the state volleyball championship, funeral services are held for a star athlete
-After an ACLU threat bans a pre-game prayer over the public address system, a community gathers in the end zone to pray
-A football player overcomes a near-fatal accident to receive a college scholarship.
The Best of Sports Talk relives the joys and sorrows of sports and of the people who participate in them.
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