Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball

by Ira Berkow (Editor), Ira Berkow (Foreword by)

Overview

Best-selling "New York Times" writer Ira Berkow presents a unique look at America's premier sport and its fans through interviews with a remarkable cross section of widely known and extraordinarily accomplished individuals in a variety of fields, who explain what the lure of basketball is for them. Berkow talked with Chris Rock, Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Saul Bellow, Johnnie Cochran Jr., Walter Matthau, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Trump, Julia Child, Frank Stella, Erica Jong, Grover Washington Jr., Seiji Ozawa, and Sharon Stone, among others, to uncover fresh, funny, controversial, and often surprising opinions about the teams and players who make the game intriguing."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803262294
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	10/01/2004
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ira Berkow is a sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times and has won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. He has written numerous books, including The Minority Quarterback, and Other Lives in Sports and most recently a memoir, To the Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life.

Editorial Reviews

“Berkow might be the Phil Jackson of basketball writers. . . . [A] lively, coherent collection that not only provides fascinating insights into the game but reveals surprising information about the celebrities.”—Boston Globe

Boston Globe

“Wonderful reading.”—Booklist

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“Wonderful reading.”—Booklist

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