Ryan Thorburn

Cowboy Up

Kenny Sailors, the Jump Shot and Wyoming Basketball History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cowboy Up As the dark clouds of World War II were looming on the horizon, an American original named Kenny Sailors was capturing the attention of the country and leading the University of Wyoming basketball program on an astonishing run to the NCAA championship. Sailors, pioneer of the modern jump shot, took New York's Madison Square Garden by storm while leading the Cowboys to a national championship. Before the confetti was cleaned up, the All-American was off to war. The Wyoming treasure would return to campus in Laramie and later became one of the NBA's early stars. Cowboy Up weaves the brilliant tapestry of Wyoming's rich hoops history -- from the program's original championship team of the 1930s to high-soaring Flynn Robinson and the dazzling Fennis Dembo -- around Sailors' remarkable story. If you love basketball history, then you need to get acquainted with Sailors and the golden age of the Cowboys.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burning Daylight
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780984652303
• ISBN-10: 0984652302
• Artikelnr.: 34161531

Autorenporträt

Thorburn is currently a reporter for The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) covering Oregon Ducks football. He was named the national beat writer of the year by the APSE for 2017. He previously covered the Denver Broncos and Colorado Buffaloes for The Boulder Camera and authored three Wyoming-based books - The Black 14, Lost Cowboys and Cowboy Up.