Melissa Isaacson

State: A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation

Sprecher: Isaacson, Melissa

• MP3-CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Findaway World
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 600 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781799726685
• Artikelnr.: 57576048

Autorenporträt

Melissa Isaacson is an award-winning sportswriter, author, and public speaker. In more than thirty years on the job, she has covered every major US sports championship as well as the Olympics. She has written for numerous publications, including long tenures at such institutions as ESPN and the Chicago Tribune. She was the Tribune¿s first woman columnist and beat writer on the Bulls and Bears, and she covered the Michael Jordan¿led Bulls over their six NBA titles. She is currently on the faculty of Northwestern¿s Medill School of Journalism and lives in the Chicago area.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Chapter 1: Our Coach Chapter 2:
Well, I guess I
ll go try sports
Chapter 3: Grovers and Wooders and Billy Schnurr Chapter 4: Inappropriate Cheering and the Half-Court Shot Chapter 5:
Son, son, get up!
Chapter 6: New Beginnings, New Rituals Chapter 7: Shirley
s Arm, Bridget
s Face, and Mighty Hinsdale South Chapter 8: Dark Secrets Chapter 9: Fun with Concussions and Those Weird Lumps Chapter 10: Addition by Subtraction Chapter 11: Having It All Chapter 12: The Mighty Susies and Other Technicalities Chapter 13: The Ultimate Slap Chapter 14: Saturday Night Fever and a Champaign Hangover Chapter 15: Big Whip Chapter 16: Safe Haven Chapter 17: Earl
s Girls Chapter 18: Dreidl, Dreidl, Dreidl Chapter 19: Let It Snow Chapter 20: Perfect Shmerfect Chapter 21: Joy Is . . . Chapter 22: Why Not Us? Chapter 23: April Fools Epilogue