Tag: Basketball
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New & Noteworthy for Winter 2014
Winter 2014
After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness by David J. Leonard SUNY Press, 2012 ::
After a brawl at a Pistons-Pacers game in 2004, the NBA adopted
policies to govern black players and prevent them from embracing styles
and persona...
Categories: Cultural studies, Poetry, Anthropology
Tags: African Americans, Basketball, Southwest United States
We Are the Bus
Summer 2013
This small book of poetry plays on themes of reminiscence, travel,
and the bliss of simple things like being a boy with a Racket Box full
of fireworks. This collection of 42 poems won the 2011 X.J. Kennedy
Poetry Prize.
In it McKean transports...
Categories: Poetry
Tags: Basketball, Memory
New & Noteworthy
Winter 2011
Standing Above the
Crowdby James
“Dukes” Donaldson ’79
Aviva Publishing , New York,
2011Donaldson mines
his experiences as a former
Cougar basketball and
NBA star, entrepreneur,
mentor, and community
leader not just to tell his
own st...
Categories: Business, Memoirs, Fiction
Tags: Management, Basketball, Organization, Fantasy, FBI
Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports
Winter 2005
Poetry in motion he wasn’t. At least not on the basketball court, even though 6’ 9” Jim McKean, his fadeaway jump shot, and his rebounding (he still holds the single-game Far West Classic rebounding record of 27, set against Princeton in 1967) ...
Categories: Memoirs, Athletics
Tags: Basketball