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The Big Dance. The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Wilner, Barry; Rappoport, Ken
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Paperback. Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, "March Madness" has become an American phenomenon. This is the story of the tournament, from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as an eight-team "bracket" to today's sixty-eight-team format-from "Cinderella" teams, to perennial powerhouses, to buzzer-beaters, upsets, and dynasties. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, “March Madness” has become an American phenomenon as anticipated as the Super Bowl. This is the story of the tournament from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as just an eight-team “bracket” to today’s sixty-eight-team format. From the “Cinderella” teams like Butler and Gonzaga to perennial powerhouses such as UCLA and Kentucky, covering buzzer-beaters, upsets, and dynasties, the story of one of the most-followed sporting events in history is comprehensively told here.
Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, “March Madness” has become an American phenomenon as anticipated as the Super Bowl. This is the story of the tournament from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as just an eight-team “bracket” to today’s sixty-eight-team format. From the “Cinderella” teams like Butler and Gonzaga to perennial powerhouses such as UCLA and Kentucky, covering buzzer-beaters, upsets, and dynasties, the story of one of the most-followed sporting events in history is comprehensively told here.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781589796218
SKU
V9781589796218
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About Wilner, Barry; Rappoport, Ken
Barry Wilner has been a sports writer for the Associated Press since 1975. He has covered virtually every major sporting event, including twelve Olympics, nine World Cups, twenty-six Super Bowls, the World Series, and the Stanley Cup finals, and has written thirty-nine books. He lives in Garnerville, N.Y. Ken Rappoport is the author of more than fifty sports ... Read more
Reviews for The Big Dance. The Story of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
The Big Dance is a great chance to hear and learn from the sport's best teachers—John Wooden, Coach K, Pat Summitt, Geno Auriemma—and hear the opinions of a man who helped make the game so popular: Dickie V. And I'm on page 163.
Jim O'Connell, The Associated Press ...[S]erves as a nice primer for the 2012 tournament...
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Jim O'Connell, The Associated Press ...[S]erves as a nice primer for the 2012 tournament...
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