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...most notable alum.) Crothers spent four all-access years with Dorrance and his players for this rich biography and tells the tale of an imperfect man who has shaped a near perfect program. Dorrance is at once a master motivator who writes touching letters to his players and invests himself in all aspects of their lives and a man described by former players and opposing coaches as "arrogant," "cruel" and even "evil." Crothers reaches a more benign conclusion, chalking up the harsh words to typical player-coach tensions and praising Dorrance for shaping an institution that has lifted women...
...terrific package on Teddy Roosevelt shows how T.R. helped create the modern presidency and even the paradigm of today's politics. I also want to pay tribute to those who created our Roosevelt issue. It was overseen by Priscilla Painton and Richard Lacayo, who was a superb player-coach and wrote two pieces for the issue. We commissioned pieces from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday morning, and it instantly became the endpiece...
...born bubbly, though he didn't take his act abroad until his college basketball career at Long Beach State ended, in 1988. At 6 ft. 2 in., he was too short to be an NBA prospect, so Ronzone played in leagues from Italy to the Philippines before becoming player-coach of New Zealand's Wonganui Wolfpack. Then, after an encounter with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he became the first head coach of the Saudi national team. "It was right after the Gulf War in '91, so I hesitated," he recalls. "Then the prince offered to triple my salary...
...early titans of the National Basketball Association, the youngest coach in its history and last commissioner of the defunct American Basketball Association; in New York City. DeBusschere, who was more than two meters tall, started his career with the Detroit Pistons in 1962 and was made player-coach for the team two years later, at the age of 24. In 1968, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he won the NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. As the Knicks' executive vice president, DeBusschere drafted the legendary Patrick Ewing in 1985. NBA Commissioner David Stern said...
Underneath the jokes is a relationship that has continued over the years and has gone beyond traditional player-coach boundaries...