Long Shot - Rory Fanning, Craig Hodges

Long Shot

The Struggles and Triumphs of an NBA Freedom Fighter
Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2017
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-607-8 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
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Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power.
From Michael Jordan to George Bush Sr., Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power and it cost him dearly. In the prime of his career Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as professional athlete to stand up against racism and economic exploitation. In this well-told, passionate, and historically literate memoir, Hodges shares the stories to include his encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R Kelly, Michael Jordan and more of his life-long crusade to improve the conditions for African Americans.

Craig Hodges played in the NBA for ten seasons, in which he led the league in three-point shooting percentage three times. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in 1991 and 1992, and is a three-time Three Point Contest champion at All-Star weekend. Rory Fanning walked across the United States for the Pat Tillman Foundation in 2008–2009, following two deployments to Afghanistan with the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion. He is the author of Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger's Journey Out of the Military. Dave Zirin is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN, and Democracy Now! He hosts WPFW's The Collision with Etan Thomas and has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sport Ballsport Basketball
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-60846-607-8 / 1608466078
ISBN-13 978-1-60846-607-8 / 9781608466078
Zustand Neuware
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