Bob Casciola is the former president of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, a 14-year tenure in which he oversaw the Play It Smart program and the implementation of the NFL/NFF Coaching Academy, which annually educates more than 10,000 youth coaches. A member of that Hall of Fame himself, Bob had previously served as head coach both of Princeton University and the University of Connecticut, and served for 3 years as assistant coach to Hall of Fame head coach Bob Blackman at Dartmouth, in addition to a stint broadcasting college football games. In 2004, the NFF honored Bob with its Distinguished American Award, previously given to Vince Lombardi and Pete Rozelle. Bob Casciola currently lives in the Scottsdale, Arizona, area. Jon Land is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of 44 books, including nine titles in the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series, and has taken over writing as Jessica Fletcher in the MURDER SHE WROTE series. He is also the author of three acclaimed works of nonfiction, Takedown (2016), the bestsellerBetrayal (2011), both of which won the International Book Award for True Crime, and No Surrender (2017) which won the American Book Fest Award in the Christian Inspirational category. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and can be reached at jonlandbooks.com or on Twitter @jondland.
