Vito J. Leo

Sudden Death: UConn Football's 2009-2010 Improbable Odyssey (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For the UConn football team, the 2009 season offered the usual share of blood and sweat - but way, way too many tears.

Chronicling the tumultuous 2009-2010 seasons, the book focuses on emotional hardships on and off the field - including a beloved teammate's burial, heartbreaking last-minute losses, heartwarming redemption sagas, an historic victory at historic Notre Dame, police investigations, a national award for courageousness, an improbable appearance in a top-tier bowl game and a New Year's Day surprise on national TV- culminating with the head coach deserting his team on a desert tarmac without so much as a "See ya, guys."

This book is dedicated to a fine young man, Jasper "Jazz" Howard, an NFL prospect who'd escaped his Miami community's mayhem only to be murdered on a serene street in Storrs in the shadow of the larger-than-life statue of the school mascot during Homecoming weekend.

The night before, Jazz and his expectant fiancée had finally chosen their baby's name; sadly, by sunrise this infant-in-the-womb would now have a name.…but would no longer have a father to call her by it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: VITO J. LEO
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393997269
• Artikelnr.: 58450475

Autorenporträt

Vito's journalism journey jumpstarted in small-town Connecticut where he was raised Italian Catholic and smitten by Yaz, Orr, Bill Russell and Y.A. Tittle. Reporting results of local football games as a teen eventually led to credentials for three Super Bowls during a 29-year writing career in the Boston-Hartford corridor. Clippings range from the sublime (Yastrzemski's Hall of Fame induction) to the ridiculous (Janet's wardrobe malfunction!). He's reported from such venerable venues as Yankee Stadium (old and new), Fenway Park (old, but good as new), Notre Dame Stadium, Madison Square Garden, Daytona Speedway and The Superdome.

Covering UConn sports for six years resulted in a reporter's rapport with players offering unique team insights. Veets says, "Those wonderful hours with the Huskies culminated in what I pray are wonderful hours of reading."