"A memoir about Scott's fight against cancer"--

He’s one of the most interesting American athletes in the past fifty years. Passionate, candid, iconoclastic, and gifted both on and off the court, Charles Barkley has made a lasting impact on not only the world of basketball but pop culture at large. Yet few people know the real Charles. Raised by his mother and grandmother in Leeds, Alabama, he struggled in his early years to fit in until he found a sense of community and purpose in basketball....

The famed Super Bowl sportscaster shares personal stories from his life and career, describing his work in and out of the shadow of his legendary sportscaster father Jack Buck, and his marriage to sportscaster Michelle Beisner.

In this heartfelt, gripping autobiography, sports broadcaster Ernie Johnson provides a remarkably candid look at his life both on and off the screen. From his relationship with his sportscaster father to his own rise to the top of sports broadcasting, from battling cancer to raising six children with his wife, Cheryl, including a special needs child adopted from Romania, Ernie has taken the important lessons he learned and passed them on to his own...

"Growing up, Pat O'Brien was the skinny Midwestern kid with the divorced parents and the alcoholic father ... His life was unceremonious--until he was picked up in [a] student center by a professor who envisioned his future as the household television name he would become. From that day forward, Pat's life became anything but ordinary: from afternoons in the late Bobby Kennedy's living room with Muhammad Ali, to Rangers games in President Bush's suite,...

"When Lesley was 11, she told her mother that she wanted to be a sportswriter. The job didn't exist for women in 1964, but her mother-instead of suggesting she become a teacher or a nurse-replied, "Great! Sometimes you have to cross when it says, 'Don't walk." That answer changed Lesley's life. Even though no one had done it before, it gave her the strength and self-confidence to try-permission to cross against the light. When Lesley began, the credentials...