Media Heat: Basketball Beyond the Courts
This morning on the Today Show: Steve McKee, author of My Father's Heart (Da Capo Lifelong Books, $25, 9780738210971/0738210978).
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Today on The View: Jeff Foxworthy, author of Dirt on My Shirt (Random House, $16.99, 9781400065578/1400065577).
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Today on KCRW's Bookworm: Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book (Viking, $25.95, 9780670018215/067001821X).
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Today on the Dianne Rehm Show: NPR's Scott Simon, author of Windy City (Random House, $25, 9781400065578/1400065577).
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Today on Talk of the Nation: C. Vivian Stringer, coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team and author of Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph (Crown, $24.95, 9780307406095/0307406091).
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Tomorrow on NPR's On Point: Jim Hightower, author of Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow (Wiley, $25.95, 9780470121511/0470121513).
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This Sunday at 9 p.m. on ESPN: the first two hours of the four-hour documentary Black Magic, about basketball at black colleges and universities before integration (right after the NCAA selection show). The last two hours will air on ESPN at 9 p.m. on Monday.
Featured prominently in Black Magic: legendary basketball coach John McLendon and Milton Katz, author of Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer (University of Arkansas Press, $29.95, 9781557288479/155728847X).
For some background on the book and Black Magic, run downcourt to this Hartford Courant story.
