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The best sportswriter in the whole world — sorry, Buzz Aldrin! — Kyle Whelliston, has a book deal. I couldn’t be happier for him. Also with a book deal: Doree Shafrir, former PW A&E editor and one of the people who helped guide this blog in the beginning.
Shafrir’s book is from her Postcards from Yo Momma while Whelliston’s just sounds in-freaking-credible:
I plan to chronicle my 2008-09 season on the road, as I travel to and between over 100 Division I games. Along the way, we’ll stop by hallowed halls like Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse and Penn’s Palestra. We’ll meet head coaches on the rise, as well as on career declines and rebounds. We’ll visit with student section superfans and explore their odd rituals, and reveal heated local rivalries often overlooked by the national media. Invariably, a previously unknown school will leap into the limelight as a surprise nationally-ranked instant powerhouse. We’ll discover players who go from unknowns to legends in a single episode of March Madness. And as winter turns to spring, small towns across America will become transformed, as tiny local colleges achieve berths in America’s ultimate college sports showcase, the NCAA Tournament.
I’d like to remind any editors out there that I run a blog and if you pay me money to do a book or something, I will fill my apartment with Chuck E. Cheese tokens and swim in it á la Scrooge McDuck.
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