Bob Cairns
The often hilarious, often touching, always significant life of one of sport's great personalities. V&Me: Everybody's Favorite Jim Valvano Story takes readers inside V's inner circle for all the laughs, lights, cameras and action. The stories are all here--from the inside-the-huddle magic to the genius, hype and hysterics of his inspirational half-time speeches. The more than 250 lively stories drop you into the action of a life that ran at warp speed, one ABC Sports' Terry Gannon called, "like being at a heavyweight fight!." Filled with great big game moments, but at times in V&Me the basketball merely bounces in the background. V meets the President, dines with Bill Cosby, suits up with the LA Dodgers, trades barbs with Bob Hope and crawls in the ring with Muhammad Ali. This book chronicles Valvano's in-credible life from his goal-oriented New York childhood to the Cinderella run for the NCAA basketball championship and then, finally, his highly publicized, heroic fight against cancer.
V & Me: Everybody's Favorite Jim Valvano