Anybody read a good book lately?

[Zanshin]

Who the hell licks a hooker?

[Sgt PSN]

just finished play their hearts out, a book chronicling an AAU team from the time they started (10/11 years old) to their high school graduations.

ill keep it short: if you like basketball, even remotely, you need to read this book. unbelievable depth of reporting and detail about not only these kids' lives, but the disgusting AAU scene and the god-awful people who run it. weve all heard some stuff about this life and now here it is, clear as day.

i realize im on the wrong board trying to get people to talk hoops but this is easily the best sports book of the last decade.

Sounds kind of like a new, more in-depth Hoop Dreams....which was an excellent read.  Might have to check this one out. 

For some reason...you don't come across as a hoops-faring person.

That's because Todd only played AAJew ball. 

[MDS]

Sounds kind of like a new, more in-depth Hoop Dreams....which was an excellent read.  Might have to check this one out.

its sort of a remake of hoop dreams, very much in the same vein following these kids around. except hoop dreams was really before the AAU circuit took over the game, so in many ways its different. i cant recommend this book enough, its like 400 pages but itll go by quickly.

when are you going to write your own book on the aau tennis circuit?

at least those kids get paid a little bit. p.s. you especially need to read this book.

[ice grillin you]

i have zero interest in something like that

[hbionic]

Who the hell licks a hooker?

I went to a bachelor party that had two strippers....one stuck a lollipop in her cooch and one of the dudes grabbed it from her and stuck it in his mouth.

Bitch was dirty. And so was the stripper.

[MDS]

i have zero interest in something like that

why learn about something you dont know?

[ice grillin you]

cant know everything about everything so i gotta prioritize and aau basketball doent make the cut

[MDS]

it aint aau hoops, its hoops in general. but why do that when you can see horror movies and watch hockey.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I saw that too about the ESPN story. Supposedly a lot more salacious stories set to come out and Berman, Kolber and Erin Andrews are especially nervous per Deadspin.

[ice grillin you]

a book chronicling an AAU team from the time they started (10/11 years old) to their high school graduations.

it aint aau hoops

you sure?

a 400 page book about an aau hoops team sounds suicide inducing

[Diomedes]

please please read it

[ice grillin you]

im currently reading 'exit the rainmaker' about a well to do well known pillar of southern maryland society who in 1982 one day decided to just up and leave his family friends and life without notice to anyone...im not even half way thru but its great so far

[Zanshin]

I heard that you won't be able to put it down.

[MDS]

you sure?

a 400 page book about an aau hoops team sounds suicide inducing

of course its aau but its more than that, dingus. its the way in which every single bball player is brought up. if you want to know why kids are the way they are and want to know why the system is what it is, you can explore that. or you can just...read books about rich people from maryland.

I saw that too about the ESPN story. Supposedly a lot more salacious stories set to come out and Berman, Kolber and Erin Andrews are especially nervous per Deadspin.

already pre-ordered on amazon...i think its somewhere in the 15 buck range.

the erin stuff has be details about all her athletic cock hoggling.

[lurking wierdo]

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/new-childrens-book-go-the-f-to-sleep/