β Scribed by Nanci Kincaid
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Set in Alabama, this is a "funny, entertaining novel about college football coaches and the women who love them" (Library Journal).
Balls is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern college football coachβtold by his wife and the many other women in his orbit, from his mother, mother-in-law, and daughter to the girlfriends and grandmothers who watch from the sidelines, cheering, worrying, and praying when the players are carried off on stretchers.
It's the women standing behind this handsome football hero who tell the story of Mac Gibbs, star quarterback, who married the beautiful homecoming queen, Dixie Carraway. Set in the home state of the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant, the novel relates the tale of Mac's fame as a college playerβand eventual infamy as head coach of the Birmingham University Black Bears. They don't care much for the "science" of the gameβor its brutality. They see football as it really is:...
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