Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Florida, living room while watching a 2006 ESPN report on the Barrow Whalers, a high school football team consisting mostly of Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo native
The Punch- One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
โ Scribed by Feinstein, John
- Book ID
- 107194450
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
When an on-court fight broke out between the Houston Rockets and the LA Lakers just before Christmas 1977, Rudy Tomjanovitch raced to break it up. He was met by Kermit Washington's fist. This is the story of how one punch changed two lives, the NBA and how we think about basketball, forever.
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