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Did not teach one person the 3 months we were together. Herren is very open and honest in regard to telling the story of his problems with addiction and the hellish roads it took him down. Venice, fl 34285 best of venice 20032012 9414881810. Bill reynolds is a sports columnist for the providence journal and the author of several previous books, including fall river dreams and with rick pitino. The day new london and southeastern connecticut news. Wayne cornett 330 college street paintsville 6067893168. Were both college educated professionals with kids and lives outside of swinging. Academic scholarship on superheroes has grown recently, including edited anthologies equivalent to what is a superhero. Bill simmons has never met a paragraph he couldnt lengthen. Chris herren, durfee high school basketballs only 2,000point career scorerchris herren to1. Living on the edge helping christians live like christians. Chris herren is the founder of hoop dreams with chris herren, a basketball player development company. It wants you to be weak, kind of, because sometimes i think when youre strong and youre going through contact, they dont call the foul. Find books like basketball junkie from the worlds largest community of readers.
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His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city. Goodreads members who liked basketball junkie also liked. In this blunt, selfdeprecating memoir, herren tells his story as one of the greatest high school athletes to come out of southern new england. He was 185 cm 6 ft 1 in tall and weighed 178 kg 392 lb or 28 st in 1963, 317 kg 700 lb or 50 st in 1966 and 442 kg 975 lb or 69 st 9 lb in september 1976. Basketball junkie npr coverage of basketball junkie by chris herren and bill reynolds. News about detroit, as well as headlines and stories from around michigan. When i got traded to the celtics, i was so happy because i was back home and had grown up idolizing the celtics. Improve your basketball iq with breakthrough basketball. Buy basketball junkie by chris herren, bill reynolds online at alibris. I wasnt particularly good at either subject, and immature adolescence eventually gave way to a responsible life in avid pursuit of the american dream of.
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