About the Author

RICK TELANDER is a Chicago Sun-Times senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for SLAM Magazine. Telander has been featured seven times in The Best American Sportswriting. He is the author of nine books, including Heaven is a Playground.

GLENN STOUT, series editor, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception in 1991.