num_pages: 224
description: The Divine Nature of My Season Inside the Ivy League describes a season spent as a virtual coach in the Ivy League. Shadowing head coach of Yale mens basketball James Jones and bird-dogging his team from first practice to final game Ed Breslin fulfills every college basketball fans fantasy of being an NCAA Division I coach.Its sports journalism in the tradition of George Plimpton. But above all its a celebration of basketball of participation in life of gifted mentors and coaches and of the proper approach to collegiate athletics.And all this in the throwback Ivy League. Where lofty academic requirements merge with high athletic standards. Where every game is an intense and ancient rivalry. Where no league tournament renders the regular season meaningless. Where nearly all league games are played two-a-weekend. Where back-to-back games and five-hour bus trips make for weary legs and heartbreaking upsets. Where coaches have to be teachers and mentors first and foremost.Over the course of the season Breslin comes to understand that its coaches like James Jones their priorities in order who realize that lessons learned in sport are often enduringly important and transferable to other areas of life. They know that the game of basketball invented in a YMCA gym to vanquish winter blues and channel excess energy is a divine template for teaching and mentoring. They know that mastery of a demanding skill in youth and of ones self often leads to mastery in adult in the arts in the sciences in the professions and in business.The author experienced all this and more firsthand. But the most important lesson he learned is that if you ever visit the Yale locker room whatever else you Dont step on the Y.Skyhorse Publishing as well as our Sports Publishing imprint are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball pro football college football pro and college basketball hockey or soccer we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats Louisville Cardinals UCLA Bruins or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins Toronto Maple Leafs Montreal Canadiens or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
language: English
title: The Divine Nature of Basketball: My Season Inside the Ivy League
publisher: Sports Publishing