Balls
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Nanci Kincaid.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Football coaches -- Alabama -- Family relationships -- Fiction; Married people -- Alabama -- Fiction; Coaches' spouses -- Fiction; Birmingham (Ala.) -- Fiction
Description: Balls is the story of a college football coach's fall from grace. Told by the women whose lives he changes, Balls should be required reading for any woman who's ever been involved with a man who's involved with sports.

You might say that Balls is the story of a coach's kick-off, his first, second, and third downs ... and his punt. But this coach's story belongs to the coach's wife, Dixie Gibbs, and to his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, his assistants' wives, his players' mothers, girlfriends, and grandmothers. It's the women standing behind handsome Coach Mac Gibbs who know - and tell - the secrets the sports page headlines leave out.

They see football as it really is - sexy, dirty, sweaty, painful, empowering, tainted. And the spin they put on the whole enterprise is ironic, often funny, and not always pretty, as the view from deep inside rarely is.