Lasting Impact: One Team, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football - Hardcover

Kennedy, Kostya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618931571 ISBN 13: 9781618931573

Publisher: Sports Illustrated, 2016

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Kostya Kennedy sets this captivating, character-rich story against the back-drop of one of the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play football? At the high end of America's most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and also an opaque enterprise under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its players. Then there's high school football, unrivaled for the crucial life lessons it imparts-discipline, leadership, cooperation, humility, perseverance-yet also a brain-rattling, bone-breaking game whose consequences are at best misunderstood, and, at the very worst, deadly. What is the parent of a young athlete to make of that?

The New Rochelle High School team in suburban New York is like many across the country: a source of civic pride, a manhood workshop for a revered coach and an emotional proving ground for boys of widely different backgrounds. In the fall of 2014, New Rochelle's season unfolded alongside watershed NFL head injury revelations and domestic abuse cases (remember Ray Rice?), as well as fatalities on nearby fields.

The dramatic story of that season, for players, parents and coaches, underscores fundamental questions. Are football's inherent risks so great that the sport may not survive as we know it? Or are those risks worth the rewards that the game continues to bestow, and that can stay with a young man for a lifetime?

About this title

From the Author:

KOSTYA KENNEDY, is the author of 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports and Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. Both were New York Times Bestsellers and both earned the Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of its respective year. A former senior writer and assistant managing editor at Sports Illustrated, he is now an editorial director at Time Inc. As an on-air commentator Kennedy contributes regularly to the MLB Network, MSNBC and other news outlets. He teaches at New York University's Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, and Business and has taught journalism at NYU and Columbia University. He has edited several books, including The Hockey Book and 2015's Super Bowl Gold: 50 Years of the Big Game.

About the Author:

Kostya Kennedy is a clinical assistant professor at NYU’s Tisch Institute of Sports Management, and the co-director, Research Initiatives at NYU Sports and Society. A former assistant managing editor and senior writer at Sports Illustrated, he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Pete Rose and 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, both of which won the CASEY Award as best baseball book of the year. He is a regular on-air contributor to the MLB Network, and the editor of several books. He lives with his wife and children in Westchester County, N.Y.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sports Illustrated
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1618931571
• ISBN 13: 9781618931573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256