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    Paterno Legacy.   Jay Paterno. Enduring Lessons from the Life and Death of My Father.   If you are a college football fan growing up in the state of Pennsylvania one learns quickly about the Pennsylvania State football program, culture, success and traditions.     One gets to know of former head coach Joe Paterno who coached at State College for sixty seasons, serving 45 of those years as the head coach.     Through all of those many wins, losses and experiences, coach Paterno hired one his sons, Jay, to help coach the football program.     He spent 17 seasons assisting his father, staff and Alma mater through some peak times and its nadir towards during the middle of the term.     That is the son’s story and this book has many lessons, experiences, tips and memories to share. Jay Paterno, one of five offspring to his father Joe and mother Sue Paterno, attended Penn State and was a member of th...

      Hometown Victory.    Keanon Lowe. A Coach’s, Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home.   This is an interesting story of a hometown area kid that made good on his high school academic and football opportunities suddenly returning home to give back to the community.     The author, Keanon Lowe, is a former Division I and NFL football player from Portland, Oregon.     Lowe also got into coaching as his playing days came to an end.     Even though he was a rising assistant coaching star in the NFL some setbacks and personal draw led him to eventually take over a moribund high school football program in the city where he once played prep ball. Lowe accepts the job and tackles the many upcoming challenges of a high school football program that had not won a game in several seasons.     Along the way he assembles a staff and writes about his trials and tribulations of regrouping a team of...

  The Kaepernick Effect.      Dave Zirin.   Taking a Knee, Changing the World.      Dave Zirin is well known as an outspoken critic of racism and social injustice.    This book, The Kaepernick Effect, continues that same theme.      The author captures the thoughts, feelings and experiences of young people and their more recent stories of protest.    The writer, who has authored myriad books including classic, Bad Sports , did extensive research in tracking down numerous high school prep, college, and some pro, athletes to discuss what the Kaepernick message from 2016/2017 meant to them.     The configuration of the book starts with the experiences of the high school athletes, then delves into the college player trials and tribulations and finally a few professional athletes weigh in with their affected feedback, too.    As one might imagine the levels of expressin...