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    Flip the Script.    Ed Orgeron with Bruce Feldman. Lessons Learned on the Road to a Championship.     Sometimes in life we get one chance to make our way in the world or prove we have what it takes to succeed.    However, Ed Orgeron, the author of this book, was fortunate to have a second chance to be a head coach at the major college level.     Flip the Script talks about his life and times, successes, failures and perseverance.   Brought up in Southeast, Louisiana, Orgeron is a true Cajun.     He came from mostly humble beginnings but managed to work his way as a football player to the premier state school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.   He used the game of football to forge a career when he finished his college eligibility taking on the role as a defensive coach at various schools.    Ultimately, the 1983 Northwestern State graduate lands a head coaching job by 2005 in the Southeaster...

Coach K.   The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski.    Ian O’Connor.   Some time ago in Chicago, Emily Krzyzewski gave some important motherly advice to her younger son.     She asserted that he be the driver of his own bus but be very careful in who he lets on for the ride.     That message seemed to resonate with the main character of the book, Coach K, throughout his career.    As biographies go, they are as interesting as the person being authored as well as the content the writer is able to produce.    Ian O’Connor delivers a robustly in-depth look at one of the nation’s best college basketball coaches and leaders of this generation. The story of former Duke basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, is complicated, intriguing, surprising and inspiring all at the same time.      O’Connor gets detailed in the coach’s upbringing in Chicago, his experiences as a student athlete in the US Military...

  Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Texas.     Nick Eatman A Year in the life of Lone Star Football, from High School to College to the Cowboys. It is a challenge for authors to cover a team during a season.     It is more difficult to cover two different teams in that same season.    It may even be unprecedented to cover three teams in the very same season.    But that is what author Nick Eatman did and wrote in his book, Friday, Saturday, Sunday in Texas.    Eatman, who has covered the Dallas Cowboys for more than 20 years, took advantage of his connections to follow and write about the seasons for a local high school, university and professional football team.    The high school is Plano, of Plano, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas.    The college is Baylor University located ninety minutes south in Waco, Texas.    The professional team is obviously the Dallas Cowboys, the franchise th...