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      Football’s Fearless Activists.     Mike Freeman. How Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills, and fellow Athletes stood up to the NFL and President Trump.    Mike Freeman is a veteran writer of more than 25 years and has been writing about sports and race related topics for various publications including Sportico, USA Today, New York Times and the Washington Post.     Freeman has extensive knowledge of football covering the NFL for more than two decades.    However, his forte is conflating sports, particularly football with the topic of race and inequality.     Football’s Fearless Activists is not reluctant in bringing those topics to the forefront in every chapter.   Written before former president Donald Trump was voted out of office in November 2020, the book features many characters.   However, the two main characters in this story are former NFL player (and chief fearless activist) ...

    Black Market.    Merl Code. An Insider’s Journey into the High-Stakes World of College Basketball.   Merl Code Jr. really does take the reader behind the scenes when it comes to how shoe companies conduct their business of promoting players and their vast assortment of products.      However, it is not truly accurate to suggest this book is strictly about college basketball.    Yes, Code Jr. was a ball player.    He had plenty of contact with pro prospects, as well players/coaches at both the college and high school level.     But the author was never a coach, administrator or analyst at the collegiate level.    What he did do was act as a consultant and executive for athletic shoe companies that were constantly pushing their new products to athletes across the nation in hopes of landing into the industry leading position.    We do learn in this edition that Code jr. was con...

      Play Makers.    Mike Florio. How the NFL Really Works (and doesn’t) Mike Florio has put together a descriptive compilation of his many National Football League thoughts, observations and experiences.       Inside, the football fan will be introduced to ten different sections including topics such as the draft, the owners, health & safety, free agency and perhaps the most interesting part about the future of the league as we may know it.    Each chapter within the sections averages about three pages in length.    Those sections contain no fewer than 10 chapters.     Florio, who owns and operates the Pro Football Talk website, keeps the topics within a twenty-year timeline since that is when he started covering the league in earnest.    Even within that time-frame there is no shortage of complex intricoes and issues.   The sections are well written, dutifully researched ...