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  Every Shot Counts.    Carlos Boozer. A Memoir of Resilience. It is not that unusual for an accomplished professional athlete to write a story about their life after they finish playing their respective sport.    What might be extraordinary, though, is when that athlete possesses a unique background and has experienced as many challenges as has Carlos Boozer in his forty some years.     In his book, Every Shot Counts , Boozer talks about his distinctive upbringing, his attraction to the sport of basketball and how it led to being a prep, college and ultimately a professional all-star. Early on in the story Boozer reveals some personal thoughts of what happened in his early childhood while living in Washington D. C.     It became a driving force of motivation and inspiration to eventually play basketball at the highest level, that being the National Basketball Association.    The experience was evidently one Boozer k...

    The Right Call.    Sally Jenkins What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life .   Can sports teach us about our work experiences and practices?    Furthermore, can sports teach us about life in general?    Regardless of your answer, Best Selling author Sally Jenkins attempts to do that in her book The Right Call .    Through the author, her extensive sports writing experience and immense writing talents try to connect a series of principles to great decision making in the arena or in the work place. What augments this book are the numerous contacts that Jenkins has been afforded over her lengthy and award-winning career.    Whether it is Notable athletes such as Tom Brady, Michael Phelps or NFL coach Andy Reid, to name a few, or so many others, the book connects the reader to experiences witnessed in sports that often parallels what we encounter in life.     However, Jenkins range of research is not lim...