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  The Why is Everything. Michael Silver. A Story of Football, Rivalry and Revolution.  When we read about the game of football, the novel usually entails stories about people.  Football players and football coaches are people, interesting, driven and perhaps a touch crazy people as well.  There are a lot of moving parts in the game of football.   Coaches spend many long, arduous hours, days and years developing game/teaching theories and philosophies about the game.   Traditionally, historically players do as they are coached…. until they don’t.    The same can be said about young assistants in the new generation.   Players want to know the reasons and the assistants need to be able to explain it.   Author Michael Silver, in his latest book, attempts to address how “The Why is Everything”.    Inside the reader will be introduced to many characters but mostly NFL assistant coaches.   In es...

    The Black Fives.    Claude Johnson.    The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era.     Not all books live up to their cover or billing.    However, there is a lot to like about this “groundbreaking” effort and with that much to glean, process and unpack throughout the journey of reading this “trove” of information.   The stories, characters, the events telling the emergence of basketball as a legitimate and popular sport in the northeast and ultimately national landscape while taking shape and form in the late 19 th and early 20 th century.     While the main topic of this opus is the game of basketball, hence the title The Black Fives , this is every bit as much a tale of black history or American history likely left behind in most school history curriculums.   Author Claude Johnson, a historian, a foundation founder and successful business executive, dives deep into the rich history of how and...