Richard Phelps - Basketball For Dummies

Basketball For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Richard Digger Phelps with John Walters and Tim Bourret

Basketball For Dummies, 3rd Edition

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About the Authors

Richard Digger Phelps is the renowned basketball coach from Notre Dame, where he won more games than any coach in the schools history. He led Notre Dame to 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, including the schools only Final Four appearance in 1978. He also coached one year at Fordham where he guided the program to a 26-3 record and NCAA appearance in 1970-71. He is still the co-holder of the NCAA record for victories over number one teams with seven. Since 1994 he has been a college basketball analyst for ESPN.

John Walters is a writer at The Daily, an iPad-only national publication. He was a reporter and staff writer at Sports Illustrated for 14 years and won two Sports Emmys for his work at NBC Sports at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. He was nominated for a Sports Emmy in 2006 for his work on Olympic Ice at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He is the author of, besides this book, The Same River Twice and Notre Dame Golden Moments .

Special contributor Tim Bourret is the Sports Information Director at Clemson University in South Carolina. In 33 years at the school he has edited over 100 publications that have won national and regional awards, including 15 that deal with basketball. He is also the color commentator on the Clemson Basketball Radio Network. Bourret, a Double Domer (1977 and 78), has followed Digger Phelpss career since 1974, when he was one of the 11,000 Notre Dame fans who stormed the court after the Fighting Irish ended UCLAs 88-game winning streak. book

Dedication

To those who have been a part of my basketball life.

Richard Digger Phelps

To my mom and dad who taught me to love sports for all the right reasons.

Tim Bourret

Thanks to Tim B. and the staff at Starbucks and Cosi for the free WiFi.

John Walters

Authors Acknowledgments

From Digger Phelps: To John Walters, Tim Bourret, and Rose Pietrzak, the writing team, as well as Team Wiley, for all your efforts to make this book become a reality. This book is all about teams and how they work together, and our South Bend-Chicago-Indianapolis team proved that the team concept really works!

From John Walters: Thanks to my managing editor Bill Colson, senior editor Dick Friedman, and the rest of the editors at Sports Illustrated for their patience. Also, to the indefatigable Sports Illustrated Library staff, especially Linda Wachtel. To Ted Lovick, the best basketball coach that I ever played for. To my parents, William and Phyllis, the former of whom never backed down from a game of one-on-one. And to my brother, George: Youll beat me one of these days.

From Tim Bourret: To my proofreading parents, Chuck and Irene Bourret. To my good friend (Saint) Rose Pietrzak, who transcribed endless conversations between myself and Digger. Rose is now an expert on Notre Dame basketball of the 1970s and 1980s. To Bob Bradley, my Clemson mentor, who provided many an interesting college basketball anecdote from his over 40 years in college athletics. To Larry Shyatt, Dan Ahearn, Rick Barnes, Dennis Felton, Craig Miller, Steve Nelson, Reno Wilson, and Todd Wright for providing input for various chapters of this book. To Matt Cashore and Bob Waldrop for taking the photos in this book, and Merl Code, Gene Brtalik, R. C. Deer, Justin Dunn, Mike Empey, Chris Hogan, Ben Murphy, Willie MacKey, Stephen Tessier, and Gabe Thompson for being in the photos. To Mike Danch, Mike Enright, and John Heisler for helping to set up the photo shoot at Notre Dame. And to my army of assistants in the Clemson Sports Information Office who spent off hours typing and researching: Brett Berg, Sam Blackman, Marsha Byers, Adair Clairy, Brian Hennessey, Jeff Martin, Meredith Merritt, Amy Moore, Will Peeler, Brenda Rabon, Emily Rabon, Brett Sowell, Preston Greene, Philip Sikes, and Heath Bradley.