Tales From The Virginia Tech Sideline

Author : Chris Colston
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1613210914
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Virginia Tech Sideline written by Chris Colston and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What started with a bunch of gangly teens playing ball on a plowed wheat field has become one of the most exciting powerhouses in college football history. Fans of this raucous and indomitable team get to relive all the great moments with this revised edition of Tales from the Virginia Tech Sideline. Virginia Tech alum and former editor of the Hokie Huddler Chris Colston shares the school's greatest football stories and anecdotes. From the days of Miles Stadium to Beamerball, fans will recapture all the excitement of the most well known games.

Author : Chris Colston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Virginia Tech Sidelines written by Chris Colston and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kim King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613217439
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline written by Kim King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reissue of Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline, former quarterback Kim King shares stories from his unique half-century involvement with Yellow Jackets football. As a child growing up in Atlanta, King watched Coach Bobby Dodd’s great Tech teams of the 1950s play in historic Grant Field. A highly recruited high school quarterback, King went to Tech and became the star quarterback from 1965–67. “The Young Left-Hander,” as late Tech radio announcer Al Ciraldo called King, led the Jackets to two bowl games and was Bobby Dodd’s last quarterback before he retired after the 1966 season. King’s involvement with Tech football did not end with his graduation. In 1974 he joined Ciraldo in the radio booth as Tech’s color commentator. In the book, he details Tech’s struggles after Dodd’s retirement; the colorful and turbulent Pepper Rodgers years; Bill Curry’s painful first coaching steps back at his alma mater before restoring Tech to prominence in the mid-’80s; and the two awful seasons Bobby Ross endured before the historic 1990 breakthrough, culminating in Georgia Tech’s fourth national championship. Following Bill Lewis’s disastrous tenure in the early ’90s, George O’Leary revived Tech football yet again before his controversial departure for Notre Dame led to Chan Gailey’s arrival on The Flats. Kim King saw many of the Jackets’ bowl victories and nearly 50 years of Tech football before his death in 2004. He shares those memories, along with his personal reminiscences of Tech players and coaches, triumphs and travails, in Tales from the Georgia Tech Sideline. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Mike Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613217919
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game of My Life Virginia Tech Hokies written by Mike Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Tech’s Shayne Graham trots onto the field at West Virginia on November 6, 1999, with two thoughts in his mind. One is a missed field goal that would have beaten Miami a year earlier. The other is the 44-yard field goal he is about to try against the Mountaineers, a kick he must make if the Hokies are to stay unbeaten and on track for a national championship. Head down, he focuses on his mark as the ball is snapped. He steps forward, the dream of an entire team resting with his leg. Now, hear Graham’s memory of that kick in his own words, for the first time. Game of My Life: Virginia Tech Hokies, first published in 2006, celebrates the extraordinary football and basketball moments that have shaped the college’s rich athletic heritage. Through interviews with some of the school’s most prestigious athletes, Hokies fans can relive the big games that defined the school’s winning tradition. Carroll Dale, later a fixture with the Green Bay Packers, dove—arms outstretched—to haul in a crucial two-point conversion in a 1957 game against the University of Richmond. Les Henson shot from the baseline—the other baseline—as the clock neared zero against Florida State in 1980. Chris Smith went well beyond the "double-double" standard for points and rebounds. How about 30 and 31 against Marshall in 1959? Corey Moore made life miserable for Clemson quarterback Brandon Streeter one night in 1999. Bruce Smith did the same for Duke quarterback Ben Bennett in 1983. The Hokies’ Jim Pyne, meanwhile, made sure Syracuse’s Kevin Mitchell didn’t do the same to Tech quarterback Maurice DeShazo in 1993. Carlos Dixon, Mike Imoh, Andre Davis, Dell Curry, Bryan Still, Don Strock, Bryan Randall—all the Tech greats from the gridiron and hardwood—are in these pages, including coach Frank Beamer. Join thousands of Virginia Tech fans in remembering these cherished stories. For the athletes within, these truly were the games of their lives. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Don Nehlen
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781596703384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline written by Don Nehlen and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man considered to be the most successful coach in West Virginia football history talks about his 21-year tenure in his own words. Nehlen gives the play by play for some of his biggest wins and most disappointing losses and muses about the future of college football.

Author : Chris Colston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall and Rise written by Chris Colston and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After flickers of hope, the Virginia Tech Hokies hit rock bottom in 1992. It was the best thing that ever happened to them. "Want a front-row seat to Virginia Tech's rise as a college football power? Chris Colston takes you there, with vivid, behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes about the Hokies' decades-long evolution. There isn't a more definitive and comprehensive history of Virginia Tech's transformation from football nomad to national title contender under Frank Beamer than this."--Andy Bitter, The Athletic. Colston's eight-volume series GO TECH GO: The Inside Story Behind the Rise of Virginia Tech Footballis designed for easy reading--perfect for your favorite mobile device. In Volume Five, The Beamer Bowl Era Begins (1993), Colston shares first-hand observations as the Hokies football program hit rock-bottom under Beamer--and then earned a bowl bid the following season. Told with entertaining, easy-to-read anecdotes, Colston details the most important hire the Hall-of-Fame Coach ever made--and talks to the players who lived through the transformation. "Riveting stuff," says Hall of Fame broadcaster Bill Roth. "Reads like a well-written novel. Essential for all Hokies, old and new." "The Inside Story Behind the Rise of Virginia Tech Football is not a misnomer," says Hall of Fame sportswriter David Teel. "Chris attended Tech, cheered for Tech, absorbed Tech's history, worked at Tech, and most essential, earned the trust of those who authored the program's ascension, including Frank Beamer." CHRIS COLSTON worked in the Virginia Tech Athletics Department from 1985-96 as editor of The Hokie Huddler and went on to cover the MLB, NFL, and NBA as an award-winning reporter for Sports Weekly and USA TODAY. Says TechSideline.com Founder Will Stewart, "Chris Colston is the most authoritative voice on the modern era of Virginia Tech football. ...if you want to learn about Virginia Tech football, he's the guy. I personally learned a ton from reading his stuff over the years. Sit back and enjoy Go Tech Go from one of the most revered writers about Hokie sports."

Author : Chris Colston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781670101020
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GO TECH GO Volume 1 written by Chris Colston and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a college football program reinvent itself? How does it go from a middling regional independent--a school without a bowl victory until 1986--to a national title contender in 1999? How, in the wide, wide, world of sports, does something like that happen? That is the question author Chris Colston answers, in an entertaining fashion, in his eight-volume series, GO TECH GO: THE INSIDE STORY BEHIND THE RISE OF VIRGINIA TECH FOOTBALL. Colston worked in the Virginia Tech Athletics Department from 1985-96 as editor of The Hokie Huddler, and went on to cover the MLB, NFL, and NBA as an award-winning reporter for Sports Weekly and USA TODAY. "Why should you care what Chris Colston thinks? Because outside that locker room, there might not be anybody who knows that team better," wrote the Roanoke Times in 2012. "Colston isn't just a Tech graduate; he's a Tech expert, a Tech historian. A Tech lifer." Colston offers a unique perspective on how Virginia Tech rose to national prominence, building an intense fan base along the way.

Author : Chris Colston
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780794828042
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Tech Football Vault written by Chris Colston and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Colston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Run of the Bull written by Chris Colston and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Want a front-row seat to Virginia Tech's rise as a college football power? Chris Colston takes you there, with vivid, behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes about the Hokies' decades-long evolution. There isn't a more definitive and comprehensive history of Virginia Tech's transformation from football nomad to national title contender under Frank Beamer than this."--Andy Bitter, The Athletic. Colston's eight-volume series GO TECH GO: The Inside Story Behind the Rise of Virginia Tech Footballis designed for easy reading--perfect for your favorite mobile device. In Volume Three, The Run of the Bull (1985-86), Colston shares inside stories he witnessed first-hand as editor of the Hokie Huddler. Told with entertaining, easy-to-read anecdotes, he reveals the events that led to coach Bill Dooley's departure--and how his players rallied around him to win the university's first football bowl game in thrilling, last-second fashion. "Riveting stuff," says Hall of Fame broadcaster Bill Roth. "Reads like a well-written novel. Essential for all Hokies, old and new." "The Inside Story Behind the Rise of Virginia Tech Football is not a misnomer," says Hall of Fame sportswriter David Teel. "Chris attended Tech, cheered for Tech, absorbed Tech's history, worked at Tech, and most essential, earned the trust of those who authored the program's ascension, including Frank Beamer." CHRIS COLSTON worked in the Virginia Tech Athletics Department from 1985-96 as editor of The Hokie Huddler and went on to cover the MLB, NFL, and NBA as an award-winning reporter for Sports Weekly and USA TODAY. Says TechSideline.com Founder Will Stewart, "Chris Colston is the most authoritative voice on the modern era of Virginia Tech football. ...if you want to learn about Virginia Tech football, he's the guy. I personally learned a ton from reading his stuff over the years. Sit back and enjoy Go Tech Go from one of the most revered writers about Hokie sports."

Author : Doug Doughty
Publisher : Taylor Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780878331161
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Hoos 'n' Hokies written by Doug Doughty and published by Taylor Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: