AUTHOR BIO

The author is a lifelong sports fan, having served as play-by-play announcer for football, basketball, and even a few baseball games for three years for the Northern Illinois Huskies on the college radio station. There, he got to interview many of the players. A few years after graduation he was the public address announcer for races at a local motocross track near Antioch, Illinois. Getting to know some of the competitors he found the great majority of athletes to be quite “normal” and “human,” with the same feelings as the rest of us. They do, however, have a lot of extra challenges and they compete on a much larger and more public stage. To show that side of them is why he wanted to write this book. Obviously there are always a few primadonnas but those are the exceptions. In spite of the Mrs. Farnsworths of the world who only see a final score and call a team “Losers,” every player who gives every ounce of effort they have on the field but comes up short is a winner no matter what the scoreboard may say.