Sunday Read: "It Ain't About the Record"
on 15/4/12
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"It ain’t about the record. You have nine girls. My job, and [the coach’s] job, and everyone’s job, is to go 9-0 with them. If you go 8-1, you’ve had a losing season."
(via John Branch/New York Times) , administrator at Carroll Academy, a day school in Tennessee run by the county's Juvenile Court. The school's basketball team is subject of a 5-part series that begins today and is off to an outstanding start.
ICYMI: Branch was the author of one of the best pieces of sports reporting from 2011 -- "The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer." Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
ICYMI: Branch was the author of one of the best pieces of sports reporting from 2011 -- "The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer." Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here.
