Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

Eight years of unfettered access, a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths, and a genuine compassion for his subject allow Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the …

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