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Outside the Limelight: Basketball in the Ivy League
By Kathy Orton
with Forewords by John Feinstein

Outside the Limelight is the first book to look inside Ivy League basketball and at the boundless enthusiasm that defines it.
With painstaking reportage, Kathy Orton weaves together the stories of coaches and players as they move from fall practice through an entire season and ahead to the NCAA tournament.

Vividly capturing the internal fervor of the personalities who champion their game—all the triumphs and disappointments of an Ivy hoop season.

Kathy Orton has covered college basketball for the Washington Post for more than a decade. She was also the newspaper's beat writer on the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for two seasons, including their Super Bowl season in 2000.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface
1 Origins of a League

Part I Great Expectations
2 A Mom-and-Pop Store
3 Great Scott
4 Multicultural Quakers
5 Getting Under Way
6 Roll Crimson Pride
7 Backdoor Cuts
8 A Tradition Tarnished
9 Bright Lights, Big Stages

Part II The Heart of the Season
10 Harvardization
11 Conference Calls
12 We Interrupt This Season . . .
13 The Road Is the Thing
14 Everyone Onto the Court
15 Brothers in Arms
16 A Rivalry Like No Other
17 Topsy-Turvy Weekend
18 Dreams Deferred
19 And the Winner Is . . .

Part III Tournament Hoopiness
20 The Wait of Expectations Epilogue

 • Author: Kathy Orton with Forewords by John Feinstein
 • Binding: Hardcover
 • Number of Pages: 240 pages
 • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
 • Publishing Date: September 11, 2009
 • Language: English

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