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Zack Hample joins the SBTN team

"The Baseball Collector" and author of Watching Baseball Smarter to pen Foreword for SBTN's Major League Baseball book.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Zack Hample has collected over 3,300 baseballs from 44 different MLB stadiums. The author's exploits have been mentioned in Maxim, People, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, The New York Times, Parade Magazine, FHM, and Time for Kids. He has also been interviewed by NPR, CNN, Fox Sports and CBS to name a few. You can visit Zack at www.zackhample.com.

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Monte Dutton joins the SBTN team

Premier motorsports and NASCAR This Week sports columnist to pen Foreword for SBTN's spring of 2008 NASCAR title.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Monte Dutton is one of the country’s premier motorsports writers and longtime reporter for The Gaston Gazette in North Carolina, Monte Dutton lives and breathes stock car racing. NASCAR drivers and owners trust and respect Monte because he calls it like he sees it. With knowledge gained over years, he knows how to capture the excitement for the fans—whether they’re newcomers or diehards. Dubbed “one of the sport’s best chroniclers” by The New York Times, Dutton has authored eight books and won multiple top writing honors from the National Newspaper Association, National Motorsports Press Association, Eastern Motorsports Association and South Carolina Press Association.

Books by Monte Dutton:

Pride of Clinton (Clinton S.C.: Jacobs Press, 1986), a history of high-school football in Clinton, S.C.
At Speed: Up Close and Personal With the People, Places and Fans of NASCAR (Dulles, Va.: Brasseys' Inc., 2000
Jeff Gordon: The Racer (St. Charles, Mo.: GHB Publishers, 2000)
Rebel With a Cause: A Season With Nascar Star Tony Stewart (Dulles, Va.: Brasseys' Inc., 2001)
Editor, Taking Stock: Life in NASCAR's Fast Lane (Dulles, Va.: Brasseys' Inc., 2002)
Postcards from Pit Road: NASCAR's 2002 Season (Dulles, Va.: Brasseys' Inc., 2003)
True to the Roots: Americana Music Revealed (University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books, 2006)
Haul Ass and Turn Left: The Wit and Wisdom of NASCAR (Warner Books Inc., 2006)

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Kelly Damphousse joins the SBTN team

Life-long "Canadien" to help write Montreal Canadiens book for a fall of 2008 release.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Kelly Richard Damphousse serves as Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and as President’s Associates Presidential Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Damphousse grew up in a small fishing village in northern Alberta (Lac La Biche). He was named after two famous hockey players during the 1960s. Red Kelly won more Stanley Cups (8) than any non-Montreal Canadien in history. Henri Richard (the “Pocket Rocket”) played for the Canadiens for 20 years, winning more Stanley Cups (11) than than any other person in history.

With this heritage, it is no surprise that hockey would dominate Damphousse’s early years. His first “real” memory is learning to skate before the age of two. His dad had grown up on a farm in Saskatchewan and had never learned to skate. Undeterred, he put on his galoshes and walked beside his small son as he teetered along.

Damphousse spent most of the 1970s playing ice and road hockey—dreaming of becoming a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens. His hockey heroes included the likes of Ken Dryden, Guy Lafleur, Jacques Lemaire, Yvon Cournoyer, the Mahovlich brothers, and Steve Shutt. His diary from that time is filled with statistics and game summaries (.e.g, “Montreal lost 3-2 last night but Dryden was great. Need more scorers!”). Every Saturday night at 6 PM was reserved for Hockey Night in Canada. Every birthday and Christmas present was a stick or a pad or a hockey book. He was a goalie (mostly because he was “husky” (according to his pants) or “big boned (according to his mom). At the age of 14, he began playing goal for his hometown adult team (the Lac La Biche Clippers) in addition to playing in his youth league. His highlights include getting knocked out by a slapshot to the chin during the only game that was video taped that year and having the local radio play-by-play man say “he’s one hell of player, I mean one heck of a player).

His hockey career was shattered, however, by a failed tryout with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League. About all that he remembers of that period was the coaches coming down from the bleachers and yelling “You goalies could try stopping a puck every once in a while!” Devastated by his early cut, he returned to Alberta and decided to seek his other dream—to become a mountie. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in Lethbridge Community College, earning an associates degree in Law Enforcement in 1982. He had just turned 19 and was shocked (shocked!) that no police department would give him a gun or a fast car. So, he worked in the Alberta Correctional Services for 3 years.

After receiving sound counsel from a college instructor, he decided to seek a bachelor’s degree at Sam Houston State University’s College of Criminal Justice in Huntsville, Texas. The goal was to earn the degree and then return to Canada to become a mountie. He sold everything he had, bought a motorcycle, and drove down to Texas in 1995. His mountie plans were derailed when he met his future wife who wanted to marry neither a cop nor a Canadian. So smitten was he, that he gave both dreams up for love and has been in the US ever since. He earned his MA (1991) and PhD (1994) from Texas A&M in sociology and then began working in academia. He was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham 1994-1995 and at Sam Houston State University 1995-1997. He moved to the University of Oklahoma in 1997 to be at the home of a good football team. Three years later, he was a national champion! Er, he means, THEY became national champions.

He teaches statistics, research methods, program evaluation, criminal justice and a host of other crime related classes. His research generally revolves around issues related to criminology and the criminal justice system. He is the associate director of the American Terrorism Study (www.MIPT.org) and he recently completed an evaluation of two voice stress analysis programs for the US Department of Justice.

Even though he never gets to watch hockey in Oklahoma, he still lives and dies each day by watching the scores of Les Habitants. He takes some measure of pride in knowing that it is HIS Canadiens that were the last team north of the border to win the Stanley Cup and he looks forward to the day he gets to see the bleu, blanc, et rouge hoist the cup again. He is married to Beth (a church musician) born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas. They have two daughters, Kayleigh (16) and Kristen (14). They live in Moore, Oklahoma.

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David Colburn joins the SBTN team

CelticStats.com Founder to help write Boston Celtics book for a fall of 2008 release.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

David Colburn was born in a small town in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont 9 days before Paul Pierce was born. He currently lives in Middlebury, VT where he works as a software developer for a magazine distribution company. David received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Vermont.

As a child David used to collect baseball, basketball and football cards, primarily for the statistics contained on each card. He is an avid sports fan. He is what would be considered a sports statistics “nut”. His favorite sports teams include the Boston Celtics (NBA), the Chicago Bears (NFL) and the New York Mets (MLB).

In the winter of 2001 David decided to create a website that contained the complete statistics for every player, coach and season in the history of the Boston Celtics. In the summer of 2002 the site celticstats.com went live. It has remained a complete, accurate and up to date source of Boston Celtics statistics ever since.

David's interests include playing ultimate frisbee and fantasy basketball or just talking sports with friends and family.

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The American Author's Association has awarded the SBTN team the 2007 Golden Quill Award (Sports Genre)
Reviewer: Joe Fabel – AAA Vice President

Sunday, November 4, 2007

The American Author's Association has awarded the SBTN team the 2007 Golden Quill Award (Sports Genre). The award for 2007 AAA - Sports Book of the Year was presented to Daniel J. Brush, David Horne and Marc CB Maxwell for their work on The University of Oklahoma Football: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports, the first book in the Sports By The Numbers™ series.

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Mike Vaccaro joins the SBTN team

New York Post senior sports columnist to pen Foreword for SBTN's spring of 2008 New York Yankees title.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Mike Vaccaro is a senior sports columnist for the New York Post. He has won more than fifty major journalism awards since 1989 and has been cited for distinguished writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York State Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute. He lives in New Jersey.

Vaccaro is the author of two highly successful books: 1941 - The Greatest Year in Sports and Emperors and Idiots. Both books were published by Doubleday, a division of Random House.

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Zac Robinson joins the SBTN team

Exercise and fitness columnist to help write Mixed Martial Arts book for a spring of 2009 release.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Zac Robinson is a former collegiate baseball player and coach at the University of Central Oklahoma. As a player he excelled on the mound and in the outfield and earned a couple of ‘not half bad’ awards.

His sports glory days however came long before he donned the blue and gold of UCO. His summer nights were spent with his younger brother on the hill of All Sports Stadium. Where in the midst of cup ball games, box sledding, and foul ball chasing, he cheered for the Oklahoma City 89ers. One such night a foul ball off the bat of Len Matusak came his way. The ball landed above him and rolled down the hill. His dad’s voice rang through his head, “Remember, glove on the ground, rear down, head up!” He did remember and still has the baseball to prove it.

His other triumph came on center court of Reunion Arena in 1983. During halftime of a Dallas Mavericks basketball game he won an Armour food products competition by shooting, dribbling, and passing a basketball. His rewards: a signed ball, huge trophy, two season tickets, and a dad and mom full of pride!

Currently Zac teaches Physical Education in Ramstein, Germany and stays up all night every Saturday in order to watch college football or UFC when it is on.

Zac is also a certified fitness trainer whose articles appear on various exercise and fitness websites.

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David Jimenez joins the SBTN team

AP Freelance Sportswriter to help write Dallas Cowboys book for a fall of 2008 release.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

David Jimenez is originally from Corpus Christi, Texas and currently resides in Dallas. He currently works for JCPenney in direct marketing at the corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas and also freelances for the Associated Press.

Jimenez received his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He was a sportswriter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal before moving back to Fort Worth, where he was the Associate Editor at Impressions Magazine.

With the Associated Press, he has covered the Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars and colleges sports in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

His first memories of sports include attending Houston Astros games (the Astros usually lost) at the Astrodome, and traveling with his dad to Waco, Texas to watch Baylor football games (Baylor usually lost too).

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Keith Gaddie joins the SBTN team

University of Georgia Alum to help write Georgia Football book for a fall of 2008 release. Dr. Gaddie will also pen the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville Basketball books for SBTN.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Keith Gaddie is a writer and political science professor at the University of Oklahoma. A native of Fisherville, Kentucky, he attended college at Florida State University, where he witnessed the original “wide right” game against Miami from seats on the fifty yard line.

Keith took graduate degrees (M.A., Ph.D.) in political science from the University of Georgia, where he was also a graduate assistant in the athletic department. After serving on the faculty of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, he fled the Gulf Coast for the relatively benign weather of Oklahoma.

Keith largely writes about politics, including books on political ambition, elections, environmental protection, and the South, and he has worked as a litigation consultant in voting rights cases and testified before both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives on voting rights matters.

From 2005 to 2007 Keith also worked in talk radio, first as a permanent guest host and news contributor for WKY-930 AM in Oklahoma City, then later as the co-host of his own sports/politics talk show, “The Tailgate Political Hour” on KTLR-890 AM. He still maintains a relationship with the local NPR station, KGOU 106.7, where he practices sounding thoughtful. In 1997 he was a “guest coach” for the OU football team (they lost to Texas A&M by 54 points) and he is currently the faculty advisor to OU’s collegiate champion Sooner Bass Anglers.

Keith is an unapologetic fan of collegiate sports (and now only of collegiate sports), specifically hoops and football, and of baseball before it was ruined by interleague play and Barry Bonds. His last athletic accomplishment before retiring to a life of sedentary bliss was to run the entire Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in 2007 (He did not come in first).

Keith resides in Norman, Oklahoma with his lovely spouse Kim, their four children --Collin, Alec, Cassidy, and Kenedy-- and three large, slobbering dogs.

Keith’s Books:

The Economic Realities of Political Reform (1995)
David Duke and the Politics of Race in the South (1995)
The Almanac of Oklahoma Politics (1998, 2000, 2002 editions)
Regulating Wetlands Protection (2000)
Elections to Open Seats in the US House (2000)
Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career (2004)
The Triumph of Voting Rights Progress in the South (forthcoming)

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John Antonik joins the SBTN team

WVU's Director of New Media to help write Mountaineer Football book for a fall of 2008 release.

Monday, September 10, 2007

John Antonik has covered Mountaineer sports for the school's official athletic web site as the Director of New Media for West Virginia University's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics for the past eight years. Antonik's involvement with WVU began in 1988 as a student assistant in the Sports Communications Office. He later served as a graduate assistant and then as Associate Sports Information Director from 1992-99. During that time he was involved in the promotion of consensus football All-Americans Mike Compton, Todd Sauerbrun, Aaron Beasley and Canute Curtis. The New Martinsville, W.Va., native earned several writing citations as a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), researched, wrote and edited WVU's first official baseball history, and has done freelance writing for Front Row and West Virginia University Alumni magazines.

In 1997, Antonik was a member of the voting panel for the Southern Conference 75th Anniversary teams. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from WVU in 1990 and received a master's degree in sports management from West Virginia University in 1992.

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Jared Trexler joins the SBTN team

Hearst Award semifinalist to help write Penn State Football book for a fall of 2008 release.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Jared Trexler has dabbled in various writing fields, from sports to marketing and investment writing. He was a 2005 graduate with honors from Penn State University’s School of Sports Journalism before interning under the voice of the Nittany Lions, Steve Jones. Trexler has also served as the lead college basketball columnist for a Philadelphia-based sports wire service and currently holds the title of assistant managing editor at The Phanatic Magazine, a sports web site devoted to covering Philadelphia area sports. Trexler was also a semifinalist for the prestiguous 2005 National Hearst Award and recently took home an award for excellence in copy writing.

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John McMullen joins the SBTN team

Managing Editor of The Phanatic Magazine to help write Philadelphia Eagles book for a fall of 2008 release.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

John McMullen is an award-winning writer who has covered major league sports for over a decade, McMullen is currently the managing editor of The Phanatic Magazine, an assistant editor at The Sports Network and a national correspondent for RealGM.

A member of the Pro Football Writers of America, John spent seven years on the beat of the Minnesota Vikings for Twin Cities Sports Wire and The Football Network and has been a featured columnist for Lindys Sports, Minnesota Sports Update, Pro Football Digest, Only College Football, Football.com, Saddo Boxing and The Cox Newspaper Group. His weekly sports column was syndicated for three years through Valeo Intellectual Property and he has been a featured guest on over 30 radio outlets including The Team (ESPN 990 in Montreal), The Bear (ESPN 660 in Minneapolis), The Maverick in Mankato, Minn., WNTP in Philadelphia, Philly Sports Radio 950, the Bet US Radio Network and Sporting News Radio's NFL Draft coverage.

He currently hosts the highly-rated "Johns on Sports" radio program on WTBQ in New York with John Gottlieb.

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New Oklahoma Sooners Football Title Released, Proceeds Support Coach Bob Stoops' Champions Charity

Wednesday, August 15 OU graduate students release the first title in their Sports by the Numbers™ series: "University of Oklahoma Football". Part of the proceeds from the sale of the book will go to The Bob Stoops Champions Foundation.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

El Dorado Hills, CA (PRWEB) August 14, 2007 -- For the authors of University of Oklahoma Football: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports, it was natural to start their Sports by the Numbers™ series with an OU title. All three authors are graduate students at the University of Oklahoma. They came up with the series idea in a statistics class on the OU campus and then crafted the Sports by the Numbers™ concept at Rudy's "Country Store" and Bar-B-Q in Norman, OK.