Kirjahaku

Female attorney flips the script on the NCAA. Two lovers unite in this raucous, off-kilter Alice In Wonderland inflected tale of personal triumphs on and off the basketball court. A ribald tale between the lines

UNDER A BASKETBALL MOON is the coming-of-age story of Skip Walker, our narrator, the first coach to lead a HAAU (Historically African American University) to the NCAA's FINAL FOUR men's basketball championship.Skip is a Charlestonian by birth, and he relates to readers that even though he lived in the city, he was always a country boy at heart. His story, in the beginning, mostly concerns his early family history and dynamics.His father, a graduate of HAAU South Carolina A&M, a HAAU, is an overbearing ex-GI high school coach who rules his house with an iron hand. Skip's father and his friends, are competition-obsessed former HAAU sports lettermen who mostly dominate the first half of the book. Skip's mother plays a pivotal role, and he is devoted to his grandparents, who have a farm in the country, along the banks of the Toogoodoo River, thirty miles south of the Holy City.The second half of the tale is mostly devoted to Skip's wife Veronica and their children. In a curious twist of fate, Veronica is a prominent labor attorney whose sons just happen to be the best high school basketball players on the planet. Her whole focus turns to amateurism and how it's been mishandled under the jurisdiction of the NCAA.What happens next may even impact events in the real world.Featuring cameo's by three POTUS' and a host of others, most notably, Janis Joplin.

Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: A GEECHEE boy's taleUnder a Basketball Moon is the coming of age story of Skip walker, the first coach to take a black college team to the NCAA Final Four. Born in the 1960's during the Hippie revolution, growing up during the school desegregation era in the regentrifying city of Charleston, South Carolina, now likely the world's top tourist destination, in his diaries, Skip, a video gamer of some repute, takes us on a wild ride that ends with the inauguration of the first black president of the United States.Skip's wife and childhood sweetheart, Veronica Browning Walker, likely the highest compensated labor arbitration is an integral character, her son and wards being student-athletes subject to the NCAA's draconian rules when it comes to players sharing in the economic largesse provided to college athletics by the advent of TV, cable advertising money and revenue from sneaker and jersey sales.Cameos by three POTUS' and a host of other celebrities, Under a Basketball Moon is a hilarious Alice in Wonderland influenced, Forrest Gump-like tale whose ending may have implications on the real world of college sports.Male bonding- the masculine principle of one-upmanship, women always getting their man, and the intersection of amateurism and money are constant themes in Under a Basketball Moon, a Charleston novel after all that could be called 'North of Broad'. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe's 'A MAN IN FULL', Phillip Roth's 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL', and Lewis Carrol's 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

how a dc labor lawyer flips the NCAA upside down