02016cam a2200301 i 4500 373058043 TxAuBib 20190412120000.0 181004s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018037816 9780143133872 18.00 014313387X 18.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Thompson, Wright. The cost of these dreams [BOOK] : sports stories and other serious business / Wright Thompson, ESPN The Magazine senior writer. New York : Penguin Books, 2019. xvii, 378 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. From one of America's most beloved sportswriters, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports. Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full. There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvelous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts. Provided by publisher. 20190412. Athletes United States Biography. Sports Social aspects United States. Coaches (Athletics) United States Biography. Biographies.