Dunks, Threes and Palm Trees - David A. Dorsey

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Résumé :
From Chauncey Billups and Kevin Love to Aaron Wiggins and John Wall, almost 200 McDonald's All-Americans and future NBA players have competed over the past half century at the City of Palms Classic in Fort Myers, Florida. But back in 1973, Edison Community College coach Hugh Thimlar established a mid-December tournament without such visions of grandeur. He simply wanted to gauge the area's talent and help him build future junior college teams. He did so more than a decade before the three-point shot existed and even longer before the NBA's prep-to-pros renaissance, the one-and-done college basketball trend and the proliferation of high-powered high school basketball academies and multi-million-dollar shoe deals. No one could have foreseen that in 1985, Bill Pollock and Donnie Wilkie would save the tournament and its floundering finances from extinction, then shepherd it into becoming the world's most interesting basketball tournament - if not the best in the world. Author David A. Dorsey has sat courtside at more than half of the tournament's title games. With intimate detail in Dunks, Threes & Palm Trees, Dorsey transports readers through every era of the tournament's vast history, bringing them forward to present times and looking ahead to future challenges in preserving the tournament's national caliber format while balancing its local character. It's a must-read for all basketball fans....

Biographie:
David A. Dorsey (1949-2014) taught Old Testament at Evangelical Seminary in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, from 1979 until retiring in 2013 as Distinguished Professor of Old Testament. Dorsey's study on the Iron Age roads of ancient Israel stems from his dissertation work at Dropsie University, based on several years of extensive investigation of ancient sites in Israel by motorcycle and on in-depth study of biblical geography as a student of Anson Rainey, who served as the primary reader of his dissertation. Dorsey brings his research on the roads together in an unparalleled and detailed treatment of the road system of Iron Age Israel, showing lines of evidence for the highways and byways traversed by ancient Israelites in each region of the country from Dan to Beersheba....