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Jack McCallum

Jack McCallum

Jack McCallum

Jack Mccallum has been at Sports Illustrated since 1981 and the chief NBA writer since 1985. His work has appeared in the Best American Sports Writing Anthology, and in 2004 he won the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award for outstanding writing. He is the author of Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics and coauthor of Foul Lines: A Pro Basketball Novel. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Seven Seconds or Less will be released on May 01, 2007 in Trade Paperback
May 01, 2007
Seven Seconds or Less is now available in Trade Paperback
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Seven Seconds or Less will be released on November 14, 2006 in eBook
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Foul Lines will be released on February 07, 2006 in eBook
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Foul Lines is now available in eBook
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Foul Lines will be released on January 24, 2006 in Trade Paperback
Jan 24, 2006
Foul Lines is now available in Trade Paperback
Jan 24, 2006

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Roanoke Times, February 19, 2013
...book to make an exclusive list that included The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, Dream Team by Jack McCallum and Over Time by Frank Deford. THE LONGEST SHOT is the inspirational story of how virtual unknown Jack Fleck beat four-time Open champion Ben...
Chicago Daily Herald, February 18, 2013
...will discuss the books Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter by Frank Deford and Dream Team by Jack McCallum. The monthly series is held from noon to 1 p.m. at the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. Munson attended Notre Dame University with...
Batavia Patch, February 12, 2013
...will discuss the books “Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter” by Frank Deford and “Dream Team” by Jack McCallum . The monthly series is held at the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Avenue, from noon to 1 p.m. Munson attended Notre Dame...
Pop Matters, January 25, 2013
...Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever Jack McCallum Dream Team begins in the ‘80s, when the first germinations of using pros in the Olympics began. The building blocks to a great...
IBerkshires.com, January 21, 2013
...the college's Winter Study program. Last week, he was joined for a class by his SI colleague Jack McCallum, who lectured about the process of creating a long-form, magazine-style feature story. Both Layden and McCallum said after the class that their...
NewJerseyNewsroom.com, December 14, 2012
...special treat. The book appeals to as wide an audience as any written in 2012. Dream Team by Jack McCallum: Veteran Sports Illustrated writer McCallum takes us back to the original dream team and remembers what they did, how they did it, and why we...
SI.com, December 4, 2012
...a fun, fun game to be in." It looked the same from where I was, Shawn. -- Jack McCallum *** Jack McCallum on an 18-year-old LeBron James, set to make his NBA debut, in a 2003 Sports Illustrated story: "NBA officials will tell you that we've seen...
Sunderland Echo, January 14, 2013
...but heading towards the final quarter, Seaham looked to be gaining in strength and half-backs Brad Green and Jack McCallum combined well to their backs. Centres Graham Aldus and James Ramshaw battered forward but strong defence held them off time and...
Sunderland Echo, January 10, 2013
...trailing to an early try, capped a fine spell with a try of their own, sparked initially by Jack McCallum and Brad Green. Glen Hardie, playing out of position in the centre, tore downfield and placed a clever kick behind the retreating defence. The home...
Huffington Post, January 4, 2013
...deal with the media, I can always remember one particular sound bite. It came from the Hall-of-Fame writer, Jack McCallum and his tip to the rookies... I can quote it without looking it up... Said Jack: "The one thing journalists hate more than...
Highland Community News, December 21, 2012
...Jack McCallum wrote “The Dream Team” just in time for the Summer London Olympic Games, perhaps good timing for the 20-year reunion of the first-ever team that magnified world basketball on...
Sunderland Echo, December 20, 2012
...disappointing note, going down 15-8 at home to Novos in Durham and Northumberland Division Two. Seaham led with Jack McCallum’s second-minute penalty before the visitors missed three penalties in a five-minute spell of pressure. Novos then took the...
Telluride Daily Planet, December 19, 2012
...and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever” by Jack McCallum. The gold-medal performance from the United States men's basketball team at the 2012 London Olympics had some people drawing comparisons...
Lebanon Daily Record, December 19, 2012
...and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever” by Jack McCallum. The gold-medal performance from the United States men's basketball team at the 2012 London Olympics had some people drawing...