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Biography about coach frank and affectionate

Published on Sunday, Mar 21, 2010

In basketball-crazed Kentucky, where the playoff term ''Sweet Sixteen'' is trademarked by the state High School Athletic Association, coaches like Charles ''Jock'' Sutherland are as revered as the players.

Jock: A Coach's Story, by former Beacon Journal columnist and editor Stuart Warner, is an affectionate, but frank, biography of Sutherland and his decades-long pursuit of a state championship. Sutherland, who turned 80 on March 14, was Warner's coach briefly, and later the subject of many articles he wrote for the Lexington Herald beginning in the late 1970s.

Sutherland was a popular but sometimes controversial figure, managing to skirt dismissal several times. His home was vandalized in 1969 when it was learned that he was scouting a black player for the University of Alabama. With the support of athletic director Paul ''Bear'' Bryant, the young man was signed.

Readers who didn't know Warner had been a sportswriter will be convinced by the intense descriptions of the games that took Sutherland's teams into the playoffs — win and lose. More than the action on the court is described; Warner didn't forget the shoeless Kentucky boys in handmade uniforms, who played only basketball because their school offered no other sport.

Jock: A Coach's Story (245 pages, softcover) costs $16 from Wind Publications, http://www.windpub.com. Stuart Warner teaches journalism at Case Western Reserve University.
Alphabet book
incorporates birds

Spring has arrived, and we are glad to see flower buds and returning birds. Some birds we won't be seeing around Ohio are in Chagrin Falls illustrator Pam Spremulli's alphabet book Letter Birds.

With one bird for each letter (F is for flamingo), the supersaturated colors of Spremulli's computer-manipulated images fill the page (X is for Xenops). Children will enjoy seeing bluebirds, cardinals and robins through their windows and matching them with the bright Letter Birds.

Letter Birds (40 pages, hardcover) costs $14 from New Hampshire's Publishing Works.
KSU professor
wins special honor

Kent State University sociology professor Nicole Rousseau has won the North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement Award for her book Black Woman's Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction, an examination that includes the effects of slavery, movement from southern agricultural to northern factory work, economic and social policies and attitudes.

The 227-page hardcover textbook costs $75 from Palgrave, a division of MacMillan.


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Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Reality-TV personality Duane ''Dog'' Chapman signs Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given (line tickets are required) at noon today; former Ohio State University and Baltimore Colts football star Art Schlichter discusses and signs Busted: The Rise and Fall of Art Schlichter, 7 p.m. Tuesday; physicist Sean Carroll signs From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, 7 p.m. Thursday.

Hudson Library and Historical Society (96 Library St.) — Frank Koller, author of Spark: How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First Century Corporation, featured in last Sunday's Book Talk, will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.

Holiday Inn Independence (6001 Rockside Road) — Koller addresses the Cuyahoga Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon and signs Spark, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. Cost for nonmembers is $25; call 216-573-2707 for reservations.

Hiram College (State Routes 700 and 305) — Robert Sullivan, author of the travel memoir Cross Country, speaks at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the college library's Prichard Room.

Mount Union College (1972 Clark Ave., Alliance) — Tickets are gone for gymnasium seating for Greg Mortenson's lecture; to reserve seating at a live remote feed at another campus location, call 330-829-6120. The author of Three Cups of Tea will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Laurel Lake Retirement Community (200 Laurel Lake Drive, Hudson) — Ralph Pfingsten, author of The History of the Ravenna Arsenal, presents a slide show and discusses his book, 2 p.m. Saturday.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal

Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.

In basketball-crazed Kentucky, where the playoff term ''Sweet Sixteen'' is trademarked by the state High School Athletic Association, coaches like Charles ''Jock'' Sutherland are as revered as the players.

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