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Lute!: The Seasons of My Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lute Olson, David Fisher
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 389880
Media: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 031235942X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780312359423
ASIN: 031235942X
Publication Date: October 30, 2007
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Product Description
It was love at first sight . . . One day I picked up a basketball, and it never let me go. For fifty seasons Lute Olson has been teaching young athletes the skills of basketball---and life. Starting as a high school coach, he worked his way to the top of the basketball world---winning more than a thousand games, a national championship and world championship, producing some of the NBA’s biggest stars, and eventually being enshrined in the basketball Hall of Fame. But Lute is far more than a basketball story. His partner for forty-seven years in building championship programs was his high school sweetheart; his story is also a love story of a couple who together built a sports legend. Lute and Bobbi Olson were a team. Their almost half-century love affair ended with Bobbi’s death from cancer. Lute explores how he dealt with her death and how he moved forward to find a new love. This is the chronicle of one American boy’s dream to become a great basketball coach---his achievements, his coaching strategies, and how he dealt with his beloved wife’s death---the wins and losses he faced as boy, man, and coach. But always with one constant in his life, the game of basketball. This is the story of fifty seasons in the life of Lute Olson.
Praise for Lute!
“Lute Olson’s story is the true American dream. He is a legendary coach who has shared his vision of winning with all his players---now we are given the chance to learn too. It’s inspirational and downright heartwarming.” ---Jim Nantz, CBS Sports
“. . . it is exactly what you would expect from Olson---intelligent, first-class, sprinkled with dry wit---personal in ways you might not anticipate.”
---Tucson Citizen
“This is not a basketball book. It is not a book about a coach. It is the most unexpected of all things from the inscrutable Olson: the story of his personal life.” ---Arizona Daily Star
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 A must read for any Wildcat Fan July 19, 2007
I got this book for my husband for Father Day and he absorbed it in about 3 days! Must be some interesting book ....He stated it was a really good read. Not to mention I recieved 20.00 off the bookstore price by ordering on Amazon ....
 Cat's fans will love! June 8, 2007
If you are an Arizona fan you will love this book for the personal info the newspaper never could give. Interestingly written too. All basketball fans will enjoy the coaching insights.
Life in the Basketball Fast Lane March 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For basketball fans this book is a humorous look in to the hectic life of a hall of fame basket ball coach and his college players. A very enjoyable and insightful book. It kept my interest throughout the whole book and brought many smiles.
Good read March 8, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Glad Lute had a good year with pen and paper because he certainly didn't have a good year on the courts.
Great Read By One of the Game's Best Coaches! January 30, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just finished Lute! and thoroughly enjoyed what I read. Ironically, I finished the book a couple of days after the North Carolina Tar Heels (go Heels!) thrashed the Arizona Wildcats by 20 some odd points. Reckon this was payback for the times Arizona beat UNC in the March Madness Tournaments of years past.
Among the topics covered in the book were:
1. Lute Olson's early childhood and early love of basketball.
2. Various coaching jobs - high school, Long Beach State, Iowa, Arizona.
3. Relationships with certain coaches (Roy Williams, Bobby Knight, John Wooden, Al McGuire, Jerry Tarkanian, Pete Newell, etc.).
4. His long-time marriage to his first wife, Bobbi, whom he obviously loved very much and was deeply hurt by her passing.
5. His current marriage to Christine Torreti.
6. Relationships with various college basketball players.
7. Summaries of his various seasons at the colleges he coached at and how they ended (sometimes after a deep run in the NCAA tournament, sometimes, an early first-round exit).
8. Relationships with other family members and various friendships.
9. Description of his recruiting, publicity, and other basketball coach-related duties.
10. Several instances of good humor.
The book was a joy to read and I gained a deeper appreciation for Coach Olson. As a matter of fact, if I had a son who was college basketball material, I would count it a privilege if he played for Coach Olson at Arizona (assuming, of course, that none of the basketball powerhouses in the ACC were interested in him!).
All in all, a great read about a class act. Highly recommended.
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