ShootOut a Comeback Kids Novel, Mike Lupica
ShootOut a Comeback Kids Novel, Mike Lupica
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Shoot-Out: a Comeback Kids Novel

Author: Mike Lupica

Narrator: Keith Nobbs

Unabridged: 2 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2010


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica!

What happens when a star player ends up on the worst team? He either learns to lose or he stops playing the game he loves. These are the choices facing Jake, who has gone from champion to last place, testing his sportsmanship every time his soccer team gets waxed. But it's his teammate Kevin who shows Jake that being a good captain means scoring and assisting off the field as much as being the star player on it.

About The Author

Mike Lupica is one of the most prominent sports writers in America. His longevity at the top of his field is based on his experience and insider’s knowledge, coupled with a provocative presentation that takes an uncompromising look at the tumultuous world of professional sports. Today he is a syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News, which includes his popular “Shooting from the Lip” column, which appears every Sunday. He began his newspaper career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. He became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper with the New York Daily News, which he joined in 1977. For more than 30 years, Lupica has added magazines, novels, sports biographies, other non-fiction books on sports, as well as television to his professional resume. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN’s The Sports Reporters. He also hosted his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2.In 1987, Lupica launched “The Sporting Life” column in Esquire magazine. He has published articles in other magazines, including Sport, World Tennis, Tennis, Golf Digest, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, Men’s Journal and Parade. He has received numerous honors, including the 2003 Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with noted author and screenwriter, William Goldman on Wait ‘Till Next Year, and wrote The Summer of ’98, Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back and Shooting From the Lip, a collection of columns. In addition, he has written a number of novels, including Dead Air, Extra Credits, Limited Partner, Jump, Full Court Press, Red Zone, Too Far and national bestsellers Wild Pitch and Bump and Run. Dead Air was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Mystery and became a CBS television move, “Money, Power, Murder” to which Lupica contributed the teleplay. Over the years he has been a regular on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. On the radio, he has made frequent appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.His previous young adult novels, Travel Team, Heat, Miracle on 49th Street, and the summer hit for 2007, Summer Ball, have shot up the New York Times bestseller list. Lupica is also what he describes as a “serial Little League coach,” a youth basketball coach, and a soccer coach for his four children, three sons and a daughter. He and his family live in Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chanel on September 27, 2012

I might have just liked this book because I can relate to it so well. It is about a kid who is an amazing soccer player, but moves and gets on a team that is really bad. The only part that doesn't fit is that I am not an amazing soccer player. Also his team scores at least one goal every game. Eithe......more

Goodreads review by Ben on December 04, 2014

This book was a good book, The main character's name is Jake, Jake is trying to help his new soccer team because he has moved from the championship soccer team to the worst team in the division. In the story It is difficult for him because sometimes he wished he didn't move. I thought this was a goo......more

Goodreads review by Brendan on May 06, 2019

It was good but the main character overreacted about everything.......more

Goodreads review by Tyler 11-12 on March 02, 2012

Great book! Good detail! Entertaining! Also very intresting! I reccomend tis book!......more

Goodreads review by Youraj 11-12 on December 13, 2011

1 loved it 2 great 3 It was about my favorite sport soccer......more