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Lute!: The Seasons of My Life: Lute Olson, David Fisher

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Early in his eighth decade of life, Lute Olson is still the face of basketball at the University of Arizona. Over the last 20 years, he has turned the once-moribund program into a perennial member of the nation’s top 10. For a straitlaced gent of Scandinavian ancestry, this is a pretty spicy memoir. It features details of Olson’s three love affairs: the first with basketball, the second with his late wife of 50 years, Bobbi, and the third with his second wife, Chris. Basketball fans will enjoy the cycles of playing-recruiting-playing as Olson constructs his teams, first at Iowa and then at Arizona. Olson soft-pedals his contributions to on, court success, deferring much to his assistants and to Bobbi, who acted as recruiting assistant, den mother to lonely kids away from home, and therapist to a certain mercurial basketball coach. Olson injects a sly sense of humor into this unusually thoughtful sports autobiography–the life of a successful basketball coach and an intelligent man, well told. Wes Lukowsky
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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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