News & Articles

A Timely Review

SB Nation
Given the David Salinas/AAU scandal in Houston, a timely review by SB Nation.
http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/7/21/2285630/aau-basketball-demetrius-walker-george-dohrmann

Charles Bock reviews PTHO

Harpers
Acclaimed fiction writer Charles Bock calls PTHO one of the best sports book ever written.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/06/0083466

Penn State honors Play Their Hearts Out

PTHO won the Award for Excellence in Coverage of Youth Sports, presented by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
http://live.psu.edu/story/52146

ESPN Page 2 Review, Q & A

ESPN.com
The great Jim Caple debuts his Page Turner spors book blog with some kind words about Play Their Hearts Out and a Q & A.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/110117

NY Times Book Review

New York Times
Reviewer Jason Zengerle calls PTHO "an often heartbreaking, always riveting exploration of the seamy underbelly of big-time youth basketball — and one of the finest books about sports I’ve ever read."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Zengerle-t.html?_r=1&src=tptw

FreeDarko Presents: A critic of Play Their Hearts Out

FreeDarko
Josh Spilker takes on one of the central themes of the book.
http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2010/12/fd-book-club-they-grow-up-and-die.html

Washington Post Review

Washington Post
Sean Callahan calls Play Their Hearts Out, "a tour de force of reporting, filled with deft storytelling and vivid character studies."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112404975.html

Q&A with Demetrius

Arizona Republic
Doug Haller, ASU beat writer, talks to Demetrius about his career and PTHO
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/Blog/DougHaller/105707

Justin Hawkins: Inspiring Figure

Las Vegas Sun
An article about how UNLV's Justin Hawkins is portrayed in PTHO.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/oct/28/hawkins-unlv-102810/

Wall Street Journal chimes in.

Wall Street Journal
A review of Play Their Hearts Out in the WS Journal by Adam Thompson
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303738504575568672306918534.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Cleveland Chimes in

Cleveland Plain Dealer
A nice review of PTHO written by Stuart Warner
http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2010/10/george_dohrmanns_play_their_he.html

The Bigger Picture

TrueHoop/ESPN
Henry Abbott at TrueHoop sees the bigger message/purpose behind PTHO
http://espn.go.com/blog/TrueHoop/post/_/id/20558/play-their-hearts-out

Review in Business Week

Business Week/Bloomberg
A review by Will Leitch.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/hoops-impresario-makes-millions-linking-children-sneaker-firms.html

While everyone focus on the Giants . . .

San Francisco Chronicle
Regan McMahon chimes in on Play Their Hearts Out in The Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/21/DD731FUS0K.DTL

Dallas Review

Dallas Morning News
Great lead in this review of Play Their Hearts Out.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-bk_basketball_1017gd.ART.State.Edition1.333749b.html

Minneapolis review

Minneapolis Star Tribube
A nice review published in the Star Tribune in advance of my reading in Edina, Minn.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/104991629.html?page=1&c=y

PTHO Slideshow

Huffington Post
A cool way to summarize the book: pictures and short captions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-dohrmann/youth-basketball-machine_b_761758.html

Slate Podcast discusses PTHO

Slate.com
Toward the end of Slate's podcast "Hang Up and Listen," they discuss Play Their Hearts Out and corruption in youth basketball.
http://media.slate.com/media/slate/Podcasts/Sports/SG10101101_HUAL.mp3

SI Story on Agent Business

Sports Illustrated
Not book related, but a big story I just finished that appears in this week's Sports Illustrated.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/magazine/10/12/agent/index.html?eref=sihp

Hometown Paper

The Stockton Record
A column by Bob Highfill on Play Their Hearts Out in advance of my reading/signing there.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101010/A_SPORTS0203/10100323

The Toughest Job in Sports?

Los Angeles Times
Bill Dwyre talks to Len Elmore, the man charged with cleaning up youth basketball, about PTHO.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dwyre-20101012,0,3354698.column

Only A Game podcast

WBUR-Boston
A great interview with Bill Littlefield.
http://npr.vo.llnwd.net/kip0/_pxn=0+_pxK=10412/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/330/510052/130439354/WBUR_130439354.mp3

Yahoo! Interview

Yahoo! Sports
A Q&A with Jeff Eisenberg
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/A-chat-with-George-Dohrmann-author-of-Play-The?urn=ncaab-275106

Insight on PTHO by the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Brad Wolverton hits on some of the key points of the book as it relates to the college game.
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/New-Book-Offers-Disturbing/27401/

Deadspin Excerpt

Deadspin.com
Deadspin has run a short excerpt from one chapter.
http://deadspin.com/5655441/a-meeting-with-the-godfather-how-youth-basketball-sausage-gets-made

All Things Considered Interview

NPR
Here is an interview I did with Guy Raz of NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130266060

Hoops Addict interview

hoopsaddict.com
Here is an interview I did with Ryan McNeill a few weeks back.
http://www.hoopsaddict.com/dohrmann-talks-about-play-their-hearts-out/

Amazon Books of the Month

Amazon picks Play Their Hearts Out as one of the Best Books of October.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Books-of-the-Month/b/ref=bhp_banner_A410_04?ie=UTF8&node=390919011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1G1DD9XW35P9ZTHF5KDS&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1275888822&pf_rd_i=283155

Publishers Weekly Q&A

Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/44581-high-school-hoops-pw-talks-with-george-dohrmann.html

Some nice words from a former boss

Los Angeles Times
A column on Play Their Hearts Out by Bill Dwyre, who I once worked for at the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dwyre-20100926,0,5255255.column

Book Excerpt

Sports Illustrated.
Here is a link to the excerpt of Play Their Hearts Out that appeared in this week's Sports Illustrated.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1174629/1/index.htm