Riding With the Blue Moth - Softcover

Hancock, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596701633 ISBN 13: 9781596701632

Publisher: Sports Pub, 2006

Synopsis

After the death of his son, Will, in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine additional members of the Oklahoma State basketball team and support staff, survival became a common word in Bill Hancock's vocabulary. Bicycling was simply the method by which he chose to distract himself from his grief. But for Hancock, the 2,747-mile journey from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Coast became more than just a distraction. It became a pilgrimage, even if Hancock didn't realize it upon dipping his rear tire in the Pacific Ocean near Huntington Beach, California in the wee hours of a July morning. On his two-wheel trip, Hancock battled searing heat and humidity, curious dogs, unforgiving motorists and the occasional speed bump--usually a dead armadillo. Hancock's thoughts returned to common themes: memories of his son Will, the prospect of life without Will for he and his wife, and the blue moth of grief and depression.

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About the Author

Bill Hancock has achieved a unique triple at the upper echelons of intercollegiate athletics. He was the first full-time director of the NCAA Final Four; the first Executive Director of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and is currently the first Executive Director of the College Football Playoff. Bill served for 13 years as director of the NCAA’s Division I Men’s Basketball Championship—the three-week “March Madness,” event that culminates with the Final Four Basketball Championship Tournament. Bill is a 1972 journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma. In the fall of 1971, he joined the staff of the university’s athletics department as assistant sports information director. After his newspaper-publisher father died in 1974, Bill spent four years as editor of his family’s daily newspaper, the Hobart, OK Democrat-Chief. He has been inducted into the halls of fame of the College Sports Information Directors and the All-College Basketball Classic. In 2010, the Kansas City Sports Commission honored him with its “Outstanding People in Sports” award. He was a 2012 winner of the Regents Alumni Award at the University of Oklahoma. Bill has served on the United States Olympic Committee staff at 11 Olympic Games and two Pan American games. His hobbies include grand-parenting, cycling, running, classical music and American history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sports Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1596701633
• ISBN 13: 9781596701632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246