George Dohrmann (born February 14, 1973), is an editor and writer for ''

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winner for beat reporting, and author of '' Play Their Hearts Out'', which received the 2011

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. In 2000, while working at the St. Paul ''Pioneer Press'', Dohrmann won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered widespread academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. The Citation says, A few months after winning the prize he joined ''

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'' where he worked as a senior writer dealing with investigative projects into college basketball, college football and soccer. Dohrmann published his first book, ''Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine'', on October 5, 2010, through Ballantine Books. The book was the result of more than eight years of investigative work. The book "reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation. At the book's heart are the personal stories of two compelling figures: Joe Keller, an ambitious coach with a master plan to find and promote 'the next LeBron,' and Demetrius Walker, a fatherless latchkey kid who falls under Keller's sway and struggles to live up to unrealistic expectations." ;Awards :Associated Press Sports Editors, second place, enterprise reporting, 1995. :Associated Press Sports Editors, second place, investigative reporting, 1996. :Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 2000. :Winner of the Award for Excellence in Coverage of Youth Sports, 2010. ''Play Their Hearts Out'' :Winner of the

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George Dohrmann's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dohrmann, George 1973 births American sports journalists American male non-fiction writers Living people University of Notre Dame alumni Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting winners People from Stockton, California University of San Francisco alumni Writers from California Journalists from California