Roland Lazenby is an American

sportswriter Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. Sports journalism started in the early 1800s when it was targeted to the social elite and transitioned into an integral part of the n ...

and educator.

Biography

Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

and

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

. These include ''Fifty Years of the Final Four: Golden Moments of the NCAA basketball tournament'' (1987), ''The Lakers: A Basketball Journey'' (1993), ''Bull Run! The Story of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls'' (1996), ''Blood on the Horns: The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls'' (1998), ''Mad Game, The NBA Education of Kobe Bryant'' (2000), ''Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey'' (2001), ''Johnny Unitas: The Best There Ever Was'' (2002), ''Tom Brady: Sudden Glory'' (2002), ''The Show: The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived It'' (2004), ''Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon'' (2010), ''Michael Jordan: The Life'' (2014), and ''Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant'' (2016). He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers. Lazenby's book ''Bull Run!'' was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association. His book, "Michael Jordan. The Life" was named Sports Book of the Year 2015 in the Polish Sports Book Awards (Sportowa Książka Roku). Lazenby studied at

Virginia Military Institute la, Consilio et Animis (on seal) , mottoeng = "In peace a glorious asset, In war a tower of strength""By courage and wisdom" (on seal) , established = , type = Public senior military college , accreditation = SACS , endowment = $696.8 mill ...

and

Hollins University Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States ...

, and has been a member of

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...

's Department of Communication and Radford University's School of Communication."Roland Lazenby". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. October 13, 2006. Retrieved on August 24, 2008. A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book ''April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers'' (2007), an account of the

Virginia Tech massacre The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an ...

. Lazenby served as editor. In 2005, Lazenby and Andrew Mager created Planet Blacksburg, a student organization focused on new media, journalism, and publishing. In April 2017, Lazenby redefined the term "coaching tree" - expanding it to include anyone who has ever played under said coach.

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Roland Lazenby
at the Virginia Tech Department of Communication {{DEFAULTSORT:Lazenby, Roland American sportswriters Virginia Tech faculty Living people Virginia Military Institute alumni Hollins University alumni Radford University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)