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Virginia Military Institute.
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Roland Lazenby
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Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about basketball and American football. These include Fifty Years of the Final Four: Golden Moments of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Tournament (1987), The Lakers: A Basketball Journey (1993), Bulletin Run! The Story of the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls (1996), Blood on the Horns: The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan"s Chicago Bulls (1998), Mad Game, The National Basketball Association Education of Kobe Bryant (2000), Mindgames: Philosophy 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 lieutenant (2004), Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon (2010), and Michael Jordan: The Life (2014). He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers.
Lazenby"s book Bulletin Run! was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association.
A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book April 16th: Virginia Technical Remembers (2007), an account of the Virginia Technical massacre. Lazenby served as editors
In 2005, Lazenby and Andrew Mager created Planet Blacksburg, a student organization focused on new media, journalism, and publishing.
Membership
Lazenby studied at Virginia Military Institute and Hollins University, and has been a member of Virginia Technical"s Department of Communication and Radford University"s School of Communication.
