Color Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story

In Color Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story, award-winning sports columnist and best-selling author Scott Pitoniak identifies the sources of Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim's fierce competitive drive and loyalty to Syracuse. The book also examines the people who shaped Boeheim as a person and a coach, the great players he has coached and his incredible devotion to raising money in hopes of eradicating cancer, which claimed both of his parents' lives and has also victimized Boeheim himself.

Color Him Orange Press Release

 

In Color Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story, award-winning sports columnist and best-selling author Scott Pitoniak identifies the sources of Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim's fierce competitive drive and loyalty to Syracuse University. The book also examines the people who shaped Boeheim as a person and a coach, the great players he has coached and his incredible devotion to raising money in hopes of eradicating cancer, which claimed both of his parents' lives and has also victimized Boeheim himself.

 

In this intriguing new biography, Pitoniak examines numerous facets of Boeheim's compelling journey, including:

 

• His complicated relationship with his father, a fourth-generation funeral director in Upstate New York
• The impact of growing up in a small town
• Making the Syracuse hoops team as a walk-on
• Almost winding up as the head coach at the University of Rochester instead of his alma mater
• Turning down lucrative coaching offers from other colleges and NBA teams
• His incredible run to the NCAA championship in 2003
• Falling just short of the title in 1987 and 1996
• Being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004
• Coaching college basketball legends such as Carmelo Anthony, Gerry McNamara, Derrick Coleman, Billy Owens, Rony Seikaly, Pearl Washington and Sherman Douglas
• Finding true love later in life with his second-wife Juli

 

After nearly a half century at Syracuse and 856 career coaching wins, Boeheim looks to add to his remarkable coaching legacy this winter by establishing a new record for most victories all-time at a single school.

 

About the author:
A native of Rome, New York, and a magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, Scott Pitoniak has been writing about people and the games they play for nearly four decades. He spent 35 years in the newspaper business, mostly as a sports columnist and feature writer, and has written 14 books and hundreds of magazine articles. Along the way, he has received more than 100 national and regional journalism honors and has covered the Olympics, Super Bowls, World Series, NCAA basketball tournaments, the Stanley Cup playoffs, and major golf tournaments.

 

Contact: Bill Ames, Independent Publishers Group, 312-337-0747, ext. 326, bames@ipgbook.com

 

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