June 14, 2006
Several Wildcat head coaches joined NU alum Christine Brennan at Harry Caray's yesterday, June 13, for Brennan's signing of her book, Best Seat In The House: A Father, A Daughter, A Journey Through Sports. Click on the link above for a photo gallery of the event.
Brennan is an award-winning USA Today sports columnist, a best-selling author, and an on-air commentator for ABC News, ESPN, NPR and Fox Sports Radio. A portion of proceeds went to Northwestern University's scholarship fund.
The book is the first father-daughter sports memoir written by a sportswriter. Brennan is a leading expert on the Olympics and women's sports issues.
"A beautiful new memoir...with Father's Day just around the corner."
-- Robin Roberts, Good Morning America
"Before kids love sports, they love their fathers. If they're lucky, they learn to appreciate one through the other. Chris Brennan was lucky. This ode to her father is a wonderful tale of the heart. You feel the magic of sports - and fathers - within its pages."
-- Mitch Albom, columnist, Detroit Free Press; panelist, ESPN's The Sports Reporters
"Award-winning sports journalist Christine Brennan has taken on the boys for years -- and won. Now in Best Seat in the House, she tells the story behind her success, a story that will resonate with millions of girls and women and their supportive dads. From playing baseball with her father in the backyard in the 1960's to fighting for Title IX in the 21st Century, Brennan tells a riveting tale of coming of age just as women's sports were coming of age. And like so many others, her father was her guide throughout the journey. Both a tribute and a memoir, Christine Brennan's story makes for compelling reading."
--Billie Jean King
"If we're lucky, my daughter will turn out half as passionate about sports as Christine Brennan, and I'll be half as wise as her dad."
--Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated columnist