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Last Shot
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Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (2005) is a sports and mystery novel for young readers by John Feinstein. A sports journalist, Feinstein has written for a variety of publications, including The Washington Post, Golf Digest, and Sports Illustrated. He is also the author of 45 fiction and nonfiction books about sports. His debut nonfiction book, A Season on the Brink (1986), focused on the 1985-86 college basketball season of the Indiana Hoosiers and their controversial head coach, Bobby Knight. He is a regular commentator on various sports shows including The Tony Kornheiser Show and formerly hosted his own show for CBS Sports Radio.
Last Shot, Feinstein’s first book for young readers, incorporates real-life college basketball players, coaches, and figures into a fictional scheme to fix the result of the 2005 college basketball Final Four. His book won the 2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. It delves into the themes of teamwork, illusion versus reality, and money’s role in compromising the ethics and morals of collegiate athletics. Last Shot is the first volume in the six-book Sports Beat series of sports mysteries. This study guide uses an ebook edition of the book published by Yearling in 2005.
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