Randy Turner
ASIN: B00HZZMX08
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 95
From 1986 through 1999, reporter Randy Turner gave southwest Missouri readers a different look at sports through his Sports Talk columns. The columns not only covered the games, but offered a revealing look at the athletes who played in those games. Sports Talk received numerous state, regional, and national awards, with Turner being put in a class with current Sports Illustrated staffer and former Kansas City Star reporter Joe Posnanski and longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz. Among the stories featured in this volume:-A football coach meets an eight-year-old girl who is permanently in a wheelchair because of a drunk driver-A cheerleader talks about her aunt, Nancy Cruzan, and the right-to-die case that went to the U. S. Supreme Court-A mother watches her daughter play her final high school volleyball match-The high school coach who murdered his wife and then ...