Audra Jennings

Thanks to everyone who participated in today's blog tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card authors are: Ed Flaherty and Jack Uldrich and the book: Coached for Life Lariat Companies, Incorporated (May 18, 2009) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings - Senior Media Specialist - The B&B Media Group for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Ed Flaherty grew up in the blue-collar town of Great Falls, Montana. By the time he assumed the role of team capta...

Coached for Life: Making Winners for the Long Term How the lessons of one winning season lasted a lifetime What is the legacy of a great coach? When the players of the Great Falls Central Mustangs arrived for the first day of practice in the fall of 1962, they had their sights set on the unlikely goal of the state championship. But what their coaches delivered was far more lasting than a championship ring; it was life-changing truths that transformed these boys into men, instilling character that would span their lifetime. Coached for Life , by Ed Flaherty and Jack Uldrich, is the true account of how two high school football coaches, Bill Mehrens and John McMahon, molded an undistinguished group of young men not only into state champions but also into men with integrity that would follow them the rest of their lives. The book includes a dramatic 40 year retrospect from the players themselves (including Flaherty, a former team captain) describing how the biblical values as well as the h...