L. Jon Wertheim - While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coach

While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.

- L. Jon Wertheim

topic: Sports, Team, Book, Gripping, Coaching Staff, Robotics