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Barry Jacobs has been a journalist since 1976, covering a variety of topics, and he has extensive experience in writing about college sports in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). He portrays the drama surrounding three of this conference's top basketball teams in the 1992-93 season Three Paths to Glory: A Season on the Hardwood with Duke, N.C ...
Barry has been a freelance writer since 1976, authoring five books, 14 basketball annuals, nominations to the National Register, and hundreds of articles on sports, history, and the environment for newspapers (including 20 years for the New York Times), magazines, and the Internet.
Nov 1, 2007 · “For the last three decades, Barry Jacobs has been among the most respected and dedicated sportswriters covering the world of college basketball. Across the Line is his finest work. This book tells the important stories of the brave young men who were only looking to play a game, but ended up making history.
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Dec 5, 2018 · More than once, Jacobs has had to choose between his political career and sports writing opportunities. In 2012, the Raleigh News and Observer offered him a weekly column. That same summer, the NC House seat for the 23rd district opened up after the resignation of Ellie Kinnaird.
Grounded in the civil rights struggles on campuses throughout the south, the voices of players, coaches, opponents and fans reveal the long-neglected story of race, sports and social history. Barry Jacobs has covered college basketball as well as news and other sports since 1976 for numerous publications, among them the New York Times ...
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In Across the Line, Barry Jacobs does an excellent job telling the unsung stories of the Black pioneers who quietly faced and surmounted barriers to athletic participation at major Southern universities a half-century ago.
Feb 24, 2018 · Most of you know Barry Jacobs as a long-time freelance sportswriter, author of (the lamentably no longer published) Barry Jacobs’ Fan’s Guide to the ACC and a DBR contributor.
