Volume 5 of the MIKE Sports Comic Book Series focuses on my top 10 all-time NCAA Basketball Favorites.
My selections include five former collegiate stars featuring one with an unusual name, two well-known teams, one famous expression of an ESPN announcer and one spring illness that every fan loves.
Nine of my ten selections positively impacted college basketball. One of my popular picks excelled at first, but then embarrassed themselves and their university for questionable behavior away from the hardwood.
However, all on my list are worthy of being recognized by their unique basketball nicknames.
In this book, each of my top 10 NCAA Basketball Favorites includes its own sports comic. The comics cleverly capture the nickname of the player, team, expression and early spring illness.
In addition to the comics, I include a little history in each chapter about my selections and why I believe they belong on this list.
About the book's narrator: MIKE - aka Mike Raffone:
MIKE is destined to become the first ever animated brand in sports to be seen on television, the web and on Jumbotrons in stadiums and arenas.
As narrator of the MIKE Sports Comic Books series, MIKE immediately connects with readers. Sports fans of all ages love his colorful stories, candid comments and creative content.
MIKE's books are entertaining and always easy to read.
Plus, the unique sports comics that accompany each chapter cleverly capture the essence of the featured player, team, coach, play, sports expression, or in this case, spiritual sports favorite.
Readers normally collect multiple sports comic books because they enjoy MIKE's inventive take on the sports, teams and athletes they love.
About MIKE's Creator & the book's Author - Jim Sweeney:
Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Jim grew up with a passion for sports and fun. He played baseball, basketball, soccer and street hockey as a kid and then wound up starting on the Boston College basketball team. He captained the Eagles from 1977 – 1980 and received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation’s top NCAA basketball player under six feet tall.
After a 20-year-career in sales, Jim closed the computer agency he founded to pursue a fun career in sports entertainment.
Jim developed MIKE as an alter-ego sports personality and has penned 30+ books under the MIKE name for both kids as well as adults.
About MIKE's Co-creator & the book's Publisher: Maura Sweeney
A three-time best selling publisher of Inky Winky Spider pre-school books, Maura is an author, Huffington Post contributor, video blogger and a founder of The State of Happiness Talk Radio Show in Florida.
Maura became the driving force in encouraging her husband out of a highly successful business and into the pursuit of his dream – to create MIKE into the sports world’s ultimate talking head.
Volume 5 of the MIKE Sports Comic Book Series focuses on my top 10 all-time NCAA Basketball Favorites.
My selections include five former collegiate stars featuring one with an unusual name, two well-known teams, one famous expression of an ESPN announcer and one spring illness that every fan loves.
Nine of my ten selections positively impacted college basketball. One of my popular picks excelled at first, but then embarrassed themselves and their university for questionable behavior away from the hardwood.
However, all on my list are worthy of being recognized by their unique basketball nicknames.
In this book, each of my top 10 NCAA Basketball Favorites includes its own sports comic. The comics cleverly capture the nickname of the player, team, expression and early spring illness.
In addition to the comics, I include a little history in each chapter about my selections and why I believe they belong on this list.
About the book's narrator: MIKE - aka Mike Raffone:
MIKE is destined to become the first ever animated brand in sports to be seen on television, the web and on Jumbotrons in stadiums and arenas.
As narrator of the MIKE Sports Comic Books series, MIKE immediately connects with readers. Sports fans of all ages love his colorful stories, candid comments and creative content.
MIKE's books are entertaining and always easy to read.
Plus, the unique sports comics that accompany each chapter cleverly capture the essence of the featured player, team, coach, play, sports expression, or in this case, spiritual sports favorite.
Readers normally collect multiple sports comic books because they enjoy MIKE's inventive take on the sports, teams and athletes they love.
About MIKE's Creator & the book's Author - Jim Sweeney:
Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Jim grew up with a passion for sports and fun. He played baseball, basketball, soccer and street hockey as a kid and then wound up starting on the Boston College basketball team. He captained the Eagles from 1977 – 1980 and received the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation’s top NCAA basketball player under six feet tall.
After a 20-year-career in sales, Jim closed the computer agency he founded to pursue a fun career in sports entertainment.
Jim developed MIKE as an alter-ego sports personality and has penned 30+ books under the MIKE name for both kids as well as adults.
About MIKE's Co-creator & the book's Publisher: Maura Sweeney
A three-time best selling publisher of Inky Winky Spider pre-school books, Maura is an author, Huffington Post contributor, video blogger and a founder of The State of Happiness Talk Radio Show in Florida.
Maura became the driving force in encouraging her husband out of a highly successful business and into the pursuit of his dream – to create MIKE into the sports world’s ultimate talking head.