"Sports journalist John Feinstein returns to his first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown heroes of Division-1 college hoops"--
This is a book about horsemanship from classical equitation to race riding, with a look at the forms in which it is practised by such differently motivated riders as Cossacks, American Indians, sports competitors and soldiers in war and on ceremonial occasions.
How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? And what do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used.
