Adam Jones
Adam Jones writes a nationally acclaimed weekly college football commentary, The Jones Top Ten, which he has been producing since 1995. His first book, Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Football, which interweaves the story of his family and his upbringing in the football-crazy Texas Panhandle with the story of the Texas Longhorns' 2005 NCAA national football championship, will be published by St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books in August 2008. Jones lives in Austin with his wife and three sons.
Praise for Rose Bowl Dreams
“No true football fan should miss Adam Jones' Rose Bowl Dreams. It’s more than a football book; it’s an inspiring commentary on life itself."
—Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
“The best football book since Frederick Exley’s classic A Fan’s Notes. Adam Jones’s Rose Bowl Dreams delves deeply into everything that made this country great—mother, God, football and drinking. Even if you can’t stand any of those things, Rose Bowl Dreams will almost certainly change your mind.” —Kinky Friedman
“ROSE BOWL DREAMS reveals what lies at the heart of the hardcore college football fan better than any other book I’ve read. This story of faith and faith rewarded will move all readers, even those who scarcely know the difference between a punt and a pass.”
—W. K. Stratton, author of Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M and Chasing the Rodeo
