April 28, 2006 For more information: Frank R. Scatoni 619-807-1887 frank@ventureliterary.com "No Kill Date" Venture Literary Sells Behind-the-Scenes Profile of College Football Recruiting to ESPN Books On April 28, 2006, Greg Dinkin of Venture Literary sold the rights to Bruce Feldman’s Signing Day: On the Road of Big-Time College Football Recruiting to Chris Raymond at ESPN Books. The world of college football recruiting, an arena like no other, has been a largely undocumented one, due to a bizarre combination of factors such as the NCAA’s rigid body of regulations, the paranoia fueled by college coaches’ own often quirky sensibilities, and the threat of trade secrets leaked onto the Internet. Yet Bruce Feldman’s Signing Day promises to take the reader someplace he has never been: into the heart of a college football program’s war room for an entire year as a new recruiting class is developed and whittled down from a thousand prospects to twenty-five must-have athletes. Inside Signing Day, the reader not only learns how a college staff evaluates and woos its targets, but also how the business works from both the perspective of the recruit and the recruiter. The narrative centers around second-year Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron, who arrived in the deep South, by way of U-Miami, with the reputation (among his colleagues and every football writer in the country) as both the nation’s top recruiter and as a hundred-miles-an-hour guy who seems equal parts Cajun, caveman, and cartoon character. Feldman’s prior experience includes writing for Maxim, Basketball America, the Palm Beach Post, the Miami Herald, and the St. Petersburg Times. In addition, he was previously an associate editor of College & Pro Football Newsweekly. He also played semi-professional football in the Empire Football League as a wide receiver for the Hudson Valley Vikings. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book ’Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment (NAL, 2004). Recently, two of his features for ESPN the Magazine have been nominated for ASME awards, the most prestigious awards in the magazine industry. And his work has been selected in the best-selling anthology The Best American Sports Writing. To learn more about Venture Literary, visit: www.ventureliterary.com. To learn more about ESPN Books, visit: www.espnbooks.com.