Riding with the Blue Moth, by Bill Hancock
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Bill Hancock led a charmed life. He married his high-school sweetheart. He had two successful sons and a beautiful grand-daughter. He ran the NCAA men's basketball tournament. During his ascent through college athletics, he moved among the top sports figures in the world. On January 27, 2001, everything changed: a small Oklahoma State University airplane crashed in a snowstorm. Ten people died that evening; one of the passengers was Bill's son, Will Hancock. Bill and his wife, Nicki, struggled with how to survive the loss. Yet, they knew that they had to go on living for one another, for their marriage, as well as for their son, Nate, for Will's wife, Karen, and for their young grand-daughter, Andie. Bill, who had run 15 marathons, chose to bicycle across the United States in an effort to confront his grief, head-on. He and Nicki started the journey in Huntington Beach, CA and concluded at Tybee Island, GA. Ultimately, the 2,747-mile journey from the Pacific to Atlantic coasts, became something much more important than a cycling trip to help cope with loss. It became a journey in discovery as well as one of recovery.
Riding with the Blue Moth, by Bill Hancock- Amazon Sales Rank: #716017 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Released on: 2015-06-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist This cycling memoir, written by the coordinator of the NCAA "March Madness" basketball tournament, begins in 2001, when Hancock's son, Will, died in an airplane crash, along with several members of the Oklahoma State basketball team and its staff. Grief stricken, the author and his wife stumbled through their daily routines, unable to conceive of anything that would bring them back to some sort of normality. Then inspiration struck. The author decided to follow through with a project he had been planning before his son's death: a cross-country bicycle trip. With his wife as his SAG (a biker acronym, meaning "support and guidance"), Hancock embarked on a journey that would take him from shore to shore and from numbing grief to new life. Much more than a sports book, this is an exploration of desolation and the incredible lengths we sometimes have to go to conquer it. Only the very cold reader will get through this one without shedding a few tears. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
About the Author Bill Hancock is a grandfather, musician, writer, outdoorsman, marathon runner, and former director of musical-theater productions. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, he now works as the first full-time administrator of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). He was previously an administrator of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Hancock also served in various administrative roles at the University of Oklahoma and the old Big Eight Conference, making his ties throughout college sports extensive. He has volunteered for the USOC at six summer Olympics games.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Riding Off Into the Sunset (and Ocean) By Bo Carter "Riding With the Blue Moth" by Bill Hancock chronicles not only the grief of losing a son, Will, in the Oklahoma State basketball team airplane tragedy but also the amazing conquest of a cross-America bicycle trip. Bill Hancock gives his heart and soul to a spirit-cleansing ride as well as getting the support of his wonderful wife, Nicki, daughter-in-law Karen, and the entire immediate family after this gut-wrenching loss.Bill's honesty and coping with the struggles of Will's loss and the hazards of trekking from California to Georgia are absolutely inspiring and refreshing. This book is a `must read' for anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one, a great personal challenge or even the casual reader who wants to get a great spiritual lift from a wonderful volume.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. How to endure the unendurable By Michael A. Willhoite Bill Hancock has written an exquisitely crafted memoir out of his heartbreak. Pedalling across the country was a means of coping with unbearable pain, and in doing so, he exorcised (as far as was possible) some of the agony of losing his son, Will. His odyssey is also an accidental biography of the nation, in the small, incisive portraits of some of the people he encountered on the way. Taking the back roads as a means of avoiding the worst traffic, he encountered backyard America in all its variety. In writing "Riding With the Blue Moth' he has given us a memoir, a valentine to his son, and a legacy for his granddaughter.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. An Odyssey of Pain, Redemption and Release... By Big D How do you find meanng to life after a tragedy of inexplicable pain and horror? Shakespeare said the greatest tragedy on earth is when a parent buries a child. How do you find grace, courage, the grit and will to carry on in the presence of such grief?...That's what this book is about. The redemption and renewal of hope of one, Bill Hancock. He had been around athletics and athletes all his life, around those who talked about courage and the need to keep on keeping-on when times were "tough." Now, Bill Hancock, had to see if those things were true...If he could find those elements in his life that he had taught to others...This is the story of one man's remdemption through grace and a most unusual odyssey. This book will stand the test of time.
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