When John Thompson Jr. died on Aug. 30 at age 78, it robbed the world of one of college basketball's truly titan figures, a Hall of Fame coach whose presence and outspokenness on the issues that face the game left a lasting mark on not only college basketball but also society and sports in general. Not quite four months after Thompson's death comes "I Came As A Shadow," the long-awaited autobiography chronicling Thompson's life and career, written in the legendary Georgetown coach's characteristically direct and illuminating manner. The Undefeated senior writer Jesse Washington, Thompson's co-author on the project, talked to ESPN.
New John Thompson autobiography captures complexity, pain of a life and a career
