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Banana Heads from the Acrapolips is ultimately a story about life’s potential for generating hilarity. In it, Lou Gioia, die-hard Brooklynite and water polo fan, takes the reader on the adventure of a lifetime to Athens during the 2004 Olympics. Affectionately calling themselves “banana heads,” Lou and his best friend, Tommy, could not be more hilarious travel companions. Whether it’s their flippant personalities or those famous Brooklyn accents, they seem to generate excitement, confusion, and flat-out hilarity everywhere. Aside from their drunken antics and comical culture clashes, this is not a “feel good story” of athletic triumph. This is a story about the multiple dimensions of friendship and affiliation; about two guys laughing their butts off or crying like babies on each other’s shoulder. ... Read more

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Watch out Bejing - The Banana Heads Are Coming to Town!
If you're someone who loves sports, drinking, and a damm good story then this is the book for you. Lou Gioia invites the reader on the adventure of a lifetime when he and his sidekick Tommy take Athens by storm during the 2004 Summer Olympics.Splitting their time between the Olympic Stadium and various Athens watering holes, Lou and Tommy create some amazing memories while leaving behind a path of beer and sweat.I'll tell you one thing - any city these Banana Heads visit will never be the same!

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll go bananas!
Let me tell you somethin'!Lou Gioia is a master storyteller with a knack for nuance and humor and a cast of characters that you wouldn't believe were real! Lou takes us on a sidesplitting joy ride through the streets of New York (with scenes that are strikingly Seinfeldian!), National Championships out in California and the Caribean, and lands us in front row seats in Athens, Greece for the 2004 Olympics. This bastid, this sun of a gun, knows how to tell a good freakin' story!Eagerly awaiting the bananaheads' trip to Beijing in 2008! ... Read more

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Describes the aquatic events of the Olympic Games and previews the athletic competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. ... Read more

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An essay about a twentieth century Central European Jewish athlete who challenged prevailing anti-Semitic stereotypes and, in the years just after the First World War, became a competitive rower and swimmer in what was then Czechoslovakia. In addition to profiling water polo player Kurt Epstein from his childhood to his decision to participate in the 1936 Berlin "Nazi" Olympics, the author addresses the problematic subject of Jews in sports. ... Read more