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Are you ready for some football? I sure am! The NFL Preseason officially kicked off on the 9th of this month and today my favorite team will be playing their first game of the 2009 NFL Preseason. Sports fans, will you be tuning in to watch the games this season as well as the sports commentary shows? I know I will. Sports commentator and host of The NFL Today as well as Inside the NFL James Brown has penned a memoir entitled Role of a Lifetime that is set for release this September.

Role of a Lifetime by James Brown with Nathan Whitaker and Tony Dungy

Book Description: We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a “hooray for me” attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.

Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With ROLE OF A LIFETIME, James reveals a different side of his character. Brown rose from a middle-class home to earn a scholarship to Harvard and a chance at a professional sports career before moving on to broadcast journalism. Part memoir and part self-help, this book draws on James’ lessons from his faith and life experiences to guide readers to find fulfillment and significance. He offers values and encouragement to others of all generations, assisting them in their search for meaning in navigating a world that increasingly promotes transient values, if any at all. His message that shortcuts and gimmicks are counterproductive to a person’s success provides hope that there is a God who cares about them and their futures.

This is a definite must-read for any sports fan! Now, to celebrate the start of the 2009 NFL Preseason I have 5 copies of James Brown’s Role of a Lifetime to give away to five lucky winners courtesy of Anna Balasi at the Hachette Book Group:

Role of a Lifetime is set for release on September 24, 2009, but five lucky winners will have the chance to read this book before everyone else! The giveaway will run from August 13, 2009 until midnight on August 27, 2009. Winners will be drawn and notified on the 28th of August. This gives the lucky winners a chance to enjoy the rest of the preseason and get some quality reading in before the start of the season!

Guidelines:

• You must provide a working email in the email field of your comment so that I can notify you should you win.
• Contest is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only as the books will be shipped directly from the publishers, for this reason no P.O. Boxes be accepted.
• Winners will be randomly selected using Random.org
• Winner will be notified via email and has 72 hours (three days) to respond with a mailing address. If the winning contestant does not respond after 72 hours a new winner will be drawn.

How to Enter

• To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me which team you’ll be cheering for.
• You can gain 1 additional entry for each of the following: Follow me on Twitter, sign up to receive email notifications of new posts, subscribe to my RSS feed, or Favorite this blog on Technorati. 4 extra entries total!
• You can also Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter for an additional entry as well.
• Blog about this giveaway for an additional 3 entries. Be sure to provide a link to the post in your comment

Don’t forget, the giveaway only runs from August 13th, 2009 until midnight on August 27th, 2009. Winners will be announced on August 28th so hurry and enter today!