had a great pleasure and now i will give you the pleasure iif you will allow me to introduce stephanie flom, she was on you about the remainder of the evening. [applause] s.l. price is super, super nice. you are going to love him. "playing through the whistle, his truly compassionate exploration of field, football and american town is the first book for s.l. price, senior writer for sports illustrated. with more than three dozen cover stories for sports illustrated piece written for "vanity fair," "time" magazine and to the oxforthe oxfordamerican. assignments have propelled him across the u.s., so we are proud to have been spending so much time in pennsylvania and canada as well as the columbia, argentina, bolivia, cuba where he wrote a book abou the book ad sports, jamaica, kenya, france, pakistan, brazil, australia, greece, japan, and china. he's covered ten the olympic games, two world cups and countless grand slam tennis championships. he's interviewed presidentsnt george w. bush and bill clinton and played barack obama one-on-one and in iowa ymca. the reviews have been mad raving and