Shakarra+Dickert

=__**Gary Gaines**__=

//By: Shakarra Dickert//

Gary Gaines (born May 4, 1949) was the head coach of the 1988 Permian High School football team which was the focus of the H.G. Bissinger book Friday Night Lights. Coach Gary Gaines was the 17th head college football coach for the Abilene Christian University Wildcats located in Abilene, Texas and he held that position for five seasons, from 2000 until 2004. Gaines' coaching record at Abilene Christian was 21 wins, 30 losses, and 0 ties. In 2005 Gaines would then move on to serve as the athletic director for Ector County Independent School District, the same district of which Permian High School is a part. On March 9, 2009, Permian announced that Gaines would return as head coach of Permian after Darren Allman left for Austin Westlake. Coach Gary Gaines is also a public speaker. He has won district championships at Petersburg, Monahans, Permian and San Angelo Central high schools (About Coach Gary Gaines) http://www.kylgrafx.com/mojo/gaines.htm

=__**HG Bissinger**__=

//By: Shakarra Dickert//

Harry Gerard Bissinger was born on November 1, 1954, in New York City. In order to get a job at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, he changed his byline from “Buzzy Bissinger” to H.G. Bissinger, as he never went by his birth name in his works. After leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1988, where he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, he became a nonfiction novelist, which saw his 1989 book Friday Night Lights turned into a movie in 2004. He currently works as an article-writer for Vanity Fair, where he averages three pieces a year. In 1988, Bissinger left the City of Brotherly Love, moving his family to live in Odessa, Texas for a year. The subjects of the story were less than thrilled. (Bissinger, Harry Gerald III (buzz)) pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/**bio**s/**Bissinger**__Buzz.html