Contents
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Gable Trained: An Introduction
1. Puzzling
2. A Special Place
3. Show Me the Way: The Peterson Brothers
4. Iowa State to Iowa: The Move in Hindsight
5. Life Directions
6. The Unexpected Becomes Expected
7. Mama’s Boys
8. Royce, Mark, and Bruce: The Toughest, the Smartest, and the Hardest Worker
9. Ten Miles × Two
10. Equalizers Rule
11. It’s More Than Just a Name
12. Just Normal
13. Truth Serum
14. Total Confidence
15. Fan Favorites
16. Know Your Limit
17. The Smartness of Hard Work
18. The Missing Year-Round Plan
19. Sign of the Times
20. Big Ten Streak
21. The Sun Rises, the Sun Sets
22. The Final Season
23. Crazy but True
24. Regrets—Not Many
25. Cartered, Bushed, Trumped, and the IOC
26. The Run for or From
27. The Mirror
28. The Gable Edge
25 Years of All-Americans and Big Ten Champions in My Words, 1973–1997
Names in the Sport
Index