Jim Dent (author)

Harry James Dent (born 1953) is an American author and sportswriter. He wrote The Junction Boys, a New York Times best-selling book about Bear Bryant's Junction Boys,[1] Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football, and The Kids Got It Right: How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls. The Junction Boys was adopted as an ESPN movie with the same name in 2002. He covered the NFL's Dallas Cowboys as a sportswriter for 11 years.[2] In 2003, Dent was sentenced to eight years in prison under a plea agreement with Brazos County prosecutors for violating his drunk driving probation.[3] In 2015, Dent was sentenced to ten years in prison after jumping bail following his tenth conviction for drunk driving.[4]

This article is about the author. For the golfer, see Jim Dent.

References
  1. Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football, Google Books, retrieved 2008-04-10
  2. Southern Fried Sooner: The Buddy Leake Story - University of Oklahoma Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2008-04-10
  3. Dent sentenced under plea agreement, ESPN retrieved 2008-11-08
  4. "Football writer Jim Dent gets 10 years in prison for 10 DWIs". Retrieved 2015-04-16.


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