Roland Lazenby

An American sportswriter and educator.

Roland Lazenby is an American sportswriter and educator. Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about basketball and American football. He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers. Lazenby’s book Bull Run! was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association. Lazenby studied at Virginia Military Institute and Hollins University, and has been a member of Virginia Tech’s Department of Communication and Radford University’s School of Communication.