According to a source, we hear that ESPN’s Andy Katz was close to writing a book with Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson - who’s brother-in-law is President Barack Obama - but recently lost out to Aram Goudsouzian, a history professor who wrote this book on Sidney Poitier. As our source tells it, Katz and Robinson are friendly - you may recall Katz is the one who talked brackets with President Obama - and after the Final Four, ESPN’s top college basketball reporter went to Corvalis to spend a few days with Robinson. The working title, according to a January AP story, is ‘A Game of Character.’ [UPDATE: Goudsouzian emailed us saying that he is not authoring the book.]