Sports category: 37872 books
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Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
The sport lover's ultimate road trip
When Jim Gorant, a Sports Illustrated staffer and lifelong sports fan, discovered that he had never attended a single one of sports' most iconic events, he wondered, What kind of sports fan am I, anyway? And if he had to pick the top ten, what would those...
by Erik Oestenkjaer
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The ability to hypnotize is not innate, but techniques and methods that can be learned and developed through experience.
This book represents professional experiences with hypnosis of particular athletes.
Sports hypnosis can help players score goals, get out of crisis, cyclists not to fear...
Sacramento Kings
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The first NBA Western Conference franchise to be featured in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the Numbers series!
THE TEAM: The Sacramento Kings are one of the oldest franchises in NBA history with one World Championship, nine Hall of Fame players, twenty-nine playoff appearances,...
Until It Hurts
America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Near the end of a long season, fourteen-year-old baseball pitcher Ben Hyman approached his father with disappointing, if not surprising, news: his pitching shoulder was tired. With each throw to home plate, he felt a twinge in his still maturing arm. Any doctor would have advised the young boy to...
Strategic Sports Event Management
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The hosting of sports events – whether large international events, or smaller niche events – can have a significant and long-lasting impact on the local environment, economy and society.
Strategic Sports Event Management provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic...
Sports Bucket List
101 Sights Every Fan Has to See Before the Clock Runs Out
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
For every dedicated sports fan, a unique lifetime list of the 101 most important games, matches, venues, and events around the world, illustrated with color photographs and collated by a pair of Sports Illustrated veterans.
For more than twenty years, Rob Fleder and Steve Hoffman captured the...
by Roger Sam
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
***Do You Want To Improve Your Tennis With Sports Psychology?******Have Been Training For Years But Can't Seem To Improve Your Tennis Game?******Want To Start Winning More Games And Tournament?***Tennis is a mental game which requires a lot of discipline. You need to be constantly on your...
Sports Analytics and Data Science
Winning the Game with Methods and Models
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
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This up-to-the-minute reference will help you master all three facets of sports analytics — and use it to win!
Sports...
Best Wisconsin Sports Arguments
The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard Fans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
An essential sports reference for Packers, Badgers, Brewers, and Bucks fans!
Brand-new to the popular Best Sports Arguments series, The Best Wisconsin Sports Arguments looks at the great debates from the most-loved sports of the state of Wisconsin, including:
The great Favre debate: who's...
New York Yankees
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The first MLB franchise to be featured in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the NumbersTM series!
THE TEAM: The New York Yankees is the greatest franchise in sports history with forty Hall of Fame legends, thirty-nine American League Pennants, twenty-six World Series titles,...
by Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson, Trudo Dejonghe
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Sports Economics is the ideal introduction for all sport management and sport policy students and those for whom economics is a relatively new area of study. The book will also provide an ideal introduction to sports economics for economics students new to the area. Specifically designed to make economics...
by Chris Gratton, Harry Arne Solberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today’s lucrative international market. This textbook explains the economics underlying the sports broadcasting phenomenon.
The specific regulatory culture governing sports broadcasting means that the financial...
International Sports Events
Impacts, Experiences and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first section...
by Christopher Madden, MD, FACSM
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Netter’s Sports Medicine, by Christopher C. Madden, MD, Margot Putukian, MD, FACSM, Craig C. Young, MD, and Eric C. McCarty, MD, is a reference designed to help you meet the challenges presented by your patients in this growing interdisciplinary field. More than 1,000 Netter images, along with photos...