Sports category: 37872 books
by Patsy Loski
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
So you're interested in joining your school's wrestling team or want to wrestle for tournaments? Wrestling is one of the world's oldest sports, and more complicated than you might think. This book will go over the basics as they are practiced in sports, but there are many different kinds of wrestling,...
Badass Survival Secrets
Essential Skills to Survive Any Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
History is filled with incredible stories of the mountain men, experts in survival who relied on nothing except their own skills and ingenuity. If you want to learn to be one of them, then this is the book for you. Badass Survival Secrets will introduce you to everything that you need to be a modern...
by Gianmarc Manzione
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
"The Color of Money" meets "The Big Lebowski." Pin Action is an inspiring and improbable story of transcendence, redemption, survival and one of the greatest, forgotten sports legends in New York City sports history.
Most of us think of bowling as a "sport" in...
Don Shula
A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In Don Shula: A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History, acclaimed sports historian Carlo DeVito captures the story of one of the greatest coaches in sports history. First distinguishing himself as a player with the Cleveland Browns (under the great Paul Brown), Baltimore Colts, and Washington...
Tales from the New York Rangers Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Rangers Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In the late 1960s the New York Rangers transformed from NHL also-rans to Stanley Cup contenders. Gilles Villemure was part of that transformation. The little goaltender had a long wait to make it to the National Hockey League, which had only six teams until after the middle of the decade. Eventually...
by Esa Illoinen, John Starkey
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The illustrated record of all Lola cars from 1978 to 1997. The knowledge of three experts pooled to provide full detail on all the different types of Lola - single-seaters and sports racing cars of this period. A Lola T70 owner/racer, John Starkey is also the author of the much acclaimed Lola T70 (also published by Veloce).
Game of My Life: Cleveland Browns
Memorable Stories of Browns Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
For the city of Cleveland and the fans of the Browns, it’s not just a football team: it’s a way of life. From rabid fan clubs all around the country to fans around Northeast Ohio wearing the colors of the brown and orange, time stops when the Browns take the field each week. The team joined the...
Extreme Landscapes of Leisure
Not a Hap-Hazardous Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable. They are now exemplary, mainstream even:...
Racing the Sunset
How Athletes Survive, Thrive, or Fail in Life After Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A seventh-generation Californian, Scott Tinley led the quintessential Golden State dream. As he grew from beach rat to lifeguard to a recreational administration major, it seemed only natural to him that he would try to parlay the athletic skills gleaned from this idyllic lifestyle into a profession...
Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research
An Epistemology of Sport
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study, Graham McFee argues...
Red Stockings and Out-of-Towners
Sports in Utah
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
Long before professional basketball came to Utah in 1970, the state boasted an impressive record in other sports including its share of superstars: Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight boxing champion, 1919-26; Iver Lawson, international cycling champion, 1904; Alf Engen whose world ski-jumping records...
by Prof Philip F Harris, Dr Craig Ranson, Dr Angus Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
When examining patients with sports-related and exercise-related injuries, a thorough knowledge of anatomy is vital in order to make an accurate diagnosis and work out an effective treatment plan. In this helpful, practical book, a professional anatomist, an orthopaedic surgeon and a sports physiotherapist...
by Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
This reference offers a step-by-step, “how-to approach on performing both open and arthroscopic surgeries for sports-related injuries of the knee, elbow, and shoulder. Leaders in sports medicine offer guidance on everything from patient positioning and the latest surgical techniques through pearls...
Onward to Victory
The Creation of Modern College Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder.
With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts,...