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The Netball Practice Bible
Essential Drills, Session Plans and Coaching Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Based on the popular 101 Youth Netball Drills titles, this is a practical training manual for anyone coaching netball. Packed with drills, training sessions, advice and much much more, this invaluable resource will help you plan effective training sessions and prepare teams for matches, along with...
by Kevin Sivils
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Free throws and lay-ups win games but the 3-point shot is the great equalizer. Since the shot's introduction to the game in the 1980's, the 3-point shot has allowed the skilled but smaller player once again to become a factor in the outcome of the game. Fans love it! Players love it! Some coaches...
by Mario Blasone
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Coach Blasone reaches with this book a beautiful balance between knowledge and experience. Any show of culture even if he could do it easily.He designs many offensive anddefensive drills with clear ideas. He looks to be teaching on the floor like running a practice,with good advices in order to have a good job from his players.
Steve Nash
The Unlikely Ascent of a Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
From the authors of the national bestseller Leafs AbomiNation, the story behind the success of one of Canada's greatest athletes, NBA all-star Steve Nash.
A small man in a big man's game, a white man in a game dominated by black men, a rare Canadian in a US-based industry, the unlikely rise...
by Jack Isenhour
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Bob Knight often remarks he never got over West Point. Its where the legend cut his teeth and formulated his coaching style. Its where he learned he had to wingotta win. Jack Isenhour, a player on that first team, examines that formative rookie year of the surefire Hall-of-Famer and gives firsthand descriptions of Knights departure from Indiana and rebirth at Texas Tech.
Dynasty
The San Antonio Spurs' Timeless 2014 Championship
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This commemorative book on the 2014 NBA champion San Antonio Spurs provides a visual look at the Spurs’ exciting road to championship glory. Through insightful articles by Jesse Blanchard and nearly 100 full-color images, this celebratory book takes readers from the season's first games in November...
El entrenador y el equipo
Aprendiendo a ser un buen entrenador de formación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Un entrenador es alguien que anima a los jugadores de su equipo, alguien que se entusiasma por tener a los jugadores de los que dispone. Alguien que valora el esfuerzo requerido y que se sacrifica por el equipo. Enseñar un deporte de equipo es una labor de insistente trabajo, un estar siempre en...
Everything You Wanted to Know About the New York Knicks
A Who's Who of Everyone Who Ever Played On or Coached the NBA's Most Celebrated Team
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
This encyclopedic listing of every man who played on or coached the New York Knicks from the team's inception in 1946 to the present is jam-packed with details on everything from a player's careers statistics to his height, weight, and jersey number. Included is information about a player's life before...
Jeremy Lin
The Incredible Rise of the NBA's Most Unlikely Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Who would have thought that an Asian American who majored in economics at Harvard would become the NBA’s most talked about star? While the story seems more like Hollywood fantasy, it has really happened.
Undrafted out of college and waived in short order by the Golden State Warriors and Houston...
Team Psychology in Sports
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The ability to mould a group of talented individual athletes into an effective team takes effort and skill. Team Psychology in Sports examines the crucial factors in the development of an effective team, introducing important psychological and organizational concepts and offering evidence-based interventions...
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...
Hi Mom, Send Sheep!
My Life as the Coyote and After
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
At 47, Tim Derk had long been the San Antonio Spur’s crowd-pleasing Coyote and was widely regarded as the NBA’s funniest, most inventive mascot. Then, as the Spurs were headed toward their third championship, Derk suffered a massive stroke and his seemingly charmed existence was shattered. Here,...
by David Seigerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Before she was scoring goals, Becky Sauerbrunn was just a kid trying to fit in. Learn more in this first book in a brand-new nonfiction series about the childhoods of your favorite athletes.
Midway through her first soccer game for the US Women’s National Team, Becky Sauerbrunn broke her...