Sports category: 37872 books
Death to the BCS
The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A team of award-winning sports reporters takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series.
Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Division I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship...
The Heritage
Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism
Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal
It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church...
Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way
Ensuring the Best Experience for Your Kids in Any Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Since he retired from baseball in 2001, Cal Ripken, Jr., has devoted his time to coaching kids, including his own son and daughter, who play baseball and basketball, among other sports. With a baseball league of nearly 700,000 kids, ages 5-12, named for him, he has also had a chance to meet and work...
How Champions Think
In Sports and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
America’s preeminent sports psychologist delivers a groundbreaking guide to success in all aspects of life—not just sports—from business to relationships to personal challenges of every variety.
Acclaimed sports psychologist Bob Rotella has advised everyone from professional golfers to...
Upon Further Review
The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
**Now a New York Times bestseller!
"Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington Post**
From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's...
Fathers & Daughters & Sports
Featuring Jim Craig, Chris Evert, Mike Golic, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sally Jenkins, Steve Rushin, Bill Simmons, and others
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
An inspiring anthology of sports short stories for any father, daughter or parent
Thank heavens for Title IX. That dusty piece of 1970s legislation not only made an entire generation of American women fitter and stronger and more self-confident, but it also gave fathers throughout the country...
by Don Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Don Cherry has become a broadcasting legend, garnering millions of fans around the world with his "Coach's Corner" segment on Hockey Night in Canada. For over a decade, Cherry also hosted the TV show Grapevine, which brought viewers up close and personal with the biggest names in sports.
Don...
How To Become A NFL Sports Agent
Step-By-Step Instructions
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
How To Become A NFL Sports Agent - Offers a basic overview of an NFL agent's responsibilities, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to be a NFL sports agent including potential monetary rewards and perks. Additionally, we cover the educational and certification requirements, along with other procedures...
How To Become A Sports Agent
Step-By-Step Instructions
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
How To Become a Sports Agent - Offers an overview of an agent's responsibilities, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to be a sports agent including potential monetary rewards and perks. Additionally, we cover the educational and certification requirements, along with other procedures you will...
by Drew Sharp, Terry Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Any sports fan knows that nothing brings on more passion and opinion than a good old-fashioned debate. Drew Sharp and Terry Foster are no different, as they take on the top debates of all time in Detroit sports.
Super Agent
The One Book the NFL and NCAA Don't Want You to Read
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Super Agent. Maverick. Reformer. Iconoclast. Dealmaker. Dentist? Jerry Argovitz has worn many hats in his remarkable life, both inside and outside of the world of sports. As a player agent representing and advising some of the biggest names in the game, Argovitz challenged the NFL both at the negotiating...
Chill Factor
How a Minor-League Hockey Team Changed a City Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The city of Columbus, Ohio, had always struggled to support any professional sports franchise. It’s a town where Ohio State University reigns supreme, and everything else is less important. That was until 1991, when the Columbus Chill, a minor-league hockey franchise, arrived. Using Veeckian marketing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year’s guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly...
Lamar Hunt
A Life in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
"I can't separate what part of pro football is business and what part is personal with me," he said. "I just know that it is very important that I succeed."He had loved games as a young boy, had played them as a young man, and now, as a naive but determined 27-year-old in the summer of 1959,...