Sports category: 37872 books
The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from Ring Lardner to Sally Jenkins
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A first-of-its-kind celebration of the newspaper scribes who made sportswriting a glorious popular art, and immortalized America's greatest games and athletes
Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box...
The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting
Everything You Need to Guide Your Young Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
For more than a decade, former basketball coach Dan Doyle has been traveling the country, speaking to student-athletes and their parents about their involvement in and dedication to every sport imaginable. As founder and executive director of the Institute of International Sport at the University...
Tales from the University of South Carolina Gamecocks Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Gamecock Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
With one of the most amazing football turnarounds in NCAA history, from 0-21 in 1998-99 to a 2001 Outback Bowl victory over Ohio State and six subsequent championships since, the South Carolina Gamecocks rang in the new century with a bang. For 45 years, author Tom Price was in Columbia, South Carolina...
Why Michael Couldn't Hit, and Other Tales of the Neurology of Sports
And Other Tales Of The Neurology Of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
The author who told us why Toscanini fumbled and why Newton raved takes us on a tour of the great brains of great athletes--baseball players and basketball players, track stars and golfers--to show how both accomplishment and tragedy may be the result of some unusual neurons.
In Why Michael...
Sport, Medicine and Health
The medicalization of sport?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of changing political economies, altered perceptions of the body and science’s developing contribution to the human...
The Feminization of Sports Fandom
A Sociological Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Women fans have entered the traditionally male domain of the sports stadium in growing numbers in recent years. Watching professional sport is important for women for so many reasons, but their expectations and experiences have been largely ignored by academics. This book tackles these shortcomings...
by Emmett L. Gill Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The book will examine Rutgers enormous investment in its collegiate athletics, in particular, its emerging football program and steady women’s basketball program, and the myriad of scandals that have come to characterize the athletic program (and university) over the last eighteen years. The book also...
Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, yet few scholarly articles have been published on these works. In Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries, editors Zachary Ingle and David M. Sutera have assembled a collection of essays that show how myth and identity—national, religious,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
New media technologies have become a central part of the sports media landscape. Sports fans use new media to watch games, discuss sports transactions, form fan-based communities, and secure minutiae about their favorite players and teams. Never before have fans known so much about athletes, whether...
by Dominic F L Southgate, Peter R N Childs, Anthony M J Bull
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Sports Innovation, Technology and Research gives an insight into recent research and design projects at Imperial College London. It presents the on-going development of a diverse range of areas from elite rowing performance to impact protection to sporting amenities in communities.
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Encyclopaedia of Sports Injuries and Medicine
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
This book which is entitled Encyclopedia of Sports Injuries and Medicines in which different aspects of sports injuries and their management have been dealt properly. All the terms have been arranged alphabetically by which information can be understood easily and effectively. For this purpose, author...
The Sportswriter Who Punched Sam McDowell
And Other Sports Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
When he retired in 2006, Bob Dolgan had been a sportswriter for forty-five years at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Known for his unique perspectives on sports figures, Dolgan’s style, instincts, and experience as a reporter were evident in his columns that were beloved by his readers and admired by...
Sports Idols' Idols
First Heroes of Our Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
You probably had a childhood idolthat one special person who meant the world to you. It might have been a family member, a teacher or a coach. Its also quite possible you were first drawn to a professional athlete you saw on television or read about in a magazine or newspaper. Many of us once dreamed...
by Stuart George
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This new Supplementary Dictionary of Sports Personalities contains over 250 biographical entries on famous individuals from the world of sports. Spanning a wide range of sporting disciplines, including cricket, football, javelin, boxing, and bullfighting, this A-Z provides all the information you...