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So You Think You're a Kentucky Wildcats Basketball Fan?
Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
More than a just a trivia book, So You Think You’re A Kentucky Basketball Fan challenges your knowledge of Wildcats basketball with stories behind each question and answer that brings the history of this legendary team to life.
This book, part of a new sports trivia series, is divided into four...
Doping in Elite Sports
Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The first study to span the period from 1950 to 2010, it sheds new light on the extraordinary world of elite sport in...
Sports and Christianity
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of...
Boost!
How the Psychology of Sports Can Enhance your Performance in Management and Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological...
by Sandalio Gómez, Kimio Kase, Ignacio Urrutia
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
The sports business has become one of the fastest-growing industries in recent years. Sports organizations now have the potential to generate massive amounts of revenue through a variety of different channels, including broadcasting rights, advertising and branding. However, the rise of sports-related...
Four Histories about Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920
Constructing Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Praise for Four Histories about Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920
*'*Academic historians of sport will relate to many of the problems Piercey has faced when putting together his histories, and the book is accordingly useful for thinking about what alternative futures of the study and writing...
Sport, History, and Heritage
Studies in Public Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly...
Having a Career Day
101 Incredible Baseball Feats
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Longtime sportswriter and baseball fan Stan Fischler goes beyond the generic sports tale, recounting the funniest, most incredible stories from throughout the Great American Pastime’s long history. Covering teams from across the league, Fischler details the following feats, and 95 more:
Joe...
by Frank Giampaolo
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the world of high performance sports, successful athletes need both customized hardware (Mechanics & Athleticism) as well as pre-set software (Mental & Emotional) skills to thrive in competition. Emotional Aptitude in Sports takes a deeper look into the emotional dominance every athlete seeks....
by David Berri, Martin Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats. Why sports decision-makers...
Native Games
Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in different...
Wrigley Field Year by Year
A Century at the Friendly Confines
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the Friendly Confines,” this is the first book to detail...
God Cares About Sports
Your 30-Day Spiritual Training Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Have you ever felt like you still had more to offer your team?
Many athletes struggle, thinking that Go only wants to be part of their lives when they are at church.
In this book, I will show you how God wants to be part of every area of your life including sports. This book will challenge...
Sports Weird-o-Pedia
The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
By any standard of normal behavior, sports cannot escape the definition of weirdness.
Sports achievements have the capacity to inspire and excite watchers, whether through athletic brilliance or magnificent team performance, but there are times when our athletes and teams go wacko on us, and...