Sports category: 37872 books
Detroit
City of Champions
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Professional sports have played an important part in the history of the people and the City of Detroit since the turn of the century. Detroit sports teams have given the city a unique identity and provided the means to gain both a sense of community pride and a unity of spirit. At no other time was...
Sports Briefs
The Best of Fanstop's Christopher Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Huh-huh.Funny.
If youre familiar with the writings of Christopher Wilson, you have, no doubt, elicited a similar response.If youve never had the pleasure of reading Wilson, then you are fickinta be in for a treat.
Sports Briefs is a collection of Wilsons 68 best columns from FanStop.com.Youll...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
In this book an international group of sports scientists examine the major sports and the physiological demands of each.
by Eric Landa
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book contains proven steps and strategies for athletes and sports coaches on how to be successful. We’ll discuss the development of talented athletes, their training and the different stages of learning; the kind of training athletes need to improve their performances and why they should stop...
Win
Proven Strategies for Success in Sport, Life and Mental Health.
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
'Visualise your goals and achieve your potential.'
Easy-to-follow and extremely effective, Win will change the way you think about all aspects of your life.
From well-known personality and rugby commentator Brent Pope and psychotherapist and mental skills coach Jason Brennan, Win: Proven Strategies...
by Byron Rempel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
There was never anyone like the Wurtele twins in Alpine skiing: identical in looks, different in attitude, unbeatable on the slopes. Now, with author Byron Rempel's unprecedented access to all Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele's memorabilia and scrapbooks, this entertaining book reveals the full story...
Invisible Seasons
Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made...
by Karl Morris, Joe Sillet
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Mentality examines how 16 leading sports personalities in Britain made it to the top. What does it take to perform at the highest level? What can we learn from their experiences? With an enlightening collection of insights by Joe Sillett and summaries from Europe's leading Mind Coach Karl Morris,...
Model Coach
A Common Sense Guide for Coaches of Youth Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Winning isn't everything.
It's becoming more and more evident: Parents and coaches are losing sight of the purpose and value of youth sports programs. Youth sports should be as much about developing social skills, understanding what it takes to become a leader, and learning how to become a...
Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport
Ethical, Legal and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant anti-doping policy and...
From the Babe to the Beards
The Boston Red Sox in the World Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
With the Curse” a distant memory, the Boston Red Sox are the first team this century to win three World Series titles. Before 2004, an obnoxious Yankees fan might have smirked: The Red Sox in the World Series? The world’s shortest book!”
In actual fact, the Red Sox have played in twelve...
Philadelphia Phillies
Where Have You Gone?
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Philadelphia Phillies fans are not casual about their favorite team or its players. These intense and loyal fans expect a full effort from their charges, regardless of the outcome. Philadelphia Phillies: Where Have You Gone? takes an informative stroll down memory lane and includes information about...
Rangers vs. Islanders
Denis Potvin, Mark Messier, and Everything Else You Wanted to Know about New York?s Greatest Hockey Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The intrastate rivalry between the Islanders and the Rangers is like no other in the NHL. Playing in the same league and with home rinks mere miles from one another, these two teams face off against each other multiple times a season. With devoted fans on either side backing their personal hometown...
Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Demon Deacon Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Based on the gold-standard currency of tradition and success, few college basketball programs are richer in history than Wake Forest University’s. This reissue of Tales from the Wake Forest Demon Deacons Locker Room, first published in 2004, traces that vibrant history from the birth of the league...