Sports imprint: 713 books
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...
by Joe Falls
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
In his very first trip to the ballpark, Joe Falls watched Lou Gehrig slam two home runs against the Philadelphia As. He's been in love with professional sports ever since. In this humerous and intellegent memoir, Falls reflects on over sixty years of writing with stories about all the greats from...
Bob Logan's Tales from Chicago Sports
Cubs, Bulls, Bears, and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Tales from Chicago Sports: Cubs, Bulls, Bears and Other Animals will combine stories, anecdotes, columns and fun stuff about the Windy City's sports teams, woven together by text of Bob Logan's personal memories and tales...some taller than others. It will include vignettes about Chicago personalities...
by Editors of Sports Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
For more than 50 years, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been the gold standard of sports writing, and during that time, football-once a popular college pastime but only a rag-tag professional game-has moved to center stage, taking its unquestioned place as America's most popular sport. This book brings together...
Fun City
John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city’s transit workers went on strike. This was the first day on the job for Mayor John Lindsay—a handsome, young former congressman with presidential aspirations—and he would approach the issue with an unconventional outlook that would...
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
College Football and the Politics of Rape
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Jessica Luther is one of the foremost experts on sexual assault and football. This book is based on exhaustive research on all documented cases of sexual assault allegations against college football players.
Luther is a fellow in the Texas Program in Sports and Media at the University of Texas...
So You Think You're a Dallas Cowboys Fan?
Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
So You Think You’re a Dallas Cowboys Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of America’s Team. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each-stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons.
This book, the first in a new sports...
by Jim Turpinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
In Turpin Times, Jim Turpin, the radio play-by-play voice of University of Illinois football and basketball for the past 40 years, takes readers behind the scenes for an intimate glimpse of players, coaches, and others associated with big-time intercollegiate athletics. Turpin follows the Illini through...
Drama in the Bahamas
Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the...
Redeeming Sports
Thinking biblically about competition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From Bob Schindler, author of *Does God Care Who Wins? *and Tim Briggs, a collection of essays considering competition from a biblical perspective. Schindler and Briggs consider such questions as "How do you know when sports are an idol?" and "Was there competition in the Garden?" They explore the ways sports reveal character and what it means to play for joy.
Sports Psychology and All Round Development
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Sports psychology helps the sports teacher to develophis team with best athletic qualities, As sports have a wide range of special activities which are used efficiently to develop thechildren in all totalities.
by Dr. B.J. Srinivasaraju
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
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