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by Fran Dunphy, Lawrence Hsieh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From one of the most highly respected college coaches in the nation, the only book to show how to teach winning basketball plays to kids age 14 and under
Like no other, The Baffled Parent's Guide to Great Basketball Plays gives you a total playbook for coaching middle and junior-high schoolers...
Success Is the Only Option
The Art of Coaching Extreme Talent
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Kentucky’s charismatic coach shares the secrets of creating one of the premiere programs in college basketball, revealing how he transforms a group of former high school superstars into selfless, cohesive teams—including a remarkable squad last year that fell just one game short of a perfect season.
Kentucky...
Season of the 76ers
The Story of Wilt Chamberlain and the 1967 NBA Champion Philadelphia 76ers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Destroying a dynasty.
That was the mission of Wilt Chamberlain and 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers.
For eight straight years, the Boston Celtics had dominated the National Basketball Association. Each and every season during that stretch, a new NBA championship flag was hoisted to the top...
by Roger Lee Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Courtney Moses was always about basketball, from an early age playing AAU ball, up and through grade school. In the 7th grade, the high school coaches saw a girl with skills and moves that far out did other girls her own age.
What would possess a little girl from Sweetser, Indiana to dream...
by Tom Penders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Renowned college basketball coach Tom Penders revisits his successful, if tumultuous, career in a new autobiography Dead Coach Walking: Tom Penders Surviving and Thriving in College Hoops. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history, Penders reflects on four decades steering...
by Keith Miniscalco, Greg Kot
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
You volunteered to coach the basketball team, but are you really ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball has the answers.
Yes, the wildly popular and entertaining...
The Game They Played
The True Story of the Point-Shaving Scandal That Destroyed One of College Basketball's Greatest Teams
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: The riveting story of the point-shaving scandal that shook college basketball to its core
It was the ultimate Cinderella sports story. Unranked heading into the 1949–50 season, the City College basketball team delighted their...
Big Game, Small World
A Basketball Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
Alex Wolff canvasses the globe and travels to 16 different countries (and 10 states in the U.S.) to find out exactly why basketball has become a worldwide phenomenon. Whether it's in a pick-up game on the Royal court in Bhutan, in the heart of a former female college player of the year turned cloistered...
Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Duke Basketball Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Duke Blue Devils have a long and glorious history of success, and that history comes alive in this newly revised edition of Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room. The Blue Devils’ storied past includes forty NCAA tournament appearances, sixteen trips to the final four, and five national...
by Kevin Sivils
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Coaches spend lots of time preparing to teach offense and defense before the start of practice each season. Most teams are reasonably well prepared to execute their basic offensive and defensive systems. Many of these same teams struggle when it comes to the game of basketball's "offensive"...
by Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Barber brothers know their way around a football field—but can they succeed on the basketball court? Find out in this slam dunk with “lively basketball action and life lessons aplenty (Kirkus Reviews)” from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber.
As Tiki and...
The Baron and the Bear
Rupp's Runts, Haskins's Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s—part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation...
by Patrick Hite
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Paul Hatcher won 897 games as the head coach of the Robert E. Lee High School boys" basketball team in Staunton. Astoundingly, he won 85 in a row from 2003 to 2006. In a career spanning forty-three years, Hatcher won four state titles, was named coach of the year an amazing eleven times and is a member...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Top Defensive Players in Basketball of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria....