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by Brian E. O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
This is a story which can help you become a 90% or better Free Throw Shooter using my method which I call "The Net Technique." The first time I tried shooting with this method my percentage was 86% which meant I had a 15% better average than in my High School days. I'm now shooting 97%....
Games of Deception
The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the remarkable true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany. Perfect for fans of The Boys in the Boat and Unbroken.
On a scorching hot day in July 1936, thousands of people cheered...
Ted Strong Jr.
The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Ted Strong Jr. (1917-1978) was a two-sport athlete, a major star of the Negro Leagues and one of the original Harlem Globetrotters. His prominence in the Negro Leagues led Branch Rickey and other white baseball league owners to consider Strong as one of several possible players to integrate major...
Asian American Basketball
A Century of Sport, Community and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans actually play basketball. Indeed, long before Lin shook up the NBA, Asian Americans played the game with passion and skill, and many excelled at high school,...
Desi Hoop Dreams
Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi...
Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Indiana Basketball Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Tales From the Indiana Hoosier Locker Room covers over a century of Indiana University basketball. Current and former Hoosiers talk of the excitement, the disappointment, and the celebration that has turned IU basketball into a statewide religion. The history of the Indiana program is revealed through...
Dick Vitale's Mount Rushmores of College Basketball
Solid Gold Prime Time Performers From My Four Decades at ESPN
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
One day, I was sitting with a bunch of my buddies and, as usual, the conversation was all about sports. We began to battle back and forth about whether anyone would supplant Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time in the world of basketball. It has been generally felt by many experts that...
by Murry R. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
From the time conference play began in 1905, the Big Ten was the Western force in collegiate basketball. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Purdue were the first powers in the league, with a combined 23 titles by 1930. Purdue was dominant in the ’30s, with seven titles under Coach Piggy Lambert, including...
by David Ranney
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Why Go Another Day Missing Basket After Basket
And Free Throw After Free Throw?
Want To Learn A Better Way Of Shooting?
Using Zen principles, like being in the present moment, non-judgment, enhanced focus, awareness and letting your body flow are centuries old ideas that lead...
Over Time
Coach Katte on Basketball and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Coach Dick Katte's secret is simple and straightforward; work very hard and demand the same from your team, adapt to the changes in players and parents over time and never waver from the core principles that make you one of the most honored and respected coaches in the nation s high school basketball...
by Dennis Gaub
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
March 15, 1969: a dozen overachieving teenagers, none taller than 6-foot-2, made Montana high school history. The Laurel Locomotives toppled the larger (in terms of school enrollment and lineup size) Kalispell Braves, in overtime to finish 26-0 and capture their school’s first state basketball championship....
by Ian Levy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The basketball writers of Hickory-High have collaborated on a lengthy review of the 2013-2014 NBA season, a yearbook if you will. While we don't have the pictures and visual elements of your old dusty high school yearbook, we do have memories from the regular season and playoffs, senior superlatives,...
Canyon Dreams
A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.
Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated...
Game of My Life University of Kansas Jayhawks
Memorable Stories of Jayhawk Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The night of April 4, 1988 will forever live in the hearts of fans of Jayhawks basketball. On that night, the Jayhawks and their fans raucously celebrated the team’s first national title since 1952. This game for the ages is one of 22 contests joyously recalled in this reissue of Steve Buckner’s...