Basketball category: 1106 books
Tales from the Vanderbilt Commodores
A Collection of the Greatest Commodore Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Though boasting a smaller student body than most other Southeastern Conference schools, Vanderbilt University’s spirit and passion is without bounds-and with good reason. This book highlights several Vandy sports programs whose teams have shined over the course of the school’s athletic history...
Fight, Grin & Squarely Play the Game
The 1945 Loyola New Orleans Basketball Championship & Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
In 1945, the Loyola New Orleans Wolf Pack became the city's first basketball team to earn a national championship. The Cinderella season was chronicled in the "Times Picayune," the student newspaper "The Maroon" and letters from students and alums fighting overseas. The 1944-45 run to the championship...
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
A True Story of Hoop Dreams and One Very Special Team
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
“Beautifully written . . . A celebration of girls and athletics.” The national bestselling sports classic from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (USA Today).
Expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Madeleine Blais’ book tells the story of a season in the life of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes,...
Heart on Wheels
Amazin' Stories from the Life of Tommy Hicks 1954-2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
The book you are holding is the result of an extraordinary exchange of love. It often showed up as hilarious laughter, enormous tomfoolery, good times, practical jokes, furious frustration expressed at outcomes of sporting events, and other events and noises that some people might misinterpret as...
by Nerio Borioli
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2015
130 profili di giocatori di basket NCAA in uscita dal college e pronti per il mondo professionistico.Uno scouting report completo di statistiche e valutazioni accurate.Ogni scheda possiede un link per accedere direttamente ai siti delle universita' di provenienza dei giocatori.Un libro fondamentale...
by Davide Piasentini
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Il grunge e la pallacanestro. Due mondi che si intrecciano profondamente all'interno delle storie di uomini che hanno illuminato la scena cestistica americana negli anni novanta e all'inizio del nuovo millennio. Se i musicisti grunge trovavano rifugio solamente nella musica, allo stesso modo questi...
by Don Shelby
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
The Season Never Ends is a collection of charming stories about the game of basketball and life lessons learned on the court. Written over a 26 year period of time, they are stories about his youth in Indiana, coaching his daughters and tales hes picked up along. Written with the same humor and compassion...
Eleven Rings
The Soul of Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The inside story of one of basketball's most legendary and game-changing figures
A New York Times bestseller
During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports....
Playing for Keeps
Michael Jordan and the World He Made
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar— “The best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post).
One of sport’s biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam’s...
Return of the King
LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Greatest Comeback in NBA History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Now a New York Times bestseller!
The inside story of LeBron James's return and ultimate triumph in Cleveland.
What really happened when LeBron James stunned the NBA by leaving a potential dynasty in Miami to come home to play with the Cleveland Cavaliers? How did the Cavs use secret...
Seven Seconds or Less
My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
In Seven Seconds or Less, Sports Illustrated's chief NBA writer, Jack McCallum, gets in the paint with the Phoenix Suns and takes a season-long look at the NBA's most exciting and controversial team.
A few weeks before the 2005-2006 NBA training camps began, Jack McCallum called the Phoenix...
Standing Tall
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on...
by Bill Walton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“An elegiac yet exuberant new memoir” (The New York Times Book Review)—Bill Walton’s New York Times bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) have inspired his darkest hours.
In...
Players First
Coaching from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Now with a new chapter on the Wildcats' legendary comeback in the 2014 Final Four
John Calipari, one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, presents the world of college basketball from the coach's chair, unvarnished and straight from the heart. Players First is Calipari's account...