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Maybe Next Year
Long-Suffering Sports Fans and the Teams That Never Deliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Sports fans are a devoted bunch, win or lose. Millions sit in the wind and the cold, watching their team slip ever further from the playoffs—only to come back for more next year. What is it that keeps them going? This book, published just before the Cubs ended the longest active drought in pro sports,...
Fine Tuning Your Man-to-Man Defense
Fine Tuning Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
There is something about teams who play intense, effective and hard nosed man-to-man defense that sets those teams a notch above other good teams. These great defensive teams exude a confidence that other teams often find intimidating.
What sets these great defensive teams apart from average...
Win Anyway
The official coach and player's guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Win Anyway is the official coach and player's guide to success. Once you learn how to Win Anyway you can not lose.
by Ron Mayberry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The first question anyone should have for me is, Why would anyone be interested in an autobiography about my life as a coach? That would be a fair question, since I havent won any national championships nor have I been in demand for speaking engagements. If you compare my coaching record to others,...
Designing Effective Practices for Team Sports
Teach To Win Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Success in team sports depends on many factors with preparation being at the top of the list of elements that can be controlled by the coach. In order to insure a team in any sport is prepared as well as possible, effective practice sessions are essential.
For many coaches designing effective...
by Mike Rutherford, Rick Pitino
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This guide is the ultimate resource for true fans of the Cardinals. Whether you cheered along for the 1980 and 1986 March Madness victories, or whether you're a more recent supporter in the Rick Pitino era, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Experienced sportswriter...
by Carlo Perotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Dopo il buon successo del primo volume dei Forgotten Sons, Carlo Perotti torna con le sue short stories a raccontarci le vite di giocatori ed allenatori che hanno caratterizzato gli ultimi decenni: scopriremo i dolori del giovane Bird, il dramma di Len Bias, la vita favolosa e drammatica di Pete Maravich,...
by Carlo Perotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2014
La storia del basket non si snoda solo seguendo le imprese dei suoi più grandi campioni come Michael Jordan o Larry Bird piuttosto che Dino Meneghin o Drazen Petrovic, storie comunque abbondantemente narrate, bensì anche tra le vicende e le giocate di giocatori meno talentuosi o forse solo meno...
Tales from the Dallas Mavericks Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Mavs Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
One of the most exciting teams in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks have taken the sports world by storm. Now readers and fans will finally get the chance to hear the stories and witness the action that defines the powerhouse team that captured the 2011 NBA title. In this newly updated edition of Tales...
Boston Celtics
Where Have You Gone? Robert Parish, Nate Archibald, Bill Sharman, and Other Celtic Greats
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
With unforgettable players and the winningest tradition in the NBA, the Celtics can lay claim to some of the most unique stories in the league. But what happens when the lights go dim, the crowds depart, and the players leave the court? In Boston Celtics Where Have You Gone? fans can catch up with their favorite players from past and present.
You're Welcome, Cleveland
How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron follows the first two years of LeBron James’s return to Cleveland, where everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness—especially when you fulfill your promise and bring home an NBA Championship,...
The Perfect Season
A Memoir of the 1964-1965 Evansville College Purple Aces
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In 1964, the Evansville College Purple Aces raced undefeated through the Indiana Collegiate Conference, posting a perfect 24–0 regular-season record and winning the College Division NCAA championship. The skeleton of this season exists in newspaper archives and in books that capture the on-court...
by Chong Xie
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
There is a question that arises in our consciousness: is it really genes or biomechanics that make us different from the widely sought after and famous athletes whose performances are not only awe inspiring but almost seem "out of this world" magical? Keeping this million-dollar question...
by Michael Tran
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
No True Sneakerhead would pass up on this exclusive content! Carefully developed over the course of several years, this guide is the first tell all book about the history of the Air Jordan sneaker. Everything you wanted to know about every Jordan is now at your fingertips. Available only through this...