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Sports Games: What Everyone Should Know

by Travis Capps
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016

If you love sports then you'll love sports games. Grab this ebook today to learn everything you need to know.

ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment - eBook

by Jeff Coombes, BEd (Hons), BAppSc
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

ESSA’s Student Manual for Health, Exercise and Sport Assessment is an essential text for any student undertaking an exercise and sports science degree and professionals working in the exercise and fitness industries. This practical manual contains fundamental theory and detailed step-by-step...

Fightin' Words

Kentucky vs. Louisville

by Joe Cox, Ryan Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

Over 100 years ago, the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville met for the first time on the basketball court. Over thirty years ago, the intra-state rivals faced each other in the original Dream Game.” Fightin’ Words will have the inside stories of these games and others from...

Twenty Second Century Sports

by Felicity Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

In the Twenty Second Century (that's right, only twenty seconds) it is a whole new world of fast paced sports. Golf, basketball and baseball will move at an amazing speed. It's time for kids to learn about these sports. This is a basic instructional manual for boys and girls.

I Played for Scotus Volume 1

The Shamrock Athletic Legacy as Told by the People Who Built It

by Mark Kurtenbach, John Kopetzky
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016

For a person privileged to say I played for Scotus, specific images immediately come to mind: rugged practices, exacting coaches, expectations of excellence. Those words also mean representing not only yourself and your teammates but also thousands of people over the years whoas players, coaches,...

Darwin's Athletes

How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

by John Hoberman
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997

A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times). Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect...

Sport

Readings from a Sociological Perspective

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972

Sport is something rather taken for granted and little studied as part of man's and society's behaviour. This collection of essays, many of which appear in print for the first time, provides an international comparative and developmental orientation to the sociology of sport, thereby clarifying the...

Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press

Shaping the Image of the Game

by R. Terry Furst
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid–19th...

1969 Miracle Mets

The Improbable Story of the World's Greatest Underdog Team

by Steven Travers
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006

In the popular 1977 movie “Oh, God!” George Burns, playing the deity, is asked in a courtroom to prove His divinity by performing a miracle. Burns tells the attorney, "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea." Man has engaged in...

Behind the Plate

by Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, Til Ferdenzi
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

Life had not been kind to young Tommy Riggs—and even though he had all the natural playing ability to become a Major Leaguer, his anger at the world kept him from becoming the great player he could be. How Tommy Riggs learned not only to be a star catcher, but also to live with himself and...

Snowmobile Best Trick

by Jake Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Did you know that snowmobile best trick athletes propel themselves into the air to perform amazing turns, flips, and other stunts? They perform tricks like front flips and double backflips....

Art of Surfing

A Training Manual for the Developing and Competitive Surfer

by Raul Guisado
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011

Surfing has evolved from a relatively obscure pastime to one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Today, there are millions of surfers across the globe. The Art of Surfing was the first book of its kind to avail participants, both beginner and advanced, with the same training and coaching principles...

Adventures in Water Skiing: Part 1, Hot Dogging

by Tony Klarich
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011

Someone asked me why anyone would be interested in reading a book about me. After getting over some hurt feelings, and thinking hard about it for a couple of days, I came up with an answer that satisfied them---and me too! My “glory days” in water skiing corresponded with the explosion of watersports...

Outdoor Sports and Games

by SoftTech
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Who Else Wants To Enjoy A Long and Healthy Life and "Enjoy Life As Well"? Take A Vacation From The Rat Race & Starting Treating Yourself and Family To Healthy Living With Outdoor Sports and Games Stop killing yourself with work' bad habits and Indoor Living! This...