Sports category: 37872 books
1941 -- The Greatest Year In Sports
Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
**Joe DiMaggio . . . Ted Williams . . . Joe Louis . . . Billy Conn . . . Whirlaway
Against the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world, these athletes transformed 1941 into one of the most thrilling years in sports history.**
In the summer of 1941, America paid attention...
The Best Dallas - Fort Worth Sports Arguments
The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard Fans
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time.
The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit in Boston, Chicago and New York.
The best debates for rabid fans
The Best Sports...
by Edward Zawadzki
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
What Canadian was the first black man to win a world championship in boxing?
Who scored the first regular-season goal in NHL history?
Who is the only Canadian in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
On water, ice, grass, or mud, in the air or on the ground, sports have been a part of Canadian...
The Best of Bacon
Select Cuts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
From the Preface:
“I wrote these stories between 1992 and 2018. They cover a dozen different sports for a dozen different media outlets, from the Ann Arbor News to National Public Radio, and they stretch from a couple pages to a dozen. But they have one thing in common: they all meant a lot to me...
From Mascot To Agent And Everything In Between
Career guidance from 11 sports executives I met during my journey into sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Starting out as a high school student who aspired to be a sports agent, Justin Hunt went on to work as a salary cap administrator in an NFL team's front office and serve as a sports agent and attorney for professional athletes and coaches. Justin learned firsthand that sports is a relationships game,...
by Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner Ph.D., Nicholas D. Hartlep Ph.D., Lori Latrice Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Top-tier college sports are extremely profitable. Despite the billions of dollars involved in the amateur sports industrial complex, none winds up in the hands of the athletes. The controversies surrounding whether colleges and universities should pay athletes to compete on these educational institutions'...
Complexity and Control in Team Sports
Dialectics in contesting human systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to ‘soccer-like’ team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional organizational...
Gaming the World
How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Professional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon...
Sports Her Way
Motivating Girls to start and Stay with Sports
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Susan Wilson, a longtime coach and former college gymnastics champion, has written the practical guide for parents who want to encourage their daughters to start -- and stay with -- sports as a pathway to a lifetime of health and self-esteem.
Sports Her Way coaches parents in each phase of getting...
Head in the Game
The Mental Engineering of the World's Greatest Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
An intriguing blend of science and sports that explores how some of the worlds greatest athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technology—the mental mapping and engineering of their own brains—for peak performance, and what it means for the future of athleticism, sports,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
From the Olympic Games to community-level competitions, sports events can be complex and pose a particular set of managerial challenges. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management surveys the management of sports events around the world of every size and scale, from small to mega-events, including...
Sports Journalism
A Multimedia Primer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Sports Journalism is a comprehensive guide to the purpose, principles and practice of this unique profession. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, including important new material on social media and the rise of on-line journalism, this is still the only book to explore the fundamentals...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
This Reader provides comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature in sports tourism. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by a substantial introduction from the editor, it presents the key themes, state of the art research and new conceptual thinking in sports tourism studies. Topics covered...
by Leif H. Smith, Todd M. Kays
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Acquiring the winning edge in sports-the mental edge
Mental conditioning is now seen by many to be as critical to sports success as physical conditioning. And for parents eager to ensure their children have a winning edge-as well as a future college scholarship-nothing could be more critical...