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Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of the most revered events in American sports. Readers will also find dramatic stories from the officials and referees to...
Editeur :
Back Bay Books
Parution :
2008-11-15
ePub
Offre spéciale
-11%
8,99€
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Jack O'Brien, the impossibly demanding basketball coach at Charlestown High School in Boston, has led his team to five state championship titles in six years. Less talked about is O'Brien's other winning record: Nearly every one of the players who stuck with his program...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-11-11
ePub
Offre spéciale
-14%
10,99€
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Benny Friedman, the son of working class immigrants in Cleveland's Jewish ghetto, arrived at the University of Michigan and transformed the game of football forever. At the time, in the 1920s, football was a dull, grinding running game, and the forward pass was a...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-11-04
ePub
Offre spéciale
-13%
15,99€
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I'm on top of the world!” shouted Kevin Garnett after the Boston Celtics demolished the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers for a league-leading seventeenth NBA championship. Peter May chronicles the amazing run of the team, who went from having the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-10-28
ePub
Offre spéciale
-14%
6,99€
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JIMMY GREAVES was a great entertainer and a national hero as a footballer, and is held in equal affection as a television pundit and performer. Now Greavsie reveals the footballers and managers who have given him most entertainment and are his biggest heroes. Greavsie...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2008-10-07
ePub
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The Sports Fact: the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the pub conversation. We cant quote Shakespeare or remember our loved ones birthdays - superfluous! - but we can list, in alphabetical order, the last three strikers for our teams to have a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2008-10-02
ePub
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John McEnroe enjoyed tremendous success at all levels of tennis, and he owns 77 career singles titles, including 7 Grand Slams. He joined the circuit in 1978 and it took him only three years to attain the No. 1 ranking. The 1980 Wimbledon final, between McEnroe and...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina pummeled the lower end of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, a peninsula housing one of the nation's most isolated, vulnerable, and vital counties. A year later several ravaged communities came together to form South Plaquemines High. Kids...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-08-26
ePub
Offre spéciale
-13%
15,99€
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Beyond golf's polished surface there lies a world not often seen by the average fan. The caddy sees everything - the ambition, the strategy, the rivalries, the jealousies - that occurs behind the scenes. Award-winning John Feinstein, America's favourite sportswriter,...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2008-08-21
ePub
Offre spéciale
-14%
6,99€
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Discover the secrets for super endurance -- from one of the fittest men on the planet! Dean Karnazes has run 350 continuous miles through three sleepless nights, ordered pizza during long runs, and inspired fans the world over with his adventures. So what does a guy...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-08-18
ePub
Offre spéciale
-11%
8,99€
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Sport is undergoing a global technological revolution. Year on year, records are smashed, equipment gets more sophisticated, facilities improve almost beyond recognition. These changes are impacting on all areas of sport, from shoes to cycles and stadia. Is this making...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-08-06
Collection :
Science Museum TechKnow Series
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When you’re finished explaining the offside rule, shouting at the ref and perfecting your ball skills, treat yourself to a hearty half-time chuckle with this premiere collection of footy wise-cracks. No matter if your team win, lose or draw, Football Wit will keep you...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-07-07
ePub
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This is a key text for all those on sport science courses. It covers all the essential areas for a study of personal training including fitness testing, nutrition, psychology, training principles, health and fitness, training in different contexts and business issues....
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2008-05-27
PDF, ePub
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As a Premiership, World Cup and Grand Slam winner, no one better embodies the charisma and the colour of English rugbys greatest era than Lawrence Dallaglio. He has some story to tell, not just of the formidable exploits on the field, but an extraordinary life off it....
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2008-05-15
ePub
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For this detailed guide to some of the best walking in Britain, David Bathurst has walked over 700 miles of coast, taking in breathtaking natural landscapes and significant landmarks on the way. With rugged cliffs and ancient cathedral cities, historic ports and...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-05-06
ePub
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Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2008-05-01
ePub
Offre spéciale
-11%
8,99€
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High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-02-05
ePub
Offre spéciale
-11%
8,99€
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In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era -- Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan -- against top amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi. The year: 1956. Decades have passed since Eddie Lowery came to fame as the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2007-11-06
ePub
Offre spéciale
-15%
9,99€
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"In only 138 pages Schirato manages a broad sweep across sports history and culture... he brings the eye of a critical fan to his analysis of sport, treating it seriously as a social practice and as a social institution... A useful, provocative and non-dogmatic text...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-09-27
PDF, ePub
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From the trivial to the arcane to the bizarre to the hilarious to the tragic, Alliss' 19th Hole is a compulsively readable compendium of golf facts, told in the wry voice of the man Golf Digest called the "best golf commentator ever," the legendary Peter Alliss. Marvel...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2007-09-10
ePub
Offre spéciale
-13%
7,99€
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