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Encyclopedia of British Football - Hardcover

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by Richard Cox (Editor), Dave Russell (Editor), Wray Vamplew (Editor)This reference work aims to provide sports enthusiasts, journalists, librarians, students and scholars with an authorative source of information on a comprehensive range of subjects covering the history and organization of football in Britain. Over 250 entries focus on key organisations or individuals, famous clubs, major competitions, events, venues and incidents, institutions and organisations as well as key issues such as...

Scheisse! We're Going Up!: The Unexpected Rise of Berlin's Rebel Football Club - Paperback

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by Kit Holden (Author)A CLUB ON THE RISE. A CITY IN FLUX. THIS IS UNION BERLIN.No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East Berlin have stuck it to the Stasi, built their own stadium and even given blood to save their club. But now they face a new and terrifying prospect: success.Scheisse! tells the human stories behind the unexpected rise of this unique football club. But it's about more than just football. It's about the city Union call home. As th...

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by Rudy Ruettiger (Author), Mark Dagostino (With)Rudy became the inspiration for millions when a Hollywood film depicting his journey as a Notre Dame football player became one of the most influential sports movies ever made. In Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger's only autobiography, go behind the scenes to experience the heartache, triumph, and glory through Rudy's own eyes, and learn details of the ten years it took to get the movie made.For the first time, the real Rudy shares his story of flounderi...

100 Ways to Improve Your Horse's Schooling - Paperback

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by Susan McBane (Author)This book offers a comprehensive gallery of ideas for improving the training of any horse.The chapters deal with a range of topics progressing from improving stable manners and ridden skills, to checking your own riding habits and honing your mental approach to schooling.It is published in an accessible format with easy-to-access information and cross-referenced advice.It is fully illustrated in colour throughout, with practical photography accompanying the detailed ad...

Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games - Paperback

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by Lopez Lomong (Author), Mark Tabb (With)Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track-and-field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible; it is about faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help save thousands more.In this heart-wrenching story, you'll learn about Lopez Lomong's harrowing kidnapping at the age of six, becoming one of the Lost Boys of Sudan; his survi...

An Ethnography of English Football Fans: Cans, Cops and Carnivals - Paperback

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by Geoff Pearson (Author)Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observationFront JacketThis is an ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based upon sixteen years' participant observation. The author identifies a distinct sub-culture of supporter - the 'carnival fan' - who dominated the travelling support of the three teams observed - Manchester United...

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by Jim Maine (Author)Created especially for the Australian customer! Facts, tips and stats for players, spectators and coaches! Fully updated with all the latest rule changes and including expanded skills, coaching and training chapters, Aussie Rules For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes you from getting a grip on the basics to more advanced aspects of playing, watching and coaching Australia's national game. Packed with practical information and fascinating anecdotes, this is the simplest, cleares...

Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps, and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind - Paperback

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by Nick Littlehales (Author)Proven solutions for a better night's sleep, from the "sleep guru" to elite athletes--rest for success in work, sports, and life One-third of our lives -- that's 3,000 hours a year--is spent trying to sleep. The time we spend in bed shapes our moods, motivation, alertness, decision-making skills, reaction time, creativity . . . in short, our ability to perform, whether at work, at home, or at play. But most of us have disturbed, restless nights, relying on over-st...

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by Roman Espejo (Editor)Pulling from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications, this collection of essays tackles the topic of performance-enhancing drugs. Readers take a look at whether or not the use of performance-enhancing drugs should be accepted, how dangerous these drugs can be, and the effectiveness of drug testing. This volume also discusses the future of performance-enhancing drugs. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date...

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by Noah Berlatsky (Editor)This edition explores issues related to the Olympics. It covers benefits and harms from hosting the Olympics. It examines the issues of drugs and doping in the Olympics. Readers will learn about often unseen sides to the massive event, including the environmental, political, and sex trafficking issues as they relate to the Olympics. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: February 11, 2016

Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance - Hardcover

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by Matt Fitzgerald (Author)An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversity Step after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past pain, lost toenails, 5.30 am start times, The Wall? Sports writer Matt Fitzgerald set out to run eight marathons in eight weeks across the country to answer that question. At each race, ...

Triathlon for the Every Woman: You Can Be a Triathlete. Yes. You. - Paperback

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by Meredith Atwood (Author)You Are a Badass for aspiring triathletes: a practical and inspiring guide to getting off the couch and on the trail to race your first -- or 50th -- triathlon When Meredith Atwood first shared her journey from tired, overworked wife and mom to successful triathlete, her story resonated with women everywhere, online at her SwimBikeMom blog and in the first edition of Triathlon for the Every Woman. Now with her own IRONMAN finishes, experience, and triathlon coaching...

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by Mark Rucker (Author)The Brooklyn Dodgers: The story of a baseball franchise that became family with its city.If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball franchise were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this relationship chronicles childhoods spent at Ebbets Field to the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage helped change the face of America. Baseball in Brooklyn goes back to the beginning of the sport, when a young city embraced...

Hot Point Fitness: The Revolutionary New Program for Fast and Total Body Transformation - Paperback

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by Steve Zim (Author), Mark Laska (Author)By studying the body in motion through advanced MRI technology, trainer-to-the-stars Steve Zim has determined that most of us use only 20 to 40 percent of our muscle capability when we work out. Hot Point Fitness introduces readers to over one hundred of Zim's unique super-exercises, demonstrating routines that will exact 100 percent output for leaner and denser muscle in a fraction of the time standard weight training and aerobic exercise take to get...

Should College Athletes Be Paid? - Paperback

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by Geoff Griffin (Editor)This informative edition contains thirteen essays that provide varying perspectives on whether or not college athletes should be paid, discussing post-eligibility school benefits, endorsement deals, illegal payments and gambling, athletic scholarships, and other topics. The book includes contact information for organizations and a bibliography. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.44 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: December 15, 2007

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by Karen Miller (Editor)While females were allowed to compete for the first time in the Olympics in 1900, today, girls make up less than fifty percent of high school athletes. If we're truly equal, why not fifty percent? That eight percent may seem like a small margin, but it represents thousands of girls who aren't benefitting from athletics, for whatever reasons. This collection of essays looks at some important controversies relating to girls in sports. Essays examine both sides of issues,...

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by Roy Taylor (Author)When George S. Halas was asked to rebuild the Staley Company's football club in Decatur, Illinois in 1920, nobody could have imagined that his efforts would forever change Sunday afternoons in America. Halas helped found the National Football League, and Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9.28 x 6.5 IN Publication Date: October 15, 2004

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by Frank M. Henkel (Author)There was little fanfare when Art Mickey McBride flew into Chicago in 1945 to purchase a professional football team for Cleveland. But that act set in motion a tradition that has brought the city of Cleveland together on Sunday afternoons for (most of) the sixty years to follow. Cleveland Browns History is the story of championship seasons, legendary coaches, and Hall of Fame players. Coach Paul Brown led his teams to seven league title games in their first 17 seaso...

The Pregnant Athlete: How to Stay in Your Best Shape Ever -- Before, During, and After Pregnancy - Paperback

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by Brandi Dion (Author), Steven Dion (Author), McIntosh Perry (Author)The Go-To Guide to Keep You Active and Healthy During Your Pregnancy and Beyond Whether you're a professional athlete or a dedicated weekend warrior, you're serious about your sport and your commitment to fitness. But now that you're pregnant, you may be getting conflicting health and exercise advice from your family, friends, and doctors. With all the concerns and misinformation, it's hard to know where to turn for accura...

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by Dennis Courneya (Author) Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 20, 2000

The Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion's 8 Core Principles for Success in Business, Sports, and Life - Paperback

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by Travis Macy (Author), John Hanc (Author)Travis Macy summited glacial peaks in the French Alps, rappelled into vast limestone caves in China, and ran through parched deserts in Utah. Most famously, he won one of the country's marquee ultra-distance events: Leadman, a high-altitude series of super-long-distance races, culminating with a 100-mile mountain biking race and a 100-mile trail run. Macy accomplished it without exceptional strength, speed, or flexibility, and without high-tech perfo...

Balls!: Confessions of a Rural Golf Course Owner - Hardcover

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by Gail W. Braman (Author) Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.76 x 8.84 x 5.84 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 20, 2000

Life as Sport: What Top Athletes Can Teach You about How to Win in Life - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Fader (Author)Why do sports captivate people? They allow us to watch human beings achieve peak performance, but, beyond physical strength and skill, what's really impressive is an athlete's mental prowess -- their will to succeed, engagement with their environment, and self-confidence. In Life as Sport, sport psychologist Dr. Jonathan Fader shares the skills that he teaches professional athletes--to enhance motivation, set productive goals, sharpen routines, manage stress, and cl...

Baseball America: The Heroes of the Game and the Times of Their Glory - Paperback

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by Donald Honig (Author)From Simon & Schuster comes Donald Honig's Baseball America where he shares the stories of the heroes of the beloved game of baseball and the times of their glory. The New York Times sports columnist, Ira Berkow, describes Baseball America as "part history, part biography, part drama, and a complete pleasure."Author BiographyDonald Honig is a novelist, historian, and editor known most for his baseball writing. He has written over forty books on baseball including B...

The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches - Paperback

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by Bill James (Author), Rob Neyer (Author)Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them -- these days it's the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information. That's what preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer realized over lunch more than a dozen years ago. Since then, they've been compiling the centerpiece of this book, the "Pitcher Census," which lists specific information fo...

Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship - Paperback

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by Dave Kindred (Author)Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were must-see TV long before that phrase became ubiquitous. Individually interesting, together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different -- young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate and Cosell an editor of his university's law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable: Both were, above all, performers who covered up their deep personal insecurities by demanding -- loudly a...

Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR Or, How a Bunch of Good Ol' Boys Built a Billion Dollar Industry Out of Wrecking Cars - Paperback

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by Joe Menzer (Author)In The Wildest Ride, Joe Menzer gives us a timely, comprehensive look at the dramatic, rollicking history of stock-car racing in America, exploring both its inauspicious bootlegging beginnings and the billion-dollar industry that it has become. Menzer straps the reader into the driver's seat for a run through NASCAR's history, revealing the sport's remarkable rise from rogue outfit to corporate darling. Menzer also profiles the many superstar drivers who have dominated ...

101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent: Making Athletics a Positive Experience for Your Child - Paperback

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by Joel Fish (Author), Susan Magee (With)The determining factor in whether a child between the ages of six and seventeen enjoys athletics is his or her parents -- not the sport, coach, or team. Yet, parents are often unaware of how their behavior and expectations impact their child's experience. In 101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent, Dr. Joel Fish, a sport psychologist who is also the dad of three young athletes, shares both his clinical expertise and practical experience to help parents...

St. Andrews Sojourn: St. Andrews Sojourn - Paperback

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by George Peper (Author)The Old Course at St. Andrews is the great hallowed ground of golf, and it was there that George Peper was playing in 1983 when he hit a slice so hideous that he never found the ball. But in looking for it, he came across a for sale sign on a stone town house alongside the famed 18th hole. Two months later he and his wife, Libby, became the proud owners of 9A Gibson Place.The Old Course at St. Andrews is the great hallowed ground of golf, and it was there that George P...

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by Bud Shrake (Author)There are tough times ahead for sixteen-year-old Billy. After his mother dies, he goes to Fort Worth with his father, whose drinking and gambling leave them all but penniless. Desperate to make a life for himself, Billy heads over to Colonial Country Club, where he hopes to get work as a caddie. He finds much more than he bargained for. Before long, Billy makes a place for himself behind the privileged walls of Colonial. His attitude draws the approval of an eccentric mi...

Blasted Heaths and Blessed Green: A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland - Paperback

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by James W. Finegan (Author), James W. Finegan (Other)Every golfer alive knows that he or she has two ancestral homes: one's own, and Scotland. On her rolling shores the game of golf had its origins, and to walk the links of St. Andrews is to feel at one with the shepherd who decided one day to see how far he could whack a stone with his crook. Most serious golfers will make the pilgrimage to Scotland, to try to hit the Postage Stamp green at Troon, to trace the footsteps of Ben Hogan at Carn...

At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman - Paperback

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by John Gierach (Author)Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers. Proving that fishing is not just a part-time pursuit, At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman takes us through a year with America's favorite fishing scribe, John Gierach, who dedicates himself to his passion despite his belief that "In the long run, fishing usually amounts to a lifetime of pratfalls punctuated by rare moments of pe...