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Scoring off the Field

Author : Naima Simone

Publisher : Entangled: Brazen

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 49,63 MB

Release : 2018-03-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1640635432

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Tennyson Clark is getting a life. First step: quitting her job as assistant to Dominic Anderson, star quarterback for the Washington Warriors, her best friend...and the man she’s been secretly in love with for years. But since the gorgeous, if overprotective playboy has only ever seen her as his BFF, she’s finally ready to relinquish her tattered fantasy and move on. Enter steps two and three: new job and new man. Football is Dominic's life, and with his contract soon up for renewal, all his focus needs to be on the game. But Tennyson—dependable, logical Tennyson—is making that next to impossible with her mysterious new job and her sudden interest in online dating. He doesn’t do relationships. But the thought of another man touching her sexier-than-hell curves has him suddenly wanting more from his best friend. Indulging in hot, dirty, what’s-my-name sex with no strings and lots of benefits is simple, uncomplicated...until it’s not. Each book in the WAGS series is STANDALONE: * Scoring with the Wrong Twin * Scoring Off the Field * Scoring the Player's Baby



Scoring Off the Field

Author : Kausik Bandyopadhyay

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 25,72 MB

Release : 2020-11-29

Category : History

ISBN : 1000084051

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This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region/locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It explains how football became a viable popular social force with a rare emotional spontaneity and peculiar self-expressive fan culture against the background of anti-imperial nationalist movement and postcolonial political tension and social transformation. In the process, it investigates certain key questions and problems in the social history of football in Bengal, which have hitherto been ignored in the existing works on the subject. The author offers some original arguments in treating football as a cultural phenomenon, setting it squarely in the context of Bengali politics and society. It strengthens the premise that social history of South Asian sport can be meaningfully understood only by looking beyond the sports field. The study, using sport as a lens, has tried to consider some relevant themes of social history, and brings forth important issues of political and cultural history of 20th-century Bengal. Simultaneously, it highlights the transformed role of football as an instrument of reaction, resistance and subversion. It indicates that the football field of Bengal proves to be a mirror image of what society experiences in its cultural and political field, through a series of historical projections of identity, difference and culture.



Scoring Off the Field

Author : Naima Simone

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 23,41 MB

Release : 2018-02-20

Category :

ISBN : 9781985729803

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Tennyson Clark is getting a life. First step: quitting her job as assistant to Dominic Anderson, star quarterback for the Washington Warriors, her best friend ... and the man she's been secretly in love with for years. But since the gorgeous, if overprotective playboy has only ever seen her as his BFF, she's finally ready to relinquish her tattered fantasy and move on. Enter steps two and three: new job and new man. Football is Dominic's life, and with his contract soon up for renewal, all his focus needs to be on the game. But Tennyson-dependable, logical Tennyson- is making that next to impossible with her mysterious new job and her sudden interest in online dating. He doesn't do relationships. But the thought of another man touching her sexier-than-hell curves has him suddenly wanting more from his best friend. Indulging in hot, dirty, what's-my-name sex with no strings and lots of benefits is simple, uncomplicated...until it's not.



Scoring the Player's Baby

Author : Naima Simone

Publisher : Entangled: Brazen

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 22,66 MB

Release : 2018-07-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1640635653

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After a divorce from her cheating football player ex, PR whiz Kim Matlock would rather drive a pine tree through her walled-off heart than work at the Seattle Wedding Expo. And the last thing she expects is to be grabbed and kissed breathless by a hot giant of a man looking to fend off a stalker. She doesn't want emotional entanglements, but she can't say no to one scorching night with the sexy stranger. To her shock, she finds out afterward that a) he's a pro football player, aka her kryptonite, and b) she's pregnant. But nothing could have prepared her for his response... Each book in the WAGS series is STANDALONE: * Scoring with the Wrong Twin * Scoring Off the Field * Scoring the Player's Baby



Scoring with the Wrong Twin

Author : Naima Simone

Publisher : Entangled: Brazen

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 44,98 MB

Release : 2018-01-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1640634053

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Shy, awkward Sophia Cruz has a hard time telling her vivacious identical twin “no.” But when her sister begs her to swap places for a modeling shoot, she caves ... again. Then Zephirin Black walks onto the set. The brooding, aloof, and gorgeous tight end for the Washington Warriors. But she can keep it professional... She has to. Because the adorkable Cruz twin has no luck with guys once they compare her to her sister. After a bad break-up, Zeph hasn’t been big on second chances—and even less with trust. But he finds himself giving please-call-me-by-my-middle-name-Sophia both. The woman he’d dismissed as a spoiled cover model is different from the first time he met her. Quirkier. Funnier. Definitely sexier. What started as one night turns into another...and another...and another... Still, Sophia can’t go on keeping her secret from him. But telling Zeph the truth will mean losing him for good. Each book in the WAGS series is STANDALONE: * Scoring with the Wrong Twin * Scoring Off the Field * Scoring the Player's Baby



Shoot-Out

Author : Mike Lupica

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 29,36 MB

Release : 2018-05-08

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0451479343

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author if Heat and Travel Team! What happens when a star player ends up on the worst team? He either learns to lose or he stops playing the game he loves. These are the choices facing Jake, who has gone from champion to last place, testing his sportsmanship every time his soccer team gets waxed. But it's his teammate Kevin who shows Jake that being a good captain means scoring and assisting off the field as much as being the star player on it.



Omar!

Author : Omar Vizquel

Publisher : Gray Publishers

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 37,27 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN :

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Omar Vizquel doesn't just make the tough plays look easy. He makes the toughest plays look fun. Widely considered one of the best defensive shortstops in the history of baseball, he is often praised by teammates, opponents, and fans alike for working so hard at his game -- and for obviously enjoying it so much. His hard work has paid off. Omar has won an amazing nine consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Awards and holds the highest career fielding percentage of anyone at the position. He has been selected for two American League All Star teams, has played in two World Series, and has been a key member of six Central Division Championship Cleveland Indians teams. In this, his first book, Omar tells the story of his life in baseball, from the sandlots of Caracas, Venezuela, to Game Seven of the world Series and beyond. Along the way he offers a candid look inside the locker room of those powerhouse Indians teams, shares anecdotes about fellow major league ballplayers, and gives plenty of lively opinions on the game they all play.



Scoring Wilder

Author : R. S. Grey

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,97 MB

Release : 2014-06-26

Category : Man-woman relationships

ISBN : 9781499707977

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With Olympic tryouts on the horizon, the last thing nineteen-year-old Kinsley Bryant needs to add to her plate is Liam Wilder. He's a professional soccer player, America's favorite bad boy and has all the qualities of a skilled panty-dropper. Not to mention that Liam is strictly off limits; her coaches have made that perfectly clear. But that just makes him all the more enticing.



Scoring the Quarterback

Author : S. M. Soto

Publisher :

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 50,73 MB

Release : 2018-05

Category :

ISBN : 9781945910692

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Luke Caldwell has three abhorrent qualities to him: 1) He's a pig-headed jock. 2) He's a grade A asshole with the biggest, overbearing ego. 3) He's a manwhore. These three qualities alone should've had me running for the hills. I tried to steer clear of him, I really did, but it was an impossible feat. Luke Caldwell was nothing if not persistent, and the way he bulldozed through my life, not taking no for an answer is proof of it. I tried to stay away from him. I wanted to hate him. But I couldn't. Luke was nothing like the idiot jock I pegged him out to be. He became a friend, a confidant, and after one unforgettable night, he became so much more. Whatever this is between us, it's impossible to ignore. I just hope when all is said and done, I won't be burned by the college bad boy. Praise of the book: "This book is a page turner for all the college romance lovers out there, I read this book in one sitting and would highly suggest it. S.M Soto brings the perfect amount of angst with sweet." - USA Today Best Selling Author T.L Smith "The best sports romance I've read this past year!" - Holly S. Roberts author of the USA TODAY Best-Selling novel "Play" "OMG This book was absolutely amazing I loved it. Luke and Natalia are a perfect pair. Their witty banter back and forth and the angst. I could not put it down. Devoured this book in one night." - Once Upon A Romance Blog "It doesn't happen very often that I read a book cover to cover until three a.m., Scoring the Quarterback had me on my freaking knees! Kudos to you S.M. Soto!" - Zellie Geustyn (Beta Reader/Reviewer)



Scorecasting

Author : Tobias Moskowitz

Publisher : Crown

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 33,25 MB

Release : 2012-01-17

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0307591808

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In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.