Author : Brent Flanders
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1461712904
A Must-Have for Basketball Fans! In this book you will learn where Lurch from television''s Adams Family played college basketball, what a North Carolina Tar Heel is, and what record Frank Selvy set that may never be broken by a Division I player.
Author : Chris Ballard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803262355
Looking for a game? Here's your guided tour of the country's best pickup basketball courts, from the blacktops of Brooklyn to the asphalt of Anchorage to the gyms of Jackson, Mississippi. It's all inside: where the pros play, the most scenic runs in the land, and a ranking of the top five courts. ø Chris Ballard and three other former college players piled into a used Chevy van and traveled thirty-one thousand miles in seven months, playing at over a thousand courts in 166 cities in forty-eight states. This is the story of their roundball road trip and a guide to the places, people, and communities they encountered. ø More than a travel guide, Hoops Nation is "a celebration of the game of basketball as it is played in America." It includes guides to streetball fashion, the lingo of the courts, the etiquette of the pickup world, the tricks of old-guy basketball, and tips for the dunking impaired. Also included are profiles of playground legends and dispatches from the legions of basketball lifers who populate the country's courts. ø This book can tell you where they?re running today, all over America. Who?s got next?
Author : Walt Frazier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786549890
"Irreverent in approach, these guides include tips and advice from leading authoritimes, aiming to help with life's big decisions and challenges, as well as hobbies. This book should help readers how to watch and understand basketball. "
Author : Gregg Scott
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 146696328X
The Mental Athlete unleashes a MASTERPIECE! Gregg Scotts Global Hoops: Mind, Body & Soul Performance Guru and Ex-Intl. Pro Basketball Player presents True Tales, Tools & Teachings Behold a book created to be judged by its cover. Visually Captivating. Stimulating Content. Using his International pro basketball pedigree as a platform, Gregg Scott artfully designed Global Hoops: Mind, Body and Soul (published by Trafford Publishing) as an apt universal Readers Digest guidebook of Mindsets, Concepts, Quotes and Quips destined to impact the psyche and the journey of every reader. Sharing his true-life tales of perseverance, the keen mental tools and mentoring teachings he has utilized, cultivated and shared, globally, Scott presents a unique mixture of Mind and Body Conditioning told in a self-help format based on his 25-year brand, The Mental Athlete Workshop. A manual born as a trainer to Ironman Tri-athletes in Kona, HI, branded in San Diego as a UCSD fitness instructor, boosted by the Adidas Euro Camps, boasted of by FIBA, broadcasted as a live radio show, and bona fide by dozens of testimonials by those he has coached, mentored, trained and taught worldwide. The seeds planted sprouted success and praise from athletes, elated parents and sponsors. See It 2 Be It: GHMBS Tales, Tools and Teachings are linked via youtube.com/MentalAthlete The workshop manual presentation has evolved into an epic infusion into G HOOPS with its 60-page current-day culmination, 2016: The Modern-Day Mental Athlete Manifesto. A compass for athletes and parents to navigate todays AAU/Club & H.S. competitive sports landscape. Engraining introspective traits and insights that are life-changing and lifelong. Dedicated to his mother, daughter Gabriella, and HOF pro tennis player Gabriela Sabatini, Global Hoops is the fulfillment of Scotts promise to the crowd of spectators after his MVP performance in a 1987 All-Star game in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Impressed, young Sabatini summoned Scott, via his agent, for a personal autograph and a memorable private meeting. Scotts Global Hoops quest spanned Nine Seasons, traversing 13 Countries, and a Million Miles Playing International Pro Basketball. Featuring hundreds of awe-inspiring pictures, clips, tributes and tutelage from his storied career, Scott pays homage to the many coaches, mentors, teachers, trainers and teammates who molded him, and details the 'Occupational Hazards' and survival skills of a Pro 'Import' Player in the 'Amateur' FIBA basketball galaxy. G Hoops illuminates the historic places and celeb faces he saw on his globetrotting journey with engaging anecdotes of his times with legends and luminaries; from Wooden to Walton, Petrovic to Pippen, Iceman Gervin to Alexander Gomelsky, Magic to Mutombo, Kareem to Kerr, Detlef to Dirk, Barkley to Barry, Joe Jellybean to Kobe Bryant. Avia*ATR*Adidas*Nike! About the Author & GabDad of G13: WV Tri-Sport Scholar-Athlete ~ #CUBuffsTrack Gregg Scott crafted his classic textbook for Generation Next. Global Hoops is part Memoir, Scrapbook, Self-Help Workbook, Basketball IQ Blueprint & Mental Athlete Manifesto. Global Hoops ~ By Gregg Scott* Softcover | 8.25 x 11 in | 370 pages | *2 lbs. | ISBN 9781412011259 E-Book | 370 pages | ISBN 9781466963283 *Donating 15% of net royalties from sales via Trafford.com to the San Diego Hospice!
Author : Earl Cureton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476693838
Earl "The Twirl" Cureton was never a star player in the NBA, but then again, few people will ever be a celebrity athlete. Earl's story, instead, is about a life on the fringes of the league during its "Golden Era" of the '80s and '90s. A teammate of Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Michael Jordan, Charles Oakley, Muggsy Bogues, Hakeem Olajuwon, and others, Earl was a part of seven NBA teams in his twelve-season career. He won two championships during his career, first in 1983 with the Philadelphia 76ers, and then in 1994 with the Houston Rockets. And yet, as a professional basketball journeyman, every day was a struggle. Growing up in Detroit during race riots, Earl worked hard and became a standout player at the University of Detroit. A 6' 9" center in the pros, he battled with Karem Abdul-Jabbar in back-to-back NBA Finals. While many people know the stories of big names like Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird, few understand the life of a player on the outskirts of the league. This is Earl's own story, a unique perspective on the trials of a journeyman player: non-guaranteed contracts, tryouts and cuts, playing overseas, coming back from injury, and the looming "right of first refusal."
Author : Jennifer Lane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623421691
The three book box set of The CONduct Series by Jennifer Lane includes With Good Behavior, Bad Behavior, and On Best Behavior. With Good Behavior: The romantic leads in With Good Behavior are two law-abiding citizens who unwittingly got mixed up with a Mafia capo, Logan Barberi, which led them both to prison sentences. The story begins as Sophie and Grant are starting parole and attempting to rebuild their lives and their dignity. Sophie Taylor is a former psychologist who's an intelligent, spunky, strawberry-blond beauty. She has a tendency to open her heart to wounded people, including the "bad-boy" boyfriends littering her past. Grant Madsen is a former Navy lieutenant who's hard-working and kind, with dark Italian features and stunning crystal-blue eyes. He has a penchant for brooding and self-sacrifice. Their paths collide outside their parole officer's door, and both have no idea about the explosive hidden connection waiting for them like a ticking bomb down the road. Re-Release in 2017! We have re-edited With Good Behavior (Conduct #1), book one of a complete romantic suspense trilogy. Bad Behavior: Grant Madsen's got issues. He's still battling his Mafia family and doing everything possible to keep his loved ones safe. With the cruising season coming to an end, he has to find another job soon or he'll rejoin his father in prison. And he's trying to convince his rebellious teenage nephew to stay away from their criminal relatives (you can imagine how that's going). But worst of all, Grant's parole officer has mandated that he attend therapy. The only saving grace is that they're couples sessions with his girlfriend, Sophie Taylor, a fellow parolee who's struggling with a few issues of her own. Sophie desperately hopes her past with Grant's brother won't destroy her future with him. There's a sleazy professor at work who revels in sexually harassing women in the psychology department. And her father still hates Grant. Their psychologist has his work cut out for him. When Grant's ruthless father hints at a plot to get out of prison, Grant must use everything he's learned in therapy and beyond to try to stop him. It's a race against time -- and a race to rescue Sophie from the Mafia's clutches once again. But this time McSailor and Bonnie refuse to play victims. This time the cuffs are coming off. On Best Behavior: Planning a wedding is never easy--especially when the Russian Mafia wants you dead. On Best Behavior--the third and final book in The Conduct Series--finds our favorite couple moving forward, despite the odds. Following a pardon by the Governor of Illinois, ex-cons Sophie Taylor and Grant Madsen are finally free to pursue their love and the life that lies ahead for them. Grant now fights the forces that have hurt his loved ones by working undercover for the FBI, and he has infiltrated the Russian Mafia in Chicago. Sophie dives into swimming with Grant's nephew, Ben, and into her career as a psychology professor. Thankfully, now it's Ben's turn to heal through therapy sessions with Dr. Hunter Hayes. With so many things going right for Grant and Sophie, it's too bad the Russians aren't their only threat. When Grant's father, Enzo Barberi, discovers his own son thwarted his plan to break out of prison, his overdeveloped sense of vengeance flares to life. As Sophie scrambles to save her fiance, it's impossible to say who will kill Grant first--the Russians or his Italian family. Can love triumph over evil? Are hard work and a pledge to be on best behavior ever enough?
Author : Ken Mink
Publisher : Ken Mink
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The incredible story of a man who was unfairly kicked out of college in 1956 and fulfills a dream by returning to college basketball at age 73, setting several world records in the process.
Author : Joe Schwarcz
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780805074079
Presents lighthearted explanations of the chemistry behind sixty-seven everyday objects and processes, from foods and shampoos to flatulence and anesthetics.
Author : Marc Schuilenburg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2021-03-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000363848
According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. This book argues that hysteria is in fact alive and well. Hyperventilating, we rush from one incident into the next – there is hardly time for a breather. From the worldwide run on toilet paper to cope with coronavirus fears to the overheated discussions about immigration and overwrought reactions to the levels of crime and disorder around us, we live in a culture of hysteria. While hysteria is typically discussed in emotional terms – as an obstacle to be overcome – it nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Irritating though this may be, hysteria needs to be taken seriously, for what it tells us about our society and way of life. That is why Marc Schuilenburg examines what hysteria is and why it is fuelled by a culture that not only abuses, but also encourages and rewards it. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, criminology, philosophy and all those interested in hysteria and how it permeates late modern society.
Author : Patricia McLinn
Publisher : Craig Place Books
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944126155
Sexy Coaches, and a Matchmaking King Well before the search for a long-missing princess leads to the campus of Ashton University, a new coach arrives for the men's basketball coach . . . and causes all sorts of the problems for the team's academic advisor. These two books of USA Today bestselling author Patricia McLinn’s acclaimed The Wedding Series, bring heartwearming romance, international intrigue, and some royal matchmaking. Book 6, Hoops (RITA Finalist) The Coach and the Professor Carolyn Trent's logically mapped journey to becoming the perfect professor of English was hijacked the day she became academic adviser to the Ashton University men's basketball team, including young Brad Spencer, who is just a little too much like his coach. Because the hijacker was C.J. Draper, the team's infuriating, irreverent and sexy new coach. C.J. has never let adversity stop him - if he had he'd never have gotten this far. He's not about to start by letting Professor Trent derail him. If he chose to rattle her ivory tower it was just for the fun of seeing the fiery woman beneath the marble-cool exterior . . . wasn't it? When logic clashes with ambition in the game of love, will anyone win? Book 7, The Surprise Princess A Princess? No Way Katie is a perfectly ordinary young woman living a perfectly ordinary life in small-town Wisconsin … isn’t she? The most interesting thing about her is that she works for the men’s basketball office at Ashton. If she considers the biggest perk of the job being around Brad Soencer, now the assistant basketball coach, that also makes her ordinary, because what woman wouldn’t feel that way? So these people coming around saying she could be the long-ago kidnapped granddaughter of the King of Bariavak have to be wrong … don’t they? Brad has a real soft spot for Katie. She stirs his protectiveness, his penchant for the underdog, and, possibly, certain other reactions he’s not about to indulge. So he’s going to do his damnedest to make sure Katie gets all that she deserves, including the crown that might be her right … even though it means Her Royal Highness will never again look at a basketball coach from Wisconsin like he’s the king of her heart. C.J. and Carolina return in The Surprise Princess as mentors to Katie, and, okay, they might take part in a little matchmaking themselves. You’ll also celebrate the wedding of April and Hunter (The Christmas Princess). Reviews: [The Surprise Princess] “Love this series! It takes you from home to all over the world! … It’s great the way these books intertwine with characters from other books in this series but still give you a story that can be a stand-alone.” -- 5* review “I have enjoyed each and every one of the books in this series, but I loved the characters for this book the most. No two strong, independent and tender hearts ever deserved to love more than (Katie and Brad). … Beautiful, at times funny and just plain charming.” -- 5-star review "Fast-paced and funny but soulful and deep. The romance has your heart racing .... Just right. That's what I thought of Hoops " -- 5-star review [Hoops] "Refreshingly different ... Strong characterizations and perceptive insights leave a lasting impression." -- Romantic Times Praise for The Wedding Series: “A wonderful series that will make you laugh and cry. Each page is filled with love that will eventually come to the people who so need it. A must read!” – 5-star review "Perfect. The characters were multi-dimensional and played off each other in warm, thoughtful, loving ways. Each couple faced a different situation and overcame their obstacles together and with the insightful comments of their friends. ... Heart-warming." – 5-star review Get all the books in Patricia McLinn’s The Wedding Series today! 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