Author : Pete Newell
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780736068093
Learn the finer points of post play with Pete Newell's Playing Big. Featuring key techniques, teaching points, and drills for playing in and around the paint, this book and DVD gives insight into the skills of basketball's top players while giving you the best skill instruction for all levels to develop the modern multidimensional player.
Author : Patricia Harris
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1635684749
Who would have imagined meeting a stranger would lead to the writing of this book. Walking the scenic hills in Palos Verdes Estates, California, as a form of daily exercise, Kermit met and began sharing numerous stories about his life. As this daily routine developed into a mutual friendship the idea of writing a book was introduced. Although not the first time this idea was introduced, the timing was right and the idea took root and the adventure began. Noted for his gift of story-telling the task at hand was to capture details that would engage the reader after reading the first lines in the text to continue reading until the last page of the manuscript. We hope these words inspire, motivate, invoke emotions, encourage laughter, share challenges in overcoming obstacles, and explain details of incidents left in doubt.
Author : Pohla Smith
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823935772
Examines the life and basketball career of the Los Angeles Lakers "big man" who led his team to two consecutive NBA championships in 2000 and 2001.
Author : Justin Spizman
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0789260948
Every great sports coach is a life coach. This book identifies 168 outstanding coaches who have much to teach us about optimizing our performance, our character, and our lives. Coaches build winning teams and enable each athlete they mentor, guide, cajole, and nurture to achieve top performance. More than this, every great sports coach is first and last a life coach. Sportswriter Justin Spizman identifies and profiles 168 of the greatest coaches and managers of all time. They have much to teach us about optimizing our performance, our character, and our lives. Coach: The Greatest Teachers in Sports and Their Lessons for Us All profiles coaches in every significant sport, from football, basketball, baseball, and hockey to gymnastics, skating, rowing, rugby, soccer, and more. From field to court, diamond, rink, and pitch, the big leagues to the Olympics, college, and high school, Coach delivers the most teachable moments and methods—for play, for competition, and for life. Rich in quotations, each profile ends with lessons for top performance on and off the field, in and beyond the arena. Justin Spizman tracks all the relevant stats—for every sport keeps score—but he seeks first and last to disclose the mind, the heart, and the force of character that drive each of the indispensable men and women behind the world’s most envied and admired athletes. His profiles range from the likes of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa (already an MLB legend), to Aimee Boorman and Cecile Canqueteau-Landi (who both coached gymnastics phenom Simone Biles), Bill Belichick (the take-no-prisoners field general of the New England Patriots), Pat Summitt (who racked up 1,098 wins as coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012), Marián Vajda (the coach behind tennis titan Novak Djokovic), and David Leadbetter (golf guru to champions Kathy Baker, Nick Faldo, and Michelle Wie).
Author : Steve Buckner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1613217331
The night of April 4, 1988 will forever live in the hearts of fans of Jayhawks basketball. On that night, the Jayhawks and their fans raucously celebrated the team’s first national title since 1952. This game for the ages is one of 22 contests joyously recalled in this reissue of Steve Buckner’s Game of My Life Kansas Jayhawks. For fans of the Kansas Jayhawks, Game of My Life is a fabulous stroll down memory lane in which several Jayhawks basketball legends detail the events that culminated in the game of their lives. Players from the 1988 NCAA Championship squad share their insights into the collective game of their lives, as well as the defeat of rival Oklahoma in the national championship game. Former players featured include Mark Turgeon, Drew Gooden, Steve Woodberry, Paul Pierce, Nick Collison, Rex Walters, Mario Chalmers, and Kirk Hinrich, along with former coach Larry Brown and many more legends. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Donald E. Wolf
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780806128535
Explores the businesses and personalities responsible for the construction of the Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams
Author : Bobby Knight
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312282575
The controversial coach discusses his many achievements, from being named coach of the year four times to taking the Hoosiers to the Final Four five times, and reveals his trials and tribulations as Indiana University's basketball coach.
Author : Hal Lebovitz
Publisher : Gray & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1598510231
The best sports writing of Hal Lebovitz, the dean of Cleveland sportswriters for six decades. Many of his columns were anthologized in "Best American Sportswriting" and other collections, and he won countless national and regional sportswriting awards--among them induction into the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Author : George A. Selleck
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1461626137
Author George A. Selleck provides the means for a love of basketball to be transformed into a learning experience for life. Court Sense shows parents, coaches, and players how to apply skills and intelligence on the basketball court to life situations, to prepare the athlete for life long after the last jump shot has been made.
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Popular culture
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