Author : Gene Brown
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Sports
ISBN :
Traces the history of various indoor and outdoor sports as presented in articles appearing in the "New York Times."
Author : Ben Detrick
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1647003008
A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.
Author : Gene Brown
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Sports
ISBN :
Traces the history of various indoor and outdoor sports as presented in articles appearing in the "New York Times."
Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1328637247
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.
Author : Chris Bosh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984881795
A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sports Chris Bosh, NBA Hall of Famer, eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the league’s Global Ambassador, had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. His extraordinary career ended “in a doctor’s office in the middle of the afternoon.” Forced to reckon with moving forward, he found himself looking back over the course he'd taken, to the pinnacle of the NBA and beyond. Reflecting on all he had learned from a long list of basketball legends, from LeBron and Kobe to Pat Riley and Coach K, he saw that his important lessons weren’t about basketball so much as the inner game of success—right attitude, right commitment, right flow within a team. Now he shares that journey, giving us a view from the inside of what greatness feels like and what it takes. Letters to a Young Athlete offers a proven path for taming your inner voice and making it your ally, through the challenges of failure and success alike.
Author : BASEBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801483424
In the tradition of The Tao of Physics, Perkowitz (physics, Emory U.) mingles scientific theories with psychic mysteries, creating an elegant and evocative technical interpretation of light's story. Inspired by Magritte's painting Empire of Light and its paradoxical portrayal of day and night, Perkowitz picks up the artist's theme in discussions of ancient discoveries, modern theories (in cosmic and subatomic form), and the human eye's ability to receive data to link it with physiological responses. All this rather dry analysis is illuminated with examples from the artistry of Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Edgar Degas, and James Turrell. Our only regret is that the beautiful description of how light moves across real water and the water of van Gogh's perspective could not be accompanied by a reproduction of the painting. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Espn
Publisher : Espn Books
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345513924
A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.
Author : Gene Brown
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Sports
ISBN :
Traces the history of various indoor and outdoor sports as presented in articles appearing in the "New York Times."
Author : David Blevins
Publisher :
Page : 1291 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9780810861305
Provides a comprehensive listing, including biographical information and statistics, of each athlete inducted into one of the major sports halls of fame.
