Spunky, quick-witted twenty-one year old Callie Thompson is a University of Oklahoma journalism student by day and NBA Oklahoma City Thunder dancer by night. Callie hopes her connections with the franchise might get her foot in the door for a sports broadcasting job when she graduates. She just has one rule: never date the players. Kyle Kelly is the deadly handsome and charmingly Southern Thunder man of the hour. All the twenty-six year old is looking for is an NBA championship to call his own. An unexpected meeting with an opinionated, feisty Callie, however, who is very unimpressed with his celebrity status, sets his sights toward winning two things: her heart AND the championship.
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This fascinating book forms a key part of an emerging body of research that links the increase in time devoted to childcare to parents' worries about their children's economic futures.
Hardball takes leaders deep inside the world of hardball competition - a world where the players are zealously committed to winning and relentlessly driven to strengthen their competitive positions, creating a virtuous cycle that puts them ...
This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.
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on taking a couple of deep breaths—just like your mom told you to do before you got angry and “lost your head.” It is more difficult to escalate into panic or upset when we are consciously trying to relax and we are breathing slowly and ...
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Roulette is a percentage game, and winning occasionally is simple.
... she can make 1 percent of the lifetime wealth of Cindy Crawford. Two posts per week for two years would generate upward of $200 million in revenues. Given that the cost of doing so is minimal, she would—after taxes—accumulate wealth ...