Todd took in stride the high level of success of the Omaha Stampeders' quarterback, Parker Jackson. Parker was everything and more than what a dream quarterback could be. Todd's priorities were to keep him healthy and humble.
On one hand, there was the Tennessee All-American Peyton Manning, a coach on the field and well-known beast in the film room, whose stock fell slightly as a senior simply because his team didn't win the national title, and he didn't win ...
Christian Ott, www.chritianott.com, 25 May 2020. Dan Roan, Twitter, 20 April 2021. 34 Deloitte, op. cit. The reported value of transfers was £1.8 billion, but this will typically be paid over several seasons; £1.3 billion is the ...
Here is a description of "More Than A Game" in the words of the protagonist, Carter Mason: I know what I look like: a stereotype; a fatherless black kid pinning his hopes on a football scholarship.
More than a Game is a comprehensive overview of adolescent sports literature, its history, and contemporary trends in the field. Sports are a prominent part of American culture, and the...
Jim Brown coached youth sports for 40 years by creating a learning envirornment in which football was a vehicle for the totat development of his athletes.
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United...
Voices from Philadelphia's athletic community on what it's like being a Philadelphian and a fan, and on what makes a community work
A team of football historians and enthusiasts have pooled its resources and intellectual energies to write this oppositional and unauthorised history. Provides a detailed account of the development of Australian...
This is Jackson in his prime, transitioning from the Bulls to the Lakers, a master of the art of winning, who would go on to claim more NBA championships, eleven, than any other coach in NBA history.
Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this book considers the computer game as a new and emerging mode of contemporary storytelling.
But let me first tell you about the trip to Zindi. It takes a two-day boat ride down the Indian Ocean coast to reach the nearest fishing village. Hardly the ideal preparation for a football match. But so be it, the team got onto the ...
3 Gritty realism: reading Half-Life Half-Life [inc. Half-Life (1998), Half-Life: Opposing Force (1999), HalfLife: Blue Shift (2001)]. First-person shooter. The player controls the actions of an in-game protagonist from a first-person ...
This is Jackson in his prime, transitioning from the Bulls to the Lakers, a master of the art of winning, who would go on to claim more NBA championships, eleven, than any other coach in NBA history.
Doeden weaves in information about Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter, and other essential background young readers will need. This book is sure to engage everyone interested in sports, history, and civil rights.
More Than a Game: Why North Carolina Basketball Means So Much to So Many
The story of the crusade for gender equity in sport and for compliance with Title IX at a small, liberal arts college in northwest Oregon.
Throughout John Major's life, his love of cricket has been a constant source of enjoyment, anguish- and solace.
This book takes hockey players, parents, coaches and fans through the highs and lows of the game, season after season, league after league, and shares some of the important lessons that over twenty years of hockey has taught.
His debut novel More Than a Game was chosen the "Best Book of the Year" in 2014 in Russia, the birthplace of LitRPG!