Sports

  • Sports: The All-American Addiction
    By John R. Gerdy

    Jay Coakley, a sports sociologist, described this inability to understand team concepts in his book Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies as follows: Parents and coaches often forget ... that most children under the age of 12 do ...

  • Sports
    By Joy Cowley, Karen Danforth Diaz, Melissa J. Martin

    Sports

  • Sports: Photographic Impressions
    By Hanns Reich, Robert E. Lembke, Sven Simon

    Sports: Photographic Impressions

  • Sports
    By Tony Tallarico

    ... GIANT SLALOM , WHERE RIDERS ARE TIMED AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN A STEEP SLALOM COURSE SHAWN PALMER TERJE HAAKONSEN AND ROSS POWERS ARE SOME OF SNOWBOARDING'S SUPERSTARS AND LEGENDS , au 퉈 IN 1990 , VAIL SKI RESORT IN COLORADO WAS ...

  • Sports
    By Mary O'Keeffe

    Sports

  • Sports: The Ultimate Teen Guide
    By Gail Fay

    Girls: Though the main characters are mainly guys, don't be put off. I found the book hard to put down. Dutton Books, 2011 425 pages Who's Your Favorite Professional Athlete and Why? “Bethany Hamilton [surfer].

  • Sports: A Reference Guide and Critical Commentary, 1980-1999
    By Donald L. Deardorff

    A Reference Guide and Critical Commentary, 1980-1999 Donald L. Deardorff, Robert J. Higgs. The Prince of Tides . Boston : Houghton - Mifflin , 1986 . Cooney , Ellen . All the Way Home . New York : Putnam , 1984 . Coover , Robert .

  • Sports: The Complete Visual Reference
    By Francois Fortin

    ice sports s bobsledding E ven though sliding on snow or ice with toboggans , sleds , or skis has long been popular in northern countries , bobsledding itself is a relatively modern sport . It originated at the end of the 19th century ...

  • Sports: 300 Wacky Facts about Awesome Athletics
    By National Geographic Kids

    Everything has its weird side-- even sports! Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of spots trivia with this new addition to the very popular Weird but True series!

  • Sports
    By Tim Hammond

    Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

  • Sports: A Reference Guide
    By Robert J. Higgs

    "[A] useful, lucid, intelligent contribution to sports scholarship." Journal of Sport History

  • Sports
    By Campbell Books

    Discover the amazing sporting heroes who broke records and made history in My First Heroes: Sports!Push, pull and slide the scenes to find out about Ellie Simmonds, Michael Jordan, Mo Farah and Serena Williams, and be inspired by their ...

  • Sports: A Social Perspective
    By Robert M. Jiobu, Timothy Jon Curry

    Sports: A Social Perspective

  • Sports: The First Five Millennia
    By Allen Guttmann

    From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, every sport has been shaped by - and in turn has helped shape - the culture of which...

  • Sports: An Illustrated History
    By David G. McComb

    This evolved into a Dutch nine-pin game called “skittles.” An English and French version required the bowler to roll a ball into a target zone. Curling, developed in Scotland on frozen lakes, was bowling on ice with “curling stones” ...

  • Sports
    By Nicolas Brasch

    At school, at work and at home, all over Australia, people talk about how their favourite team won or lost. With Behind the News Topics' Sports, get the lowdown on some of the amazing facts and stories behind Australian sports.

  • Sports

    For example, the coach of a peewee hockey team in St. Paul, Minnesota, has different duties and concerns than the coach of the San Antonio Spurs, a professional basketball team, and both of these coaches have different focuses than a ...

  • Sports: Why People Love Them!
    By Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan

    “Cheerleading in the USA: A Sport and an Industry.” USA Today. April 26–28: 1A. ———. 2002. “Title IX Hits Middle America. ... Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Chappell, Linda Rae. 1997. Coaching Cheerleading Successfully.

  • Sports
    By Kelly Spence

    10 Figure Skating .......................................... 12 Speed Skating ............................................ 14 Curling . ... LET'S PLAY! Although the first official day of winter isn't.

  • Sports: The All-American Addiction
    By John R. Gerdy

    This book argues that our society's huge investment in organized sports is unjustified. Ardent boosters say that sports embody the “American Way,” developing winners by teaching lessons in sportsmanship, teamwork, and discipline.