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In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up...
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up...
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A revelatory account based on the authors' unprecedented access to the NCAA's highest-level programs throughout the 2012 season describes its high-powered system of billion-dollar television deals, high-priced coaches, football "hostessing," castoff athlete-students and paid test takers.
4) Love game
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Love games ; 1
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English
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"WNBA All Star and Olympic gold medalist Kate Snyder captured her first national championship at Wolcott University in her undergrad days, and now she is the coaching legend of the #1 women's college basketball team. Then the college hires Danny McMillan, a coach trying to escape scandal, and pays him more than she earns. Snark and sparks fly between the two coaches until they finally see eye to eye, and then the sparks get even hotter. Now they need...
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Love games ; 2
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English
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Tyrell Ransom, the new men's basketball coach, is ready to whip his team into shape and start winning some games. But when compromising photos of his soon-to-be-ex-wife with one of his players go viral, everything comes crashing down. With reporters thick on the ground, Ty and his team need some serious damage control now. When public relations guru Millie Jenkins arrives in her leopard-print cape to save the day, things really heat up... Soon they're...
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs...
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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In the early '70s, Cathy Rush became the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team had no gym or uniforms, and the school was in danger of being sold, Coach Rush steered her girls to their first national championship.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"This story is rooted in the power of sport, but it is not a sports memoir. Yes, Course Correction chronicles one young woman's transformation from a couch potato-in-training into an elite athlete who reached the highest echelon of her sport. In addition, the book offers a persuasive example of the enormous impact of sports participation on the rest of life and validates the power, import, and necessity of Title IX. Just like Ginny, girls everywhere...
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Millbrook Press
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[2016]
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English
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"Doeden takes readers on a journey from the disorganized games of the early years to the most recent playoffs to determine the best college team in the nation. Along the way, discover some of the most incredible moments, games, blunders, and statistics in the history of college football championships"--Amazon.com.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject.
Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining...
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Check please! ; 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Y'all... I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It's nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack... You see the problem."-Page [2] of cover.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Both dispatch and dissertation, NPR contributor Diane Roberts, an English professor at Florida State University, gives a insider's account of a big time college football program in the midst of controversy, while examining the impact and legacy of the sport's popularity in America today"--
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"By the face of The Big Ten Network, the story of the creation of the college football nation from 1890 to 1915, the intense media coverage, the academic fraud, recruiting scandals, shocking violence, new sports superstars, and the manifest destiny of football out of the Ivy League and to the Great Midwest"--
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A former college basketball player and shoe rep for Nike details his experience of the dark underworld of college basketball, revealing how profit-driven sports programs exploit athletes and circumvent the NCAA's amateurism rules through the use of corporate sponsorships."--
19) End zone
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1972.
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English
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"Don DeLillo's second novel, a sort of Dr. Strangelove meets North Dallas Forty, solidified his place in the American literary landscape in the early 1970s. The story of an angst-ridden, war-obsessed running back for Logos College in West Texas, End Zone is a heady and hilarious conflation of Cold War existentialism and the parodied parallelism of battlefield/sports rhetoric. When not arguing nuclear endgame strategy with his professor, Major Staley,...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
Chronicles the rise of the multibillion dollar college sports empire through the experience of the Florida State Seminoles, discussing how ethical and legal compromises undermine the academic missions of universities.
"A searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious,...
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