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Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Demonstrates the game-changing power of trustworthiness. Through action-filled stories, captivating spreads, and a character-building quiz, readers will consider their own character and be encouraged to take it to the next level.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending book, Kirsten is playing Hide-and-Go Seek with her sister. Will she follow the rules or cheat? Readers make choices for Kirsten and read what happens next, with each story path leading to different consequences. Includes four different endings and discussions questions"--
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty--it's fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of domestic violence saves the game, how is one to cheer? Welcome to the club for sports fans who care too...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? Illustrated with photographs by Thai Neave, The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration on the court of life. Each rule containswisdom...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its "student-athletes" while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out because their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook,"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gripping memoir about college basketball by game-changing, decorated veteran player Ed O'Bannon, with his co-writer Michael McCann, as they dig deep into O'Bannon's champion athletics and his radical act to bring a watershed, winning legal case against the Goliath that is the NCAA.
"Like Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson, who paved the way for free agency in sports, Ed O'Bannon decided there was a principle at stake... O'Bannon gave the movement to...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When the federal government catches hotshot financial adviser Louis Martin "Marty" Blazer defrauding his NFL-player clients, it's time to come clean. He has no reasonable defense. What he has is a bigger story to spill to the feds--that of a multibillion-dollar conspiracy that exploits the most talented college athletes and implicates one of the most popular entertainment industries in the nation. The DOJ is listening, and the truth could literally...
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