Author: Madison MoorePublisher:
ISBN: 9780807552711
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A look at how Black players came to shine on the basketball court.
More Than a Game
Author: Phil JacksonPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609802624
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
More than a Game covers the years that follow the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance." After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this book—together with his old friend, fellow player and coach, the basketball novelist Charley Rosen. Then Phil took the LA Lakers coaching job, Rosen followed him there, and by the time they finished writing this book it was 2000 and Phil had won yet another NBA championship, the first of five he would win with his new team. In More than a Game, Jackson and Rosen look backward to their origins as players and coaches, forward to the future of the game of basketball, and linger in the moving target of the present—lavishing page after page on the Triangle Offense and all the ways it reveals the essence of the game of basketball they both love so much. 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. As he writes in More than a Game of his newest championship team: "We won because our fundamentals were sound, because Shaq was so dominant and Kobe was so creative, but we also won because we developed a certain confidence in our ability to win."
More Than Just a Game
Author: Chuck KorrPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429922761
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer. In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked beatings and food deprivation by repeating their request for three years. Finally granted this right, the prisoners banded together to form a multi-tiered, pro-level league that ran for more than two decades and served as an impassioned symbol of resistance against apartheid. Former Robben Island inmate Nelson Mandela noted in the documentary FIFA: 90 Minutes for Mandela, "Soccer is more than just a game.... The energy, passion, and dedication this game created made us feel alive and triumphant despite the situation we found ourselves in."
Author: Phil Jackson
Author: Matt DoedenMuch More Than a Game
Author: Robert F. BurkPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875376
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.
More Than A Game
Author: Bella MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Aiden Murphy has always made me nervous.He's larger than life. Always the center of attention.I'm the opposite.I hate to have everyone's eyes on me.He lives his life in public, and I like to live behind the scenes.I had never been on his radar one single day in his very loud life, and then I was... What is it about Sabrina Cabot that throws me off my game?This uptight senator's daughter is the exact opposite of the type of woman I'm typically attracted to... and maybe that's a good thing.She makes me want to be a better man. To get more serious about life.To slow down.To give more.But will she be willing to give me her heart?At some point, life has to be more than a game.
More Than a Game
Author: David K. WigginsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538114984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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 States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring people together, the book chronicles the ways in which African Americans overcame racial discrimination to achieve success in an institution often described as America's only true meritocracy. African Americans have often glorified sport, viewing it as one of the few ways they can achieve a better life. In reality, while some African Americans found fame and fortune in sport, most struggled just to participate – let alone succeed at the highest levels of sport. Thus, the book has two basic themes. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.
Author: John Major
Author: Thad Williamson