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The National Football League, despite its massive success and unprecedented earning power, is at its most pivotal moment since the AFL-NFL merger four decades ago. With public awareness of the issues plaguing the NFL--from concussions and CTE to issues of domestic violence, greed, and oversaturation--there is a possibility that football as we know it could vanish in the very near future. Author Mike Freeman has interviewed top NFL athletes, coaches,...
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How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players-from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota-for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots-high school and youth travel program-are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming...
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"Gregg Easterbrook is one of the country's best-known football commentators, having analyzed football on-air for ESPN and the NFL Network. MSNBC calls his ESPN blog 'the best and most compelling football column anywhere.' The King of Sports takes an expansive look at our biggest sport. Easterbrook explores these and many other topics: The real harm done by concussions (It's not to NFL players). The real way in which college football players are exploited...
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Here at last is the first book to fully explain how and why the game of football became America's most powerful and financially successful entertainment phenomenon--and how this country's pioneers of sports, games, industry, and politics helped transform a sleepy game inherited from Europe into one that would explain what America wanted to become and who we are as a people.
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For the many towns and cities of Texas, high school football is more than a sport or an extracurricular activity-it's the glue of their community. Author Gray Levy, a high school football coach for more than two decades, became disillusioned with the state of the education system nationwide and traveled to Texas, a place where high school football still matters, to see just what schools and communities were doing right. What he found will both confirm...
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An essential story of understated courage, the lasting power of a name, and the battle to honor a pioneering legacy On the eve of his second varsity football game for the Iowa State Cyclones, Jack Trice wrote in a letter, "The honor of my race, family and self are at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will!" The introspective 21-year-old was ever aware of his status in 1923 as the college's first Black football player. Trice would...
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Play in the Australian Football League is not what it was. At the game's founding, Australian football was exactly what the AFL's Latin motto tells us it is today – 'the game of the people, for the people'. In its formative years it was played and watched by Australians who loved the game because they understood the way it was played. It was made by them, in the image of their community. However, in the age of commercialisation and professionalism,...
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Each year, on a Saturday in November, emotions run high as the entire state of Alabama comes to a halt. Stores close. Bars open. Families, friends, and couples who on any other day of the year are civil to one another become enemies. Young men strap on their equipment to partake in the annual frenzy that they will not experience again in their lives, whether or not they go on to play professionally. And a victory gives them and their fans bragging...
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A wry and witty commentary on college sports and identity in the complicated social landscape of the South.
Ed Southern, lifelong fan of the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, the smallest school in the NCAA's Power 5, set out to tell the story of how he got tangled, in vines of history and happenstance, with the two giants of his favorite sport: the Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers. He set out to tell how a North Carolina native crossed...
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Le football féminin connait une médiatisation et un succès croissants! Il soulève aussi, par la même occasion, de nombreuses questions...
Pourquoi le ballon rond est-il aussi populaire chez les Américaines?
Comment le cinéma aborde-t-il le football féminin?
Le hooliganisme épargne-t-il les femmes?
Le mouvement féministe a-t-il déjà investi les terrains?
Faut-il inciter sa fille à faire du foot?
En 60 questions-réponses, Le football...
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This insider's account of the 2013 Super Bowl blackout cuts across the city's cultural landscape to reveal what change has meant for New Orleanians.
Hosting the Super Bowl was set to be a major event for New Orleans. Not only was it a commercial boon for the city, but it would also be the first game played in the Superdome since it had been used as a shelter during Hurricane Katrina. As the big game approached, the entire city was determined to...
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¡Sigue los intercambios de dos fanáticos del fútbol durante el Mundial de Rusia!
Durante el pasado Mundial de Rusia, Galder Reguera y Carlos Marañón prometieron escribirse una carta cada noche en ese momento mágico en el que todos duermen. Esta correspondencia, como cualquier partido de fútbol, tiene varios relatos: se puede leer como el testimonio de dos padres desbordados que escriben para reconquistar la normalidad frente a la presión...
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Against a backdrop of increasing pressures and criticism of the game itself, 1st and Forever takes a stand to contend that football is vital by showcasing the inner character of those who've played the game. From European refugees who carved out their legacies between yard markers, to life-changing humanitarians inspired by their on-field experiences, to Hall of Fame players whose positive influence has extended far beyond the close of their careers,...
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Did Baylor University lose sight of its Baptist roots and focus on notoriety gained from sports achievements? Laura Leigh Majernik examines court documents filed by fifteen "Jane Does" against Baylor alleging violation of their Title IX rights after experiencing sexual assault. The problem was not exclusive to the football team and indeed was a campus-wide issue and a blind spot in administration protocols.
16) Red on Red
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The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football
Liverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is a divide that spans generations, across class, gender and ethnicity. And it has grown over the years, largely driven by one thing: football. The dark, malignant loathing shared by the followers of Liverpool and...
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Qu'est-ce qu'être supporter ? Quels sont les ressorts de l'engouement, tantt folklorique, tantt fanatique, pour une équipe de football ? Les supporters constituent-ils une population à part ? Sont-ils, à l'inverse, des miroirs grossissants ou déformants de nos sociétés ?
En se focalisant sur les supportérismes des équipes nationales de football, cet ouvrage ambitionne de combler un vide dans l'étude du supportérisme et de ses implications...
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