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More and more women and girls are discovering the joy and relishing the fierce competition of team sports. Their increasing participation in sports is influencing all aspects of women's-and men's-lives. Playing Like a Girl explores the ramifications of this sports revolution, such as the change in male-female relationships, the impact on women in the workplace, the long-term effects of Title IX, and the phenomenon of men coaching women. These ideas...
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Remember when gay marriage was the easiest way to inflame an otherwise mild electorate? This volume demonstrates, through speeches, interviews, and commentary, the encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians--gay and straight--have played in that history. This movement began with individuals telling the truth about who they are to a world that doesn't accept them. From Supervisor Harvey Milk articulating...
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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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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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Bestselling author Queenan explores the world of sports fans in an attempt to understand the inexplicable: What does anyone get out of it?
For Yankee, Cowboy, and Laker fans the answer is fairly clear: the return on investment is relatively high. But why do people root so passionately for tragically inept teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs, and the Philadelphia Phillies? Why do people organize their emotional lives around lackluster...
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"Even the most ardent, die-hard Yankees fans have no idea of what really goes on behind closed doors in the inner sanctum of the Bronx Bombers. Sure, the fans read the back sections of the daily tabloids, all the sports blogs, and listen to the radio call-in sports shows 24/7, but in truth, the average fan isn't aware of the internal power politics that Yankees front-office executives confront on an everyday basis"--
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"The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are likely to feature the first transgender athlete, a topic that will be highly contentious during the competition. But transgender and intersex athletes such as Laurel Hubbard, Tifanny Abreu, and Caster Semenya didn't just turn up overnight. Both intersex and transgender athletes have been newsworthy stories for decades. In Sporting Gender: The History, Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes, Joanna...
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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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A fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer.
Sports fandom isn't what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans and too often act against the team's best interest. Sports fans are left deliberating not only mismanagement, but also political, health, and ethical issues.
In Rethinking Fandom: How To Beat The Sports Industrial Complex at Its Own Game, sportswriter...
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A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular, the...
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Do you ever wonder why athletes always seem to thank God, first and foremost, in post-game interviews? Or why they point to the heavens following a home run or a touchdown? This book takes a look at the relationship between top athletes and religiosity (or spirituality) in a number of different ways. It aims to address the issues of when sport and religion began to merge, whether professional athletes are, in fact, more religious than the rest of...
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LEARN TERMS, THINGS TO KNOW, DONT BE THE OUTSIDER COACH, PLAYER OR PARENTS THAT DONT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. LET A FORMER PRO, COACH, COLLEGE PROFESSOR, AND SPORTS DAD HELP YOU. Coach Earl has helped produce many kids as college basketball players but his wisdom and understanding can help any kids and parents in any sport.
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Get the Summary of Lauren Fleshman's Good for a Girl in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Lauren Fleshman's memoir "Good for a Girl" details her journey as a female athlete navigating the complexities of a sports world not designed for women. Raised by a father who believed in her limitless potential, Lauren faced the contradictory nature of his support, as he also struggled with alcohol abuse and mistreated her mother......
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Juego limpio y formación de valores recoge las estrategias pedagógicas desarrolladas por el autor en su asignatura sobre fútbol y valores, durante dieciocho años. El juego limpio en el fútbol, en el desarrollo mismo de la competencia, y no solo en los saludos o actos protocolarios, hace parte fundamental de sus estrategias, pues representa una propuesta de rivalidad con posibilidades de practicar este deporte de forma competitiva y humana. Así,...
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Chapa Wellness Map: A Systematic Approach to Physical Activity redefines the three terms that are indispensable for the future of physical activity and sports: wellness, fitness, and high performance. These are the three fundamental concepts for this new system that will bring inactive people out of their sedentary lifestyle, will be a model for the sports industry, and will be a basis for a world classification system of the different levels of physical...
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In this book you will discover the truth that Homo sapiens is the missing link in human evolution. That Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo-a charlatan, a fraud, a villain, a quack! That all the academic stuff about consciousness, language, science, and so on, emanating exclusively from (and created by) Homo sapiens is evolutionary hogwash!
It all came not from Homo sapiens as this recently arrived, pathological...
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Life is hard. As humans, we compete with each other on a daily basis for resources-jobs, money, esteem, status, companionship, material assets, etc. What illustrates competition better than the world of sports, where success in competition is the crucial factor in an athlete's livelihood? But there are rules in sports. And restrictions on behavior. There are processes to learn and practices to master. There is value in teamwork. And success in hard...
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INTRO. Co edited by T-Bone.
Growing up in a predominately white area of Moline, IL I definitely felt something was wrong or odd. In my grade school I was often 1 of 4 or 6 African Americans in a school of 300 K thru 6 students. Most of the 4 or 6 were sibling groups who went to the same school. Of those sibling groups, we often knew each other from our parents knowing or working together, and in some cases, we lived on the same block or in the same...
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