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Follows the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen, hoping he will turn the world's worst soccer team around in this humorous and heartfelt underdog story.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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What do Henry Kissinger, Jack Welch, Condoleezza Rice, and Jon Bon Jovi have in common? They have all reached the top of their respective professions, and they all credit sports for teaching them the lessons that were fundamental to their success. In his years spent interviewing and profiling celebrities, politicians, and top businesspeople, popular sportscaster and Fox & Friends cohost Brian Kilmeade has discovered that nearly everyone shares a love...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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890L
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Extreme snow and ice sports such as snowboarding, skiing, ice climbing, snowmobiling, and sledding can put you on the edge of your seat. Slide in and explore the world from the view of an extreme athlete.
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"Recovery--physical and mental--is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology, and commerce have all taken note. This second edition of The Athlete's Guide to Recovery helps readers sort through the hype to focus on the practices and devices that really make a difference in recovery and lead to peak performance"--
6) Mastering golf's mental game: your ultimate guide to better on-course performance and lower scores
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"To be a golfer is to tinker--with everything from equipment to the various performance elements of the game. But one place most players don't give enough attention is the mental game. Psychologists aren't a new phenomenon in golf, but Dr. Michael Lardon is a different breed of performance coach. Instead of sending his players into a losing battle against emotion, indecision and fear on the golf course, he shows them how to organize their thoughts...
10) Baseball blowup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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630L
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"Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball"--Title verso page.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
12) ATV cheat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Teenage ATV riders Josh and Christyna find that someone has been sabotaging the trails, putting the safety of ATV racers and mountain bikers in jeopardy, and they need to find out who is responsible and catch the cheat before the next race.
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"Fitzgerald puts you into the pulse-pounding action of more than a dozen epic races from running, cycling, triathlon, XTERRA, and rowing with thrilling race reports and revealing post-race interviews with the elites. Their own words reinforce what the research has found: strong mental fitness lets us approach our true physical limits, giving us an edge over physically stronger competitors. Each chapter explores the how and why of an elite athlete's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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590L
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"When Robinson learns about wheelchair rugby during Super Sports Saturday, he can't wait to try it. But then his family moves to Alabama to help take care of his grandma after she gets hurt. Robinson's in luck, though. His dad tells him about an organization called the Shore that has a wheelchair rugby team."--
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This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...
17) Full-court mess
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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640L
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"Eighth-grader Lisa Vega and her basketball teammates, the Dingoes, have made it to the semifinals, but before the first game their school gym is vandalized. With no place to practice in the middle of winter the playoffs are in jeopardy. As this years' captain Lisa is determined to find out who it was who tried to sabotage the team--and why"--Title verso page.
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"It's How You Play the Game tells us what [athletes] were looking for when they started and what they found." - Teddy Atlas, boxing trainer and commentator
"Really gets at the heart of what sports is all about. …Great read for anyone who ever played a sporyt." - Tommy Lasorda, former Los Angeles Dodgers manager
"I've watched many great players, but this is the first book that shows me how they became great people. " - Joe Buck, Fox Sports
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19) Free throw fail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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600L
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"Jake's jump shot is as good as money in the bank, but when he heads to the foul line... clank! If Jake doesn't find a way to solve his free throw woes, his coach will have no choice but to put him on the pine. Will Jake nail it, or will he fail it?" --
20) Puck panic
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Twelve-year-old Calvin is the small but speedy left wing for his hockey team, but when he takes a really hard bodycheck during first game of a tournament he starts to freeze up on the ice and worry he will be benched.
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