Download or read book Coach Ridley s Basketball Glory written by Constance Ridley Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's passion for basketball catalyzed a movement that could not be contained within the parquet court. The game was basketball. The issue was equality. The entire community was victorious. It was a time of Basketball Glory.
Download or read book Coach Ridley s Basketball Glory written by Constance Ridley Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...In The Nick Of Time...Everything is in God's Timing" Especially to those who wait humbly on him for their answers to come. This novel I wrote has details about a struggling positive thinking girl named Nicole (Nick) who grew up around a negative environment full of rapes, drug trades and fights. Her mother, Isis, didnt make her life any easier. Who would have thought that her own mother was the one who hooked Nicole up with the crack dealer, Mike, just to pay off the tab from the drugs that her mother owed. After Nicole realized what her mother had done and leaving Mike's body for dead, her mother became more furious of Nicole, told her she would amount to nothing, hit Nicole so hard in the jaw that it knocked her off her feet and drove her to leave the house. Nicole left the house with a few items, but left a package that was worth a lot behind. What was it? Did she get it in good timing? Who did she meet? Sometimes it may feel like we are fighting battles that no one can win, but as for Nicole Salina Lewis...she knew that even throughout all the struggles, she was determined to find a better life for herself. Have patience in life, and the answer will come.
Download or read book Coach Ridley Bringing Back the Glory written by Constance Ridley-Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ridley's Tigers won the 1981 TSSAA Basketball Championship Semi- Finals The Booker T. Washington Warriors had little trouble knifing through Pearl High's beloved zone... Washington led 23-15 at the end of the first quarter and 40-26 at half time....Pearl looked so bad in the first half, the Tigers gave no inkling of what was to come" (Banner Sports Writer Pam Clark, The Nashville Banner, 1981) "Coach Ridley told us to never give up. And we didn't" (Tiger Captain David Smith, 1981) Pearl won the semi-final game over Booker T. Washington High 63-61. Finals The next night, Pearl's game against Memphis Carver transcended the parquet. "Pearl appeared to believe that the golden basketball trophy belonged to them from the tip off." (Cindy Smith, 1981, The Tennessean) "We usually can match up with a physical team like Pearl, but they were far from physical than us tonight." ( Memphis Carver Coach Ed Thornton) "The huge crowd which sang and cheered for the last three minutes of the game from high up in the bleacher seats" (Cindy Smith, 1981, The Tennessean) They, too, were Bringing Back the Glory. Pearl High over Memphis Carver 64-53 Pearl High School of Nashville Tennessee 1981 State Basketball Champions Cornelius Ridley, Head Coach
Download or read book Glory Days Illinois written by Taylor Bell and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the way, somebody invented the jump shot and the crossover dribble and added a three-point line. Times changed, the game was integrated, players grew taller and more wildly athletic. That evolution is chronicled in Glory Days, as 50 of the state's best high school basketball players from the past five decades sit down to chat with longtime prep basketball scribe Taylor Bell. Every last one of the featured players was an all-state selection. Some led their teams to state titles; others were chosen as Illinois' Mr. Basketball; many were named McDonald's All-Americans.Glory Days pulls its roster from all regions of the state: from southern Illinois (Edwardsville, Centralia, Mount Vernon) to the state's waist (Galesburg, Peoria, Decatur) to north of I-80 (Rockford, Evanston, and many Chicago schools).Each player on the roster relives his time on the high school hardwood, but also reveals what happened after he walked down the aisle in his cap and gown. Bell catches up with greats like Mannie Jackson, Dave Downey, Jay Shidler, Jack Sikma, Rashard Griffith, Cazzie Russell, Kiwane Garris, Cuonzo Martin, and Billy Ridley, and discovers what happened to these legends later in life, after their hops deserted them. Their Chuck Taylors may be a distant memory, but for each of these former stars, basketball has continued to hold a special place in their heart.
Download or read book Glory of Old IU Indiana University written by Bob Hammel and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handsome coffee-table book, Glory of Old IU is the most comprehensive book ever written about Indiana University athletics. Never-before-published details about the 100 years of IU's membership in the Big Ten Conference are captured in this one-of-a-kind book. Glory of Old IU includes vignettes about all of IU's greatest moments, including its five NCAA basketball championships. There are stories about Bob Knight, Mark Spitz, Isiah Thomas, Harry Gonso, and many others. Thousands of other names are included in the all-time letter-winners list. Glory of Old IU is must reading for anyone who is loyal to the Hoosiers.
Download or read book Heads of State written by Mark Hostutler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of basketball spans more than a century, from its humble origin as a simple diversion during the harsh winters in America to today's perennial, rim-rattling show of international renown. Throughout the last 60 years, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the sports evolution, supplying the world with a steady stream of stars, from Wilt Chamberlain to Kobe Bryant, who have proven to be some of the best to ever play the game. In Heads of State: Pennsylvanias Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era, sportswriter Mark Hostutler sizes up the commonwealth to rank its 500 most-accomplished scholastic players from 1950-2010. With input from Sonny Vaccaro, Howard Garfinkel, and other hoops cognoscenti, the author canvassed the Keystone State, conducting hundreds of hours of research and interviews to assemble a list that is sure to stir passionate debate within an already buzzing community of roundball fans. Hostutlers unique compilation highlights the exploits of Billy Owens, Tom McMillen, Gene Banks, Tyreke Evans, Donyell Marshall, Jameer Nelson, Geoff Petrie, and several others, as they reminisce about their achievements as teenagers on the hardwood. Wonderfully crafted and jam-packed with information, the book is perfect for hard-core fans, stat junkies, or anyone in search of a good read.
Download or read book All Guts and No Glory written by Bill Elder and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the recent film Glory Road reminded, the early desegregation of college sports often was neither easy nor pleasant. Here Bill Elder recalls how he and a courageous group of white and black student-athletes broke racial barriers at a small college in northeast Alabama in the early 1970s. The setting was Sand Mountain, an area which four decades earlier had given rise to the Scottsboro Boys case, and where racial attitudes for some had not changed much. Elder has recently retired from a successful career as a college sports administrator, but here he shows vividly why he sometimes wondered whether he and his players would live through their experience. Abandoned by their school officials, the players faced constant threats and harassment and occasional violence. But they kept playing and winning games and forging bonds between themselves that lasted long after that first season was over. Through it all, Elder, an Alabama native and lifelong Baptist, watches his community with both a loving and an objective eye. His brief eyewitness account of both the worst and best elements of Southerners during this tumultuous era is compelling testimony.
Download or read book Glory Road written by Don Haskins and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, he used a starting lineup of five black players to beat the top-ranked University of Kentucky team, paving the way for desegregation of all Southern college teams.
Download or read book What I Know about Leadership I Learned from Basketball written by Constance Ridley Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic. Fluid. Decisive. Leadership on the parquet is all of that. What happens on the court is all about winning, and good leadership makes it happen. This book brings that best of Pearl High basketball action into leadership focus. You will relive the basketball contests that defined the national fame of the Pearl High Tigers. Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Coach Cornelius Ridley was the Tiger Mentor. This book contains leadership lessons from the Tiger Coach, a three-time Nashville Interscholastic League Coach of the Year (1973, 1977, and 1981), selected by his peers and celebrated by the Nashville Community. Read leadership vignette about those who mentored Coach Ridley and those who worked alongside him as colleagues. Glean leadership practices that you can use in your own sphere of leadership-on the court or off.
Download or read book The Final Four written by Matt Doeden and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! When basketball fans hear the words Final Four, they probably think of the buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busters that have thrilled people for years. However, you don't need to be a die-hard fan to know that the NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the most popular sports events in the United States. By the time the tournament of 64 teams has been whittled down to the Final Four, excitement reaches a fever pitch. From the first intercollegiate basketball game played in 1895 all the way to the thrills and drama of the most recent Final Four, read about the shocking moments and stunning upsets that give March Madness its name.
Download or read book Lapchick written by Gus Alfieri and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only biography of this Hall of Fame player and legendary coach.
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Download or read book The Assist written by Neil Swidey and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows coach Jack O'Brien, who led Boston's Charlestown High School basketball team to victory in several state championships, and chronicles his relationship with two talented African-American basketball players.
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