Download or read book Until the Lion Speaks written by Billy Moore and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter until the lion speaks" is an African proverb. The premise of the proverb explains how people will glorify a story or create a narrative about someone that isn't necessarily accurate or even make themselves look good. This is done only to create an attitude within people toward other people that they want to paint a negative point of view of.This book was written to complicate the narrative of the story that sensationalized the confrontation of Ben Wilson and Billy Moore. Billy not only addressed just the confrontation on that unfortunate day but also set out to outline his pedigree, his upbringing, his experience in prison, and the work he had been doing since his release.Until the Lion Speaks tells of the social landscape that defined Chicago in the eighties. Anyone who reads this book from Chicago growing up at that time will feel Chicago in every line. In fact, Billy Moore has made the city of Chicago as a separate character in Until the Lion Speaks! This is a comeback story, a story of redemption and reconciliation. Hopefully, the lessons that can be learned from Until the Lion Speaks will help young men develop the emotional skills to successfully get past those moments. When confronted with unfortunate circumstances, the lessons in this book can help them make better decisions so they can walk away to hopefully live their best lives!

Download or read book Life Love and Golf written by Wayne Cleghorn and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends begin playing in big-money games at county clubs throughout the South. One falls for the pleasures of life, one falls in love with his high school sweetheart, and a relationship is put to the ultimate test. Come along for the ride!

Download or read book Last of the Redmen written by Billy Mitaritonna and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to read a "feel good" story? Are you ready to be inspired? Last of the Redmen is a coming of age story about an underdog named Billy Mitaritonna from Rosedale, Queens in New York. This memoir chronicles the supportive relationship between Billy and his father Angelo, who used sports to teach life lessons. Billy went through personal setbacks as a teenager that he needed to overcome. He loved the game of basketball but was cut from the Archbishop Molloy basketball team all 4 years in high school. With the guidance of his father Angelo, he did not quit despite the odds, and played Division 3 basketball for Jim Graffam at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine. After 2 years, he moved back to Queens to take care of his family and continued his education at St. John's University. *How did Billy become a walk-on for the St. John's basketball team after never playing a minute of high school basketball? *How did he get there? *Who got him to believe in himself?*What lessons did he learn? *How did this change his life?Read Last of the Redmen to learn how Billy Mitaritonna overcame adversity to become a college basketball player and successful high school teacher and coach. Sometimes you only need one person to believe you can succeed. Billy was lucky to have several people in his life to guide him in the right direction. Last of the Redmen is a feel good story that will motivate you never to quit on your dream no matter what people say or do.

Download or read book A Sense of Where You Are written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. In A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself—his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.

Download or read book The Book of Basketball written by Bill Simmons and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

Download or read book Disciplined Entrepreneurship written by Bill Aulet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 Steps to Success! Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren’t born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply. You will learn: Why the “F” word – focus – is crucial to a startup’s success Common obstacles that entrepreneurs face – and how to overcome them How to use innovation to stand out in the crowd – it’s not just about technology Whether you’re a first-time or repeat entrepreneur, Disciplined Entrepreneurship gives you the tools you need to improve your odds of making a product people want. Author Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. For more please visit http://disciplinedentrepreneurship.com/

Download or read book Back from the Dead written by Bill Walton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NBA sports star and cultural icon discusses his catastrophic spinal collapse in 2007, the excruciating pain he suffered and his slow recovery, as well as his childhood, sports career, and the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.

Download or read book For the Love of Basketball written by Frederick C. Klein and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressing the passion felt for basketball using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the sport explores the hardwood heroes in a fresh and fun way. Readers will enjoy fun facts about NBA superstars past and present, including LeBron, Kobe, Jordan, and Magic, seemingly doing the impossible on the court.

Download or read book Values of the Game written by Bill Bradley and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former U.S. Senator and member of two championship New York Knicks teams revisits his first career in a series of personal observations and reflections that illustrate how the "right stuff" on the court is a proving ground for the "right stuff" in life

Download or read book How to Be Like Coach Wooden written by Pat Williams and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-03-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wooden is an American icon. Since he announced his retirement thirty years ago, “Coach” remains one of our country's most popular and heroic figures. What John Wooden accomplished as basketball coach at UCLA will never be repeated—eighty-eight victories in a row, ten national championships—but what makes his legacy even more amazing is how he did it: with honor, integrity and grace. In his research for How to Be Like Coach Wooden, Pat Williams recounts well over 800 interviews. The result is an inspiring motivational biography about a great hero of basketball and one of the most amazing leaders in history. How to Be Like Coach Wooden is the next dynamic book in the How to Be Like "character biography" series, which focuses on drawing out important lessons from the lives of great men and women. In this book, readers will learn from Coach Wooden, a beacon of honesty, goodness and faith. Wooden cared about winning in basketball, but he cared more about winning in life.

Download or read book Chasing Perfect written by Bob Hurley and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed basketball coach of St. Anthony's High School in Jersey City traces his decades-long career, citing his championship coaching strategies and memorable players from the team's seven undefeated seasons.

Download or read book Billy s Boy written by Patricia Nell Warren and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of a teenage boy's odyssey, "Billy's Boy" has already been a #1 bestseller on the "Lambda" and "Advocate" lists in hardcover, and has garnered rave reviews from "Library Journal, Lambda Book Report", and "The Washington Blade".

Download or read book Basketball written by Jackie MacMullan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons. This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet crosses oceans, upends lives and changes nations. This is the true story of basketball. It is the story of a Canadian invention that took over America, and the world. Of a supposed “white man’s sport” that became a way for people of color, women, and immigrants to claim a new place in society. Of a game that demands everything of those who love it, yet gives so much back in return. To tell this story, acclaimed journalists Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores embarked on a groundbreaking mission to interview a staggering lineup of basketball trailblazers. For the first time hundreds of legends, from Kobe, Lebron and Steph Curry to Magic Johnson, Dr. J and Jerry West, spoke movingly about their greatest passion. Former NBA commissioner David Stern and iconic coaches like Phil Jackson and Coach K opened up like never before. Those who shattered glass ceilings, from Bill Russell and Yao Ming to Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie, explained what it really took to lay claim to their place in the game. At once a definitive oral history and something far more revelatory and life affirming, Basketball: A Love Story is the defining untold oral history of how basketball came to be, and what it means to those who love it.

Download or read book Lush Life written by Richard Price and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a cocky young hipster is shot by a street kid from the "other" Lower East Side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city, in this brilliant and kaleidoscopic portrait of the "new" New York.

Download or read book Love Never Again written by Wallace Draper and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His parents’ tragic deaths consigns an American boy to an orphanage, where his only escape is to join the army. Shipped off to London in 1944, he prevents the suicide of a pregnant young British girl by marrying her on the brink of D-day. Following the horrors of WWII, he returns to his young wife, but she still loves another. Years pass without love or faith, and he is estranged from the boy he raised as his son. The death of his wife and hatred of his son leave him desolate until a mysterious woman changes his life. His lonely existence ends as his faith returns, and love never again becomes love again and again. This is the male version of the novel. A woman’s version is the second part. A young American soldier marries a pregnant British girl to save her from suicide, then he goes off to war. This story follows each character’s journey through fear, doubt, and the acceptance of their fates through letters to each other while WWII rages in Europe. Reunited after the war ends, these virtual strangers have to discover how to become a family. Through the twists and turns of circumstances, they all discover that faith, love, and forgiveness are the salve that heals broken hearts to make loving again possible. Love Never Again is really two books in one. The struggles of finding love and keeping one’s faith in God despite the horrors of war and personal loss make this story real, and each version finds resolution in its own way.

Download or read book Winning on and Off the Court written by Kristy Tankersley and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing Bill Krueger ever wanted to do was play basketball and then, later, coach it. In 1996, when he retired, he was the "Winningest Basketball Coach in the Nation." In 2018, he was honored by the Naismith Hall of Fame. In every aspect of his life, he's been a "Winner." On the outside, he was a gruff man who demanded and received the very best from every player he coached. As the players left his program, however, they noticed a softer side. He became a father-figure and life long friend and supporter. Off the court, Krueger had a winning game, as well. He married the love of his life and raised a loving and devoted family. His story is inspiring, interesting and funny.

Download or read book Twin Bill I Love You I Love You My Life with Women written by Joseph G. Cowley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Bill consists of two plays tied together by their themes of love and lust in mature men and women. In I Love You, I Love You an out-of-work writer and a married woman meet and fall in love in Alcoholics Anonymous. Through an anguished affair they learn a valuable lesson in spiritual growth and responsibility. In My Life With Women an unusual drama of the absurd, a lustful old man is visited by the ghosts and memories of the many women he has loved over a lifetime.