Download or read book Why Men Watch Football written by Bob Andelman and published by Mr. Media Books. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every weekend in the living rooms of America, from August through January, millions of men are seated in front of their television sets watching college and professional football. Meanwhile, others are pouring into stadiums all across the land, a bounce in their step, hope in their heart, and a beer in at least one hand. What is it that excites men about football? What the big attraction? Why is it that some men will sit down for three, six, or even nine hours in front of a TV set when football is on, yet they won’t sit still for more than 15 minutes for anything else when they’re home? Why is it that some men get so emotionally involved in watching football that they’ll scream, jump up and down, cheer and otherwise act as if they have a screw loose when their team wins—and become upset or even severely depressed when they lose? With the help of some of the nation’s leading sports psychologists and sociologists and dozens of male football fans, author Bob Andelman explores the male psyche and arrives at several intriguing and controversial conclusions about why men watch football.

Download or read book Fans Called Him Turkey I Called Him Dad written by Rosilyn Stearnes-Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball Hall of Famer Norman Thomas "Turkey" Stearnes (1901-1979) batted more than .400 three times, led the Negro Leagues in home runs seven times and holds the all-time Negro Leagues record for career home runs. Despite his legendary achievements on the field, Stearnes worked off-seasons in Detroit's auto plants, including one owned by Walter Briggs, who also owned the Detroit Tigers--a team Stearnes couldn't play for because he was black. Written by his eldest daughter, this first biography of "Turkey" Stearnes intimately recounts his life and career and gives overdue recognition to one of the greatest all-around players in the history of baseball.

Download or read book The Men of Lancaster County 5 in 1 written by Mindy Starns Clark and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come for a visit to Pennsylvania Amish country and meet the Men of Lancaster County! In this exclusive ebook-only bundle, The Men of Lancaster County 5-in-1 explores the lives of five Amish men in a close-knit community, their beliefs and struggles, and the women who change their futures. Written by Mindy Starns Clark, Susan Meissner, and Virginia Smith, each well-crafted tale tells of a journey taken toward love and truth by a conflicted and earnest young man. Enjoy these four full-length novels plus an additional ebook-only short story: The Amish Groom The Amish Blacksmith Lilies on Daybreak Pond The Amish Clockmaker The Amish Widower These stories of second chances and redeeming love follow the lives of several Lancaster County men, including prior Englisch military brat Tyler Anderson, now a questioning Amish farmer; Jake Miller, the blacksmith with a knack for gentling skittish horses; father Joel Miller, mourning the loss of his daughter to the Englisch world; newlywed Matthew Zook, who uncovers a decades-old mystery surrounding an exiled clockmaker; and Seth Hostetler, a twice-widowed young man whose pottery lessons may lead to a remolding of the heart. Each of these men has experienced loss and heartache. Will they find the love, forgiveness, and truth they are seeking? Come join the community at Lancaster County to see love at work!

Download or read book Little Locke and the Mighty Indians of 1975 written by Steven P. Locke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Steven P. Locke was a twelve-year-old boy growing up in Canal Winchester, Ohio, he witnessed something extraordinarya championship football season, coached by his father Mike, that for a brief moment captivated a small Ohio town. A combination memoir and sports history, Little Locke and the Mighty Indians of 1975 chronicles the high school football teams winning year from the perspective of the coachs son. It paints a portrait of the town and its people as it was at the timethe way people lived, the music they listened to, the television shows they watched, their politics, and the mores of the time. It also focuses on the ten-game seasonhow football was practiced and played, the grueling nature of two-a- days, his fathers coaching style, the growing attention paid to the team as each victory led to more pressure to succeed the following week, and the town that followed and cheered them on in summer heat, driving rain, bitter cold, and disappointment. A snapshot of a town, its people, and their way of life in the second half of the twentieth century, Little Locke and the Mighty Indians of 1975 provides a firsthand look into the sense of wonderment and excitement of the experience from the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy

Download or read book Always My Hero written by Jennifer DeCuir and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bashful town librarian Bree Adams has put her friends' and family's needs before her own for as long as she can remember, in part to hide a hurtful secret. But on New Year's Eve, she resolves to stop punishing herself for old mistakes. Everyone deserves a happy ending, and she's going to get hers. But then she comes face to face with her painful past. Ryan Pettridge left Scallop Shores a hometown hero with a full scholarship to UCLA and an NFL destiny. Then a freak accident stole his hopes and dreams and turned the all-star athlete into a desk jockey accountant. Now his father's stroke brings him home to take over the family hardware store. Fate conspired once to keep Bree and Ryan apart. Despite the years that have passed, they still can't resist each other and sparks rekindle between them. But will their difficult past be too much to overcome or can Bree prove to Ryan once and for all that he has always been a hero in her eyes? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Download or read book Playmaker My Life and the Love of Football written by Glenn Hoddle and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘On the pitch he was a magician’ – Arsène Wenger The first full autobiography from former footballer and England manager Glenn Hoddle

Download or read book Michigan Men written by Mike Milano and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country there are about sixty elite high school wrestlers that are recruited to compete at top ten NCAA Division 1 wrestling programs per year. It is a far smaller number of those athletes who pursue a second sport. There is only one who has also earned a scholarship to play football at The University of Michigan - as a 5'6 running back. Mike Milano had reached this impossible dream. First carry, in front of 111,000 Michigan fans - six yards. Twelve months later he sat helplessly as his name rolled across the ESPN ticker: Michigan running back, Mike Milano, Charged with a Felony - Indefinitely suspended from the Michigan Football Team. He faced up to ten years in prison. The dream world he was living in had disappeared. At the same time, Michigan football was also going through a transition, one that was equally disastrous. In the brutally honest and gripping MICHIGAN MEN?, Mike tells us about that transition from behind the closed doors of Schembechler Hall, and the impact it had on his life.About the Author: Mike Milano grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches third grade as a part of the 2011 Teach For America Corps. He hopes that by writing his story, readers will understand the impact that one person can have on another person's life, and the importance of actively pursuing a life in which we make an effort to help each other. Publisher's website: http: //SBPRA.com/MikeMilan

Download or read book Things I Couldn t Tell My Mother written by Sue Johnston and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There was a lot that we kept from my mother. My dad would say to me as a teenager "Don't tell your mother." We couldn't face the disapproval.' Sue Johnston always seemed to be disappointing her mother. As a girl she never stayed clean and tidy like her cousins. As she grew older, she spent all her piano lesson money on drinks for her mates down the pub, and when she discovered The Cavern she was never at home. The final straw was when Sue left her steady job at a St Helen's factory to try her hand at that unsteadiest of jobs: acting. Yet when Sue was bringing up her own child alone, her mother was always there to help. And playing her much-loved characters Sheila Grant in Waking the Dead and Barbara in The Royle Family- although her mum wouldn't say she was proud as such, she certainly seemed to approve. And in her mother's final months, it was Sue she needed by her side. The relationship with your mother is perhaps the most precious and fraught of any woman's life. When she began writing, Sue set out to record 'all the big things, and all the small things. Everything I wanted to tell my mother but felt I never could'. The result is a warm, poignant and often very funny memoir by one of Britain's favourite actresses.

Download or read book The Guardian and the Dream Crawler written by and published by SL Lewis. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Common Man Extraordinary Call written by Jeff Davidson and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges, equips, and inspires fathers of children with special needs Becoming the father of a child with special needs can feel like being drafted into the military--and starting duty as a general. Dad is expected to know how to set rules and run drills without any training in leadership. And there are very few resources for men who want to be involved but need guidance and specific ideas. Overwhelmed, many fathers end up going AWOL on their families. As a twenty-year veteran of special-needs parenting, Jeff Davidson wrote a field manual to give fathers the skills required for the day-to-day demands of parenting. Jeff helps men discover God's new mission for their lives in each of five specific roles: warrior, protector, provider, encourager, and equipper. He offers rich, real-life examples from dads in the field and a no-nonsense approach from initial diagnosis onward. This book is filled with practical how-tos for parenting in the special needs world, bullet points for easy reading and quick reference, and a Mission Critical synopsis at the end of each chapter. Informal and task-oriented, Common Man, Extraordinary Call offers growth and hope for men with little free time. And as they process their instructions, they'll be able to mentor other fathers, creating a strong army of men who not only survive but thrive as capable dads to their children with special needs.

Download or read book If This World Were Mine written by E. Lynn Harris and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four friends, all graduates of Hampton Institute, keep a collective journal they call "If This World Were Mine," and share their personal diaries each month at a gathering filled with humor, gossip, and affirmation. The four group members are as different as the seasons, yet they all share a love of one another. Yolanda, a media consultant, keeps it going on with a no-nonsense attitude and independence that are balanced by the theatrics of Riley, a former marketing executive whose marriage has reduced her to a "kept woman with kids." Computer engineer Dwight's anger at the world is offset by the compassion of Leland, a gay psychiatrist whose clients make him question why God ever invented sex. But after five years, the once-strong bonds of friendship are weakening, and the group must handle challenges of work, lost love, and a stranger in their midst. As the group members confront their true feelings toward each other, resentments and long-held secrets surface, and the stability of the group begins to disintegrate. Is their past friendship strong enough to survive the future?

Download or read book Beyond the Horizon written by UMA BALASUBRAMANIAM and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beyond the Horizon' is a journey of a dreamer who goes through childhood and adolescence walking the primrose path of fantasy. Married at twenty, she is pushed from this path to tread one submerged in prejudice, deceit and subterfuge while trying to find her feet in the ethos of Brahmanical culture to which she finds herself an alien. From a childhood governed by algebraic equations and riders, to murders and arsenic, the protagonist finds her hands full.

Download or read book The Andy Pero Story Project Superman written by Andy Pero and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Influence and Psychology of American Football Coaches Upon Adolescents written by Rachel Ocampo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Paperback Book written by Kate C. Wright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am not your typical ""girlie girl"". I know more about sports than most men do (daughter of a sportscaster), I hate flowers, jewelry, shopping etc. If a guy wants to impress me, it better be field and/or court side tickets to an NFL or NBA game. I am 30 years old, still single, following a dream, wallowing in self pity; yet I manage to briefly mask my self-loathing with wine, random flings with B list celebrities, professional athletes, dating men that are full blown sociopaths, and basically being a well known socialite. Unlike most relationship/non-fiction books about random people's lives, I am the voice of every 30 something woman, who just hasn't quite figured it out yet. This is about finding love, losing love, finding yourself, losing yourself, eating Taco Bell until you feel like you are going to die, and remembering regret overrides fear. Everyone has a story, I just have the balls to tell mine. This is my life, raw and unedited.

Download or read book To Marry a Prince written by A.C. Arthur and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A royal seduction Crown prince Kristian DeSaunters has been groomed since birth to take his place as leader of his tropical kingdom—with the proper princess by his side. Never one to lose his control, he's stunned by his attraction to the free-spirited American stylist who arrives at the palace in his father's fiancée's entourage. Soon Kris and Landry Norris are sharing an instant sultry attraction that shows no signs of slowing down. Landry couldn't turn down the opportunity of a lifetime to dress the princess-to-be on a private Caribbean island. Falling for Kris is definitely not part of her plan, but the independent LA beauty soon finds herself yearning for a fairy-tale ending of her own. Until someone sets out to sabotage the upcoming nuptials—and Landry becomes the prime suspect. Will Kris and Landry be able to stop a hidden enemy bent on destroying the DeSaunters reign—and save the possibility of a future together?

Download or read book Men in White written by Chris Raymond and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling sports story, Men in White is the tale of the young athletes who defied the doomsayers and rescued Penn State’s football program from the horrors of the Jerry Sandusky scandal—told by the players themselves. On November 5, 2011, the news that Jerry Sandusky had been charged with forty counts of child molestation rocked Penn State’s leafy campus, unseating the university president, the athletic director, and head coach Joe Paterno—devastating the football program he had erected and diligently maintained over half a century. Men in White recounts the saga of the student athletes who elected to stay and rebuild the program in the face of crippling NCAA sanctions, blistering heat from the outraged media, and radio silence from the adults in the school’s administration. With the once proud program in free fall and their personal fortunes in peril, these young men refused to back down, toiling for five long seasons to rehabilitate the program and its ideals, culminating in the stirring come-from-behind defeat of Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game. Their story echoes that of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a cast of young men—colossal underdogs—who boldly accepted the challenge of a lifetime, achieving success while shouldering the weight of a bruising political drama.