Download or read book NFL Rising Stars written by Richard Deitsch and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of ten young National Football League stars: Randy Moss, Kurt Warner, Eddie George, Warren Sapp, Peyton Manning, Ricky Williams, Jevon Kearse, Warrick Dunn, Keyshawn Johnson, and Edgerrin James.
Download or read book Rising Stars NFL written by Joseph Layden and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief profiles of up-and-coming NFL superstars. Meet some of the NFL's newest--and most impressive--stars. They have the talent and the skills to become superstars. They'll be around for years to come, get to know them now.
Download or read book Rising Stars written by Alan Schwarz and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the challenges and accomplishments of ten of the best young players in baseball, including Nomar Garciaparra, Sean Casey, and Kevin Millwood.
Download or read book Rising Stars written by Tim Polzer and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the field with six of today's biggest starsand find out what makes them the best of thebest.
Download or read book Rising Stars written by Mike Brehm and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles ten notable young players in the National Hockey League, highlighting their goals and dedication.
Download or read book Football s New Wave written by Will Graves and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football’s New Wave gives readers a front-row seat to this transition from one generation to the next, with pages full of information about these players, where they came from, and what makes them stand out.
Download or read book Shaquille O Neal written by Pohla Smith and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and basketball career of the Los Angeles Lakers "big man" who led his team to two consecutive NBA championships in 2000 and 2001.
Download or read book Run to Glory and Profits written by David George Surdam and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Football League has long reigned as America's favorite professional sports league. In its early days, however, it was anything but a dominant sports industry, barely surviving World War II. Its rise began after the war, and the 1950s was a pivotal decade for the league. Run to Glory and Profits tells the economic story of how in one decade the NFL transformed from having a modest following in the Northeast to surpassing baseball as this country's most popular sport. To break from the margins of the sports landscape, pro football brought innovation, action, skill, and episodic suspense on "any given Sunday." These factors in turn drove attendance and rising revenues. Team owners were quick to embrace television as a new medium to put the league in front of a national audience. Based on primary documents, David George Surdam provides an economic analysis in telling the business story behind the NFL's rise to popularity. Did the league's vaunted competitive balance in the decade result from its more generous revenue sharing and its reverse-order draft? How did the league combat rival leagues, such as the All-America Football Conference and the American Football League? Although strife between owners and players developed quickly, pro-football fans stayed loyal because the product itself remained so good.
Download or read book Intercepted written by Michael McKnight and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailing from suburban Los Angeles, raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. How Henley, in the space of three short years, went from golden NFL role model to federal inmate is one of the most bizarre stories in the annals of sport-stars-turned-criminal. The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, Intercepted has all the dark corners and unexpected twists of the most sophisticated legal thrillers. Michael McKnight takes us into Henley’s fourth season in the NFL, when he met a Rams cheerleader named Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan—a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. The tale devolves from there, as Henley, Donaho, and McGowan embark on a scheme to transport cocaine that lands Henley in federal prison, where he attempts to arrange a Mafia hit on the sentencing judge and the star witness against him: Donaho. Detailing how one of the best and brightest of our professional athletes destroyed himself through temptation, arrogance, and anger at a justice system that he felt had failed him, Intercepted is also a cautionary tale about American culture, as disturbing as it is impossible to ignore.
Download or read book Rising Stars Volume 1 Born in Fire written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2000-12-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOP COW is proud to bring you issues 1-8 of the critically acclaimed series RISING STARS. This is the first story arc written by J. Michael Straczynski and tells the tale of the beginnings of the Specials. With new cover by MIDNIGHT NATION artist Gary Frank. This collection is the perfect way to revisit the earlier issues of RISING STARS in one sitting or to discover fro the first time the mose realistic superhero epic since Alan Moore's Watchmen.
Download or read book Lamar Jackson written by Jon M. Fishman and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is a rising star in the National Football League (NFL). Readers will devour the life story of this athlete with a golden arm and cheetah-like speed!
Download or read book Ken Griffey Jr written by John Rolfe and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life and career of Ken Griffey, Jr., highlighting his relationship with his baseball player father and also his experiences with the Seattle Mariners.
Download or read book The Top Teams Ever written by Daisy Ross and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles ten of the best teams in football, baseball, basketball, and hockey discussing what set them apart from other teams.
Download or read book Lamar Jackson written by Matt Chandler and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterback Lamar Jackson became the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 2019. It was only his second year in the league. Readers will learn how Jackson overcame a difficult childhood and went on to become one of the NFL's rising stars and the youngest quarterback to ever start in a playoff game!
Download or read book Not for Long written by Robert W. Turner II and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention. The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL, however, is not about the promised land of fame and fortune. Robert W. Turner II draws on his personal experience as a former professional football player as well as interviews with more than 140 current and former NFL players to reveal what it means to be an athlete in the NFL and explain why so many players struggle with life after football. Without guaranteed contracts, the majority of players are forced out of the league after a few seasons. Over three-quarters of retirees experience bankruptcy or financial ruin, two-thirds live with chronic pain, and too many find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Robert W. Turner II argues that the fall from grace of so many players is no accident. The NFL, he contends, powerfully determines their experiences in and out of the league. The labor agreement provides little job security and few health and retirement benefits, and the owners refuse to share power with the players, making change difficult. And the process of becoming an elite football player--from high school to college and through the pros--leaves athletes with few marketable skills and little preparation for their first Sunday off the field. With compassion and objectivity, Not for Long reveals the life and mind of high school, college, and NFL athletes, shedding light on what might best help players transition successfully out of the sport.
Download or read book Gridiron Greats written by Ashley Jude Collie and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles eight outstanding NFL players who had to overcome obstacles on their way to fame and success.
Download or read book Rising Stars written by Glenn Nelson and published by Sports Illustrated Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
