Download or read book Football A Love Story written by Emory Hunt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 interviews from current/former coaches, players, personnel execs, analyst and entertainers on their love for the game of football

Download or read book The Last First Game written by Gina Azzi and published by Three Cities Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cade Wilkins is a god on Astor University’s campus. I’m a new arrival, a nobody. He’s a wildly popular, superstar football player. I’m a medical intern, unsure if I even want to practice medicine. Imagine my surprise when the hot jock with thundercloud eyes and unrivaled confidence pursues me. But, from our first encounter, I’m smitten. Our connection is heady and intense. Effortless and real. It isn’t long until we’re the hottest item on campus. As our whirlwind romance heats up, the future I envisioned goes up in flames. A tackle gone sideways. A diagnosis no one saw coming. A party that destroys everything. Cade and I were never meant to be. But I can’t give up on us. Even if he already has.

Download or read book Hero of the Underground written by Jason Peter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wasn’t afraid of death. How could I be? I lived under death’s shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined in dollar amounts, but in the amounts your body can withstand without experiencing a seizure or respiratory failure. Yet at the end of every binge, every night of lining up six, seven, eight crack pipes and hitting them one after the other bam! bam! bam! every night of smoking and snorting bag after bag of heroin . . . after all of that, when you still wake up to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you start to think that instead of dying, maybe your punishment is to live---to be stuck in this purgatory of self-abuse and misery for an eternity. Sometimes you start to think that death would come as a blessed relief. Toward the end, I found myself contemplating death again. Only this time I wasn’t going to leave it to chance. I was going to buy a gun, load the thing, place the barrel in my mouth, and blow my fucking brains out. I sat on my parents’ sofa as I pondered this. All I needed was a gun. And then all-- of my problems-- would be solved.

Download or read book Bigger Than the Game written by Michael Weinreb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing look at the year when American athletics went corporate, villains replaced heroes, and sports stars became superstars. Greed and excess defined the 1980s, and the sports world was no exception. Shifting from the love of the game to the love of money, athletes made the transition from representing honor and humility to becoming brash and branded. Capturing the stories of headliners who capitalized on this trend, Bigger Than the Game charts the rise (and sometimes spectacular fall) of four athletes over the span of one of the most dramatic eras in sports. Meticulously researched, with stirring, you-are-there reporting, Bigger Than the Game assembles a cast that includes Jim McMahon, who took the Chicago Bears to Super Bowl glory despite his penchant for partying and his aversion to following the game plan; Brian Boswoth, the university of Oklahoma linebacker who mugged for the cameras while calling the NCAA a communist organization; Bo Jackson, who pursued promising careers in both pro football and baseball; and Len Bias, poised to ensure the Boston Celtics' dominance but died of a cocaine overdose just one day after the draft. Also packed with portraits of folk heroes such as "Refrigerator" Perry and Michael Jordan, Bigger Than the Game offers a riveting ride for every sports fan.

Download or read book An American Caddie in St Andrews written by Oliver Horovitz and published by Avery. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A caddie since he was twelve and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decides to spend his gap year, pre Harvard, in St. Andrews: a town with the U.K.'s highest number of pubs per capita and home to the Old Course, golf's most famous eighteen holes, where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program. Initially, the notoriously brusque veteran caddies treat Ollie like a pest. But after a year of waking up at 4:30 A.M. every morning and looping two rounds a day, Ollie earns their grudging respect. A charming coming-of-age memoir.

Download or read book ACC Basketball written by J. Samuel Walker and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972. Walker vividly re-creates the action of nail-biting games and the tensions of bitter recruiting battles without losing sight of the central off-court questions the league wrestled with during these two decades. As basketball became the ACC's foremost attraction, conference administrators sought to field winning teams while improving academic programs and preserving academic integrity. The ACC also adapted gradually to changes in the postwar South, including, most prominently, the struggle for racial justice during the 1960s. ACC Basketball is a lively, entertaining account of coaches' flair (and antics), players' artistry, a major point-shaving scandal, and the gradually more evenly matched struggle for dominance in one of college basketball's strongest conferences.

Download or read book Hex You written by P. C. Cast and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin sisters, Mercy and Hunter are witches, direct descendants of the Goode family, the founders of their town. After the murder of their mother at the hands of a foul demon, they have become the protectors of the Gates to different underworlds--ancient portals between their world and realms where mythology rules and the darkest of creatures exist. Mercy and Khenti are trapped in the Ancient Egyptian Underworld and need Hunter’s help to escape. But while Hunter searches for a way to save them, other evil threatens Goodeville. Amphitrite is still looming–and she wants vengeance against Hunter. With the gates rapidly weakening, Amphitrite lures out a deadly creature and sets it free on the residents of Goodeville. It will take everything in Mercy and Hunter’s power to stop the goddess and seal the gates once and for all.

Download or read book The Classic Television Reference written by Hank Moore and published by Skyward Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing personal interviews and photographs of classic television stars such as Lucille Ball, Ed Sullivan, Dick Clark, Tim Conway, Ed McMahon, Buddy Ebson, Jack Lord, Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Don Knotts, Sonny and Cher, Johnny Cash, Burg Reynolds, Barbara Walters, Bill Bixby, Jack Klugmann, Merv Griffin, Jim Nabors, Robert Young, Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), and includes sports stars such as Bud Wilkinson, Chris Schankel and others, THE CLASSIC TELEVISION REFERENCE is a delightful stroll down Memory Lane and a behind-the-scenes look at Classic TV shows, Classic TV stars and the business behind them.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-09-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Download or read book Fourth and Long written by John U. Bacon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of the sport's old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs--Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and Northwestern--and captured the oldest, biggest, most storied league, the Big Ten, at its tipping point.--Back cover.

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Download or read book The Great Canadian Outbreaks written by Nevio Cimolai and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do a rowing coach, lawyer, First Nation’s aboriginal, hockey manager, business woman, and medical resident have in common? – The Great Canadian Outbreaks How many infectious outbreaks will you experience in a lifetime? How do Canadians behave during an outbreak, and how do they respond thereafter? The Great Canadian Outbreaks presents ten short stories each depicting a unique infectious outbreak from across Canada in various historic times. These fictional vignettes capture the essence of factual events as diverse as the social fabric of our country. Each story is followed by a lay description of the pertinent science and epidemiology in these outbreak scenarios. We live in a microbial world where there is ample opportunity for human infection. If our flavour as a nation can be captured by great Canadian bacon or curling or wheat or beer or hockey, what would we be without The Great Canadian Outbreaks?

Download or read book The End of College Football written by Nathan Kalman-Lamb and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country's most prominent college football teams, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and exploitation. Through the stories of those who lived it, the authors examine the ways in which college football must be understood as a site of harm, revealing how players are systematically denied the economic value they produce for universities and offered only a devalued education in return. By illuminating the plantation dynamics that make college football a particularly racialized form of exploitation, the book makes legible the forms of physical sacrifice that are required, the ultimate cost in health and well-being, and the coercion that drives players into the sport and compels them to endure such abusive conditions.

Download or read book Tough Stuff written by Sam Huff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the real story of football's glory days, filled with down-and-dirty anecdotes by a man who tells it tough, straight, and true. Vintage gridiron bio: hard, colorful, and driving.--Kirkus Reviews. Martin's.

Download or read book The Final Game written by P.S. Harper and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Final Game will win your heart over to superstar athlete, Jaxon Bull and his support system. With P.S. Harper’s vivid descriptions, he allows you to walk hand in hand alongside the life journey of college football’s most dominant and decorated athlete ever. As his story unfolds, you feel and experience Jaxon’s amazing, godly impact on others. After suffering an injury in his final college football game, Jaxon reminisces about his family and friends’ influence on his life. Watching him lie helplessly on the ground, his teammates and loved ones find their faith tested and revealed.