Download or read book The Cut written by Wil Mara and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After only his second year with the New York Giants, T. J. Brookman has become the best tight end in professional football. His stats are nothing short of amazing---and what's even more amazing is that he was only a sixth-round pick in the first place. With one season remaining on his rookie contract, his agent, Barry Sturtz, wants to renegotiate and get a more lucrative deal---a common practice among players who have exceeded expectations. But the Giants refuse. They want Brookman to play through his last year, then they'll talk about a new contract. Sturtz, however, doesn't trust them. He wants the deal now—and if he doesn't get it, he's going to instruct T.J. to boycott the team's upcoming training camp. Head coach Alan Gray doesn't flinch at the threat—if T.J. doesn't show, he says, they'll simply bench him. Sturtz thinks it's a bluff---the Giants have had problems with offensive production, and T.J. is their only bright spot. But Gray insists he's serious. No one is more stunned by this development than offensive coordinator Dale Greenwood. Having struggled in polite subordination under Gray's megalomaniacal leadership, the talented Greenwood is concerned that he will now lose his most productive receiver. He suspects Gray's true motivation is that he simply doesn't want to spend the money on a tight end---Gray is a defensive-minded coach with little interest in the offensive side of the ball. What Gray really wants is for everything to stay just the way it is. And to create the necessary leverage, he orders Greenwood to bring in three "camp bodies"---decoys, essentially---to compete for T.J.'s job. Greenwood has no choice but to comply, and he assembles a trio of unsigned players from the bottomless pool of league wannabes. What no one anticipates, however, is that these three recruits have more drive and talent than anyone expected. Delighted, Gray believes Sturtz will soon be at his mercy. But neither Sturtz nor any the three hopefuls are willing to be a part of Alan Gray's plan. Many variables are in play here, both on and off the field. And as any student of the game knows, there are more losers than winners on the last day of preseason---a day known as the Cut.

Download or read book Football in Fiction written by Lee McGowan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, and reviews the book demonstrates a topographic perspective of the field – one that captures and establishes its breadth, depth, and distinctive identity. The book uses and adapts two distinct reading models of abstraction, in conjunction with closer textual analyses. Together they assist in realising a set of demonstrable conventions, outline a taxonomy of fictive types, establish the genre’s current state of play, and advance the football novel as a form with its own literary history and traditions. This book is a valuable resource for those studying and researching in the areas of the social and cultural aspects of football, sports fiction, sports writing, creative writing, and literary and genre studies. Furthermore, related industry professionals will find this a fascinating read, particularly football writers, fans of the sport, and those interested in sports history and cultural phenomena.

Download or read book QB 1 written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author of TRAVEL TEAM, HEAT, and MILLION-DOLLAR THROW comes a cheer-worthy, family-friendly football novel set amid the Friday Night Lights world of Texas high school football Jake Cullen is a freshman quarterback playing high school football in Texas, the high-pressure land of Friday Night Lights. He is also the brother of Wyatt Cullen, who quarterbacked his team to the Texas State Championship last season--not to mention the son of former NFL quarterback and local legend, Troy Cullen. To be a Cullen in Texas is to be football royalty . . . which leaves 14-year-old Jake in a Texas-sized shadow. Being a good teammate comes naturally to Jake; being a winner and a celebrity does not. Jake may be a Cullen, and he may play quarterback, but he is not his brother or his father. He's just like every other kid: fighting for every ounce of respect, awkward around a pretty girl, in awe of his famous family, and desparate to simultaneously blend in and cast his own shadow. Inspired by the real-life Manning family of quarterbacks and set amid the football-crazy culture of Texas, QB 1 is a coming-of-age story perfect for the fan of MILLION-DOLLAR THROW and HEAT.

Download or read book The Cut written by Wil Mara and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But the Giants refuse. They want Brookman to play through his last year, "then" they'll talk about a new contract. Sturtz, however, doesn't trust them.

Download or read book Covering Kendall written by Julie Brannagh and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpts from six e-book oriignals published by Avon Impulse.

Download or read book North Dallas Forty written by Peter Gent and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller: The “powerful novel” about the hidden side of pro football, written by a former NFL player (Newsweek). On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent’s classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the pro game, chronicling eight days in the life of Phil Elliott, an aging receiver for the Texas team. Running on a mixture of painkillers and cortisone as he tries to keep his fading legs strong, Elliott tries to get every ounce of pleasure out of his last days of glory, living the life of sex, drugs, and football. Adapted for the screen in 1979, this novel, written by ex-Dallas Cowboy Peter Gent, is widely considered the best football novel of all time.

Download or read book Where Passion Lives The Spirit of College Football written by Dean Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tuesday Night Football written by Alex Karras and published by . This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brotherhood of the Pigskin written by Wade Lindenberger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, "Buckeye Bob" DiGiorgio ponders how to pick the best fantasy football team, on a mission to win the coveted trophy in the Bernard I. Gregory Fantasy Football League. But endless reading, hours of deep thought, and even computer models never seem to pay off. Until one year, when he vows to win it all with a new strategy. Buckeye Bob's buddies, a colorful cast of characters including Ladies' Man, the Commish, Exacta, and Slowhand, watch as Buckeye Bob puts together an unthinkable lineup of rundown veterans led by an unproven rookie quarterback. As each week goes by, however, Buckeye Bob's friends begin to realize that perhaps they are witnessing a fantasy football feat that none of them ever dreamed possible. Against all odds, Buckeye Bob is winning. But his friends won't surrender the trophy without a fight. Join Buckeye Bob and the entire cast as they balance friendship and manly rituals with the quest for victory in Brotherhood of the Pigskin: A Fantasy Football Novel.

Download or read book On Any Given Sunday written by Pat Toomay and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pat Toomay has mixed fact and fiction to produce a story that will make every armchair quarterback laugh and wince—and worry at his exposition of “the game’s” most insidious reality: the prospect — on any given Sunday—of a fix.” —John Seigenthaler, USA Today “Toomay, for many years a lineman with the Cowboys and the Raiders, gives a sinister turn to the old saw that ‘on any given Sunday, one team can beat another’. . . . He writes knowledgeably about football: its strategy, the pain, the respect and hatred between the men in the trenches.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Tuesday Night Football written by Alex Karras and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you don't see off camera before, during, and after the televising of a professional football game.

Download or read book Dream Team written by Alan Gibbons and published by Barrington Stoke. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "East End United are struggling to make this season work. Cairo is their best shot but as Captain he just can't seem to make the team work together. When Coach Ayo suggests heading to the library for some historical research the boys think he's having a laugh but the secret to a great team might just lie in the past. Fabulous football story featuring facts about the best from past to present.

Download or read book Fictional Representations of English Football and Fan Cultures written by Cyprian Piskurek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the 'Taylor Report'. A direct response to the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster and growing concerns of hooliganism, the 'Taylor Report' suggested a number of measures for stricter regulation of fan crowds. In consequence, stadiums in the top divisions were turned into all-seated venues and were put under CCTV surveillance. The implementation of these measures reduced violent incidents drastically, but it also led to an unparalleled increase in ticket prices, which in turn significantly altered the demographics of the crowd. This development, which also enabled football's entry into other mainstream cultural forms, changed the game decisively. Piskurek traces patterns across prose and film to detect how these fictions have responded to the changed circumstances of post-Taylor football. Lending a cultural lens to these political changes, this book is pioneering in its analysis of football fiction as a whole, offering a fresh perspective to a range of scholars and students interested in cultural studies, sociology, leisure and politics.

Download or read book Football Dreams written by David Guy and published by Playboy Enterprises. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan enters the posh and private Arnold Academy with hopes of proving himself at something.

Download or read book Football Genius with Bonus Material written by Tim Green and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a limited time, the "New York Times" bestselling "Football Genius" by former NFL star player Tim Green is available for FREE. This special promo ebook includes an excerpt of "Deep Zone," the companion to "Football Genius, " as well as excerpts of "Football Hero, Football Champ, " and "The Big Time" as well as each of the Baseball Great novels ("Baseball Great, Rivals," and" Best of the Best"). In addition, Tim has written a piece exclusively for the promo ebook about his first game in the NFL; it's not to be missed! Troy White can predict any football play before it happens. And when his single mom gets a job with the Atlanta Falcons, Troy knows it's his big chance to help them out of their slump--and finally prove his football genius. But unless Troy can convince star linebacker Seth Halloway that he's telling the truth, the Falcons' championship--and Troy's mom's job--are in serious jeopardy.

Download or read book Idols and Underdogs written by Shawn Stein and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 11 stories--one from each country in the South American World Cup qualifying group, plus Mexico (following a precedent set by the Copa America)--includes some of the most prestigious names in Latin American literature. A hymn to the juego benito, these stories demonstrate just how connected South American soccer is to its roots in backstreets, barrios and favelas. Including Juan Villoro (Mexico), Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia), Ricardo Silva Romero (Colombia), Sérgio Sant'Anna (Brazil), Sergio Galarza (Peru), Selva Almada (Argentina), Carlos Abin (Uruguay), Roberto Fuentes (Chile), Miguel Hidalgo Prince (Venezuela), José Hidalgo Pallares (Ecuador), and Javier Viveros (Paraguay), this is a Who's Who of Latin male fiction. Also contains author interviews, charting personal views on the sport and its intersections with politics, literature and wider culture.

Download or read book The Big Time written by Tim Green and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things couldn't be going better for Troy White. The Atlanta Falcons' football genius is at the top of his game, helping the team get to the playoffs. Agents and lawyers are knocking on his door with big-money offers for the upcoming season. And his own football team has just won the Georgia State Championship! Troy's celebrating with his friends at linebacker Seth Halloway's mansion when another lawyer comes knocking—and he says, "I think I'm your father." In that instant, Troy's life is changed. Powerfully charged from start to finish, this is an amazing portrayal of Troy's struggle to make his lifetime dreams of being with his father come true. Filled with page-turning excitement as a high-stakes deal increases the clash of family tension, The Big Time is an unforgettable experience.