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Heaven is a Playground

Heaven is a Playground more books like this

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In 1974 Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Foster Park. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives, and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything he saw: the on-court flash, the off-court ...

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In Life, First You Kick Ass: Reflections on the 1985 Bears and Wisdom from Da Coach

In Life, First You Kick Ass: Reflections on the 1985 Bears and Wisdom from Da Coach more books like this

by Mike Ditka, Rick Telander

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The 1985 Bears set a standard for success which hasn't been matched in the past quarter century. The Monsters of the Midway did not only demolish the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX, they dominated the NFL that season the way few teams have in the history of the sport. The Bears finished the regular season with a gleaming 15-1 record, ...

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The City Game: From the Garden to the Playgrounds

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by Pete Axthelm, Rick Telander (Introduction by)

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'The best description of basketball played in New York City streets during the sixties and seventies' - Bill Bradley, "The New Yorker". 'Superb ...[Axthelm] combines Knick history, player backgrounds, seasonal anecdotes and court triumphs with another phenomenon - city basketball in the crowded ghettoes of the nation. The areas he focuses on ...

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The Hundred Yard Lie: The Corruption of College Football and What We Can Do to Stop It

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by Rick Telander

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Sports journalist Rick Telander publicly renounced his position as lead college football writer at Sports Illustrated to protest the rampant corruption he so vividly exposes in The Hundred Yard Lie. Now available in paperback.

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The Hundred Yard Lie: The Corruption of College Football more books like this

by Rick Telander

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The lead college football writer for Sports Illustrated examines the myths that surround college football and obscure the reality of the game.

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In the Year of the Bull: Zen, Air, and the Pursuit of Sacred and Profane Hoops

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by Rick Telander

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A portrait of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls. While Michael Jordan still leads the team, the support he had in Horace Grant and B.J. Armstrong is gone. But Toni Kukoc begins to fulfill the passing potential Jerry Krause saw in him; Scottie Pippen has matured into a true superstar; and Dennis Rodman, coach killer and all-around bad boy, bangs the boards ...

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From Red Ink to Roses: The Turbulent Transformation of a Big Ten Program

From Red Ink to Roses: The Turbulent Transformation of a Big Ten Program more books like this

by Rick Telander

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Senior Sports Illustrated writer Rick Telander--author of Heaven Is a Playground and The Hundred-Yard Lie--goes behind the scenes in a Big Ten athletic department to reveal the human fall-out from the necessary political and financial decisions that dominate college sports.

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Like a Rose: A Thoughtful Celebration of Football

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by Rick Telander

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More than 30 years ago, acclaimed author and Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander was drafted out of Northwestern University by a Kansas City Chiefs team filled with future Pro Football Hall of Famers and coached by the legendary Hank Stram. Telander recently found the tattered, spiral-bound journal he kept while in that training camp ...

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Joe Namath, and the other guys more books like this

by Rick Telander

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String Music

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by Rick Telander

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Eleven-year-old Robby Denwood is obsessed with basketball and worships J.J., the NBA superstar of the mighty Thunder. Unfortunately, Robby is himself a terrible player, benched for all of his school team's games. After one hard day on the practice field, Robby decides to run away. When a chance meeting brings him together with his hero, he finds ...

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Dream Season: Northwestern's Miraculous 1995 March to the Rose Bowl more books like this

by Chicago Sun Times Sports, Rick Telander (Illustrator)

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Heaven Is a Playground, Third Edition

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by Rick Telander

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"Heaven Is a Playground" was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a young photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the ...

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Edition: 1st thus Binding: Softcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Fireside Date Published: 1990

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Edition: First American Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon and Schuster Date Published: 1989

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date Published: c1989

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Edition: 8vo. 1st edition. 223 pp, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Date Published: (1989).

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Bison Books Date Published: 2009 ISBN-13: 9780803226784 ISBN: 0803226780

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Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date Published: 1996

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster 1996 New York

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Publisher: S&S; NY; 1996; 1st ed. Date Published: 1996

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Edition: 1st Binding: Hardcover with jacket Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1989

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