The young man at the centre of this 'compelling book' ("The Economist") will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When Michael Lewis introduces him to the reader, he is one of thirteen children by a crack-addicted mother; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday or any of the things a ...
Are you one of the millions of people across America are intrigued by professional football -- and all types and levels of football? Perhaps you have a friends or a number of friends who have made the football season a ritual, from the last weekend in August until Super Bowl Sunday at the end of January. To be a part of that experience, you need ...
Year after year, Sunday afternoons and Monday nights during the NFL season have belonged to men. While they cheer and argue play calls, the women in their lives are relegated to beer and chip detail. It's time for these women to join the action, and Holly Robinson Peete, star of "21 Jump Street," "For Your Love," and "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper," and ...
For eight years - the years of riots on Channel ferries, street-fighting outside Britain's football grounds, and the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters - Bill Buford, an American, travelled with football hooligans up and down Britain, and to Italy, Turkey, Greece and Germany. He attended a National Front disco and witnessed the robbing of a pub. He ...
H.G. Bissinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, writes a stinging critique of small-town high school football. Zeroing in on Odessa, a small West Texas city, he profiles a season (1988) in the life of the Permian High School Panthers--the team that embodies the failing hopes and dreams of the citizens of a desperate place, formerly an oil ...
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Junction Boys" comes this amazing, inspirational story of a group of orphans and the man who created one of the greatest football teams Texas has ever known. 16-page b&w photo insert.
Using the same meticulous reporting and sweeping narrative style employed in "First in His Class", his classic biography of Bill Clinton, Maraniss separates myth from reality and wondrously recaptures Vince Lombardi's life and times. "When Pride Still Mattered" is the quintessential story of the American family: how Vince Lombardi, the son of an ...
An epic story of how the Carlisle Indians battled the West Point Cadets, thisriveting tale of football brings together three of the most legendary figuresever to play the game: Carlisle head coach Pop Warner, Jim Thorpe, and DwightEisenhower.
A no-holds-barred autobiography from football's wildest renegade, Snake is "one of the few football memoirs to show the worst of what happens in th e locker rooms, training camps, the post-curfew bars and secret motel rooms of NFL players".--San Francisco Chronicle. 16-page photo insert.
In this surprising and unprecedented dissection of college footballs secret season, author Feldman reveals a blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to an event that can make or break a college football teams season--National Signing Day.
Art Donovan, the former All-Pro lineman with the Baltimore Colts, recounts the days when football was played by real men, not the contemporary players with their workout videos and stock portfolios. A bright, witty assessment of football in the 1950s.
The bestselling story of life in the football-driven town of Odessa, Texas, explores how the town's passion for the team inspires--and sometimes shatters--the young men who wear the Panther uniform. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tim McGraw, Derek Luke, and Jay Hernandez.
The author brings readers behind the scenes of one of the great sports stories of all time--the De Salle High School football team of Concord, California, which won an extraordinary number of consecutive victories under coach Bob Ladouceur during a thirteen-year winning streak, in an updated study following the team through its 2004 season. Reprint
The author of A GOOD WALK SPOILED follows the Army and Navy American Football teams through a single season, taking us into the locker rooms, onto the playing fields and inside the lives and personalities of the players and coaches. The book culminates in an account of the team's dramatic December face-off. Originally published in 1997.
Few experiences are more rewarding than coaching a youth football team. Your journey through the season will be packed with moments that make you smile and that you and your players will remember for the rest of your lives. But what if you've never coached before? No worries! "Coaching Football For Dummies" is the fun and easy way to tackle the ...
"Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill ...
This is the ultimate toolkit for youth football coaches. With its great emphasis on position on offense, defense, and special teams, football is the most complicated and challenging youth sport to coach. "Youth Football Skills and Drills" gives you the hands-on, step-by-step guidance to instruct young players and prepare them for the season. It ...
Now in paperback: the definitive, fully illustrated instructional for coaches, parents, and young athletes involved in football from junior leagues through highschool and college teams. Prepared and authorized by the National Football League with position-by-position techniques, drills for offense, defense, and special teams. Photographs and ...
When Barry Switzer stepped down as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners last year, he was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Considered by the NCAA as the outspoken outlaw of college football, Switzer brought a succession of All-Americans, Heisman Trophy winners, and three National Championships to his beloved school before being ...
From high school games to the NFL, this guide features the basics of offense and defense, players, rules, strategies, and even what to wear. New coverage for this edition includes how the draft works, new technology on the field, and XFL, arena league, expansion teams, and NFL Europe.
America's favorite sport has a serious problem. Many of the NFL's top players--including Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Merril Hoge, Ted Johnson, Al Toon, and Wayne Chrebet--have had their careers ended by head injuries. But few realize that most NFL players a
The bestselling author "Black Hawk Down" writes the remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants--considered by many to be the greatest football game ever played.
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