The Armchair Quarterback Playbook
The Armchair Quarterback Playbook

Author: Christopher Lee Barish

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2011-05-27

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1452108846

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Every weekend from August through January, 25 million Americans plop into their Lay-Z-Boys, crack open a beer, and watch football on television. At last, here is an illustrated book that celebrates their pastime and codifies their culture of extreme devotion like no other. The Armchair Quarterback Playbook is both hilarious and authentic, and is designed like a real football playbook—complete with modified X and O diagrams. Everything a stay-at-home fan needs to know is here: how to redirect an interfering spouse ("The Listen and Respond Fake"), methods for keeping children at bay ("Intentional Grounding), equipment and etiquette tips, game food recipes, armchair quarterback vernacular, and more. Written by a certified "AQ," this is the perfect book for the football fanatic.

The Football Girl
The Football Girl

Author: Thatcher Heldring

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0375987142

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For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book

America in the Sixties
America in the Sixties

Author: John Robert Greene

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0815651333

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In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the clichés and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan—bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser-known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.

The Magic of Interactive Entertainment
The Magic of Interactive Entertainment

Author: Mike Morrison

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780672305900

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This book is a complete survey of the field of interactive entertainment, packed with product reviews and inside information from product developers from the hottest companies in the industry. The CD contains evaluation copies of some of the hottest PC and Mac games in the industry, as well as test-drive samples of multimedia products and shareware games.

Football and Manliness
Football and Manliness

Author: Thomas P. Oates

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-03-30

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0252099486

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Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change, reshaping ideas about manliness to respond to new urgencies on and beyond the gridiron. Thomas P. Oates uses feminist theory to break down the dynamic cultural politics shaping, and shaped by, today's NFL. As he shows, the league's wildly popular product provides an arena for media producers to work out and recalibrate the anxieties, contradictions, and challenges that characterize contemporary masculinity. Oates draws from a range of pop culture narratives to map the complex set of theories about gender and race and to reveal a league and fan base in flux. Though longing for a past dominated by white masculinity, the mediated NFL also subtly aligns with a new economic reality that demands it cope with the shifting relations of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Indeed, pro football crafts new meanings of each by its canny mobilization of historic ideological processes.

Why Women Buy
Why Women Buy

Author: Dawn Jones

Publisher: Made For Success Publishing

Published: 2017-04

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1613398778

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Women drive 80% of consumer spending. The most powerful determining factor of how we see the world is GENDER. In today's business market, women hold buying power of $4.4 trillion dollars, in the U.S. alone. Mastering the skill to tap into the world’s largest buying segment will give you the competitive advantage you need. Dawn Jones shares 7 techniques for bridging the gap and capturing more business. Through scientific research, learn how women differ from men in the buying process.Overcome the fear of sales.Learn to operate with integrity.Learn to ask great questions.Integrate 4 communication styles.Learn to sell to 7 personality types.Master the four stages of competency. Why Women Buy will equip you to stay ahead of your competition and master the art of selling to half the population.

Sports Talk
Sports Talk

Author: Colin McNairn

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017-02-24

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1525501542

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It’s game on in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions, sayings and images that populate our everyday language! That’s the challenge that this book takes on, using a playbook for each sport. It kicks off with an opening run through the game of football, then it’s out of the gate with wire-to-wire coverage of horse racing. After going for the fences and covering all the bases in the sport of baseball, the ball is kept rolling, despite many a sticky wicket, through the long-running game of cricket. A blow-by-blow account of the sweet science of boxing is followed by play-by-play accounts of 35 more sports that have been added to the roster. At the finish line, the top three sports, are scored on their relative contributions to everyday language, and declared win, place and show. The discussion is enlivened by lots of sports humour and anecdotes along with quotations from sports personalities some of which may sound quite familiar, much like déjà vu all over again.

Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough

Author: Mr. Dan Jenkins

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2015-03-03

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0306824353

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"Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." -- Don Imus Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written. The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New York Giants, whose team has come to Los Angeles for an epic duel with the despised "dog-ass" Jets in the Super Bowl. But Billy Clyde is faced with a dual challenge: not only must he try to run over a bunch of malevolents incarnate, but he has also been commissioned by a New York book publisher to keep a journal of the events leading up to, including, and following the game. Infused with Dan Jenkins's characteristic joie de vivre and replete with cigarettes, whiskey, and wild women, Semi-Tough is an uproarious romp through a lost era of professional sports that will have any armchair quarterback falling out of his or her recliner in hysterics on a semi-regular basis.

Russell Wilson
Russell Wilson

Author: David Aretha

Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc

Published: 2019-12-01

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 1438195516

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Despite his success playing college football at the University of Wisconsin, many people did not think Russell Wilson could make it in the NFL as a quarterback. With his 5′11″ frame, many were concerned he wouldn't be tall enough to see over linemen and consistently move his team down the field. What he lacked in height, however, he made up for in intelligence and character—traits he would use to lead the Seattle Seahawks to their very first Super Bowl victory. Russell Wilson is a compelling profile of one of football's best and brightest quarterbacks. This lively biography provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at Wilson's personality, life, and career.