Fighting Fans

Fighting Fans

Author: Eric Dunning

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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This volume considers soccer hooliganism in 14 countries and shows that, despite its tendencies to be associated with English culture, it has long been a social problem worldwide.


Fighting Game Esports

Fighting Game Esports

Author: Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Publisher: Wide World of Esports

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 154357355X

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"Explores the history, format, training, and controversies involved in modern fighting game esport tournaments"--


Football Fans Around the World

Football Fans Around the World

Author: Sean Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1317997867

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This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national. The diverse geographical and cultural array of contributions to this volume highlights not only the variety of how fans express themselves, but their commonalities as well. The collection brings together scholars of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa to present a global picture of fan culture. The collection shows that while every group of fans around the world has its own characteristics, the role of a football fan is laced with commonalities, irrespective of geography or culture. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.


Rocky Lives!

Rocky Lives!

Author: David E. Finger

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 1612343090

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Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and--perhaps even more important--the judges. Sylvester Stallone mined that emotion through his long series of Rocky films. Rocky is fiction, however. The men in Rocky Lives! are real. David E. Finger, a writer for top boxing website FightNews.com, presents chronologically seventy-five heavyweight boxing upsets of the 1990s. Some involve boxers still fighting today; others contain a cautionary tale of once-great boxers chasing one last payday. There are also the early-round disasters of wannabes and athletes who switched to boxing in midstream. From the Tyson-Douglas, Foreman-Moorer, and Lewis-McCall top-dollar fights to low-level curiosities like former New York Jet Mark Gastineau getting embarrassed or Eric "Butterbean" Esch taking to the ring, David Finger presents the best heavyweight upsets the 1990s have to offer. You'll read about crooked promoters drugging opponents, a convicted felon hoping victory in the ring will win him leniency, and a forty-five-year-old preacher looking to exorcise a two-decade-old demon. Rocky Lives! brings all the knockouts and slugfests right into your home.


Yoshi

Yoshi

Author: Michael Hayes

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2022-09-26

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1665571802

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Yoshi is an exciting young adult fantasy novel about a young woman who has spent her life training to become a Sakura Ninja. On the day of her transition from tribal member to full-fledged ninja, Yoshi is forced to part ways with her best friend from training, Yakishu, who is leaving on a secret mission. Their parting is a bitter one, as Yoshi is hurt that Yakishu has kept a secret from her. Yoshi is soon sent out on her own mission to find a ninja known as the Black Dragon, and this journey leads her down a dark path that will reunite her with Yakishu in a way she could have never foreseen.