HOOPS
HOOPS

Author: Thomas Smythe

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1682133907

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Following a last play emotional defeat in the Iowa state football playoffs, Eric Lewis and his friends waste no time moving into basketball. The ‘Hoops’ season is promising as three starters return. Eric and his good friend Luke will add youth and talent to the already competitive team. The Comets are defending league champions and advanced to the second round of last years state tournament. This squad has the potential to go even deeper into the playoffs. Coach Edwards is in his third year as head coach and has an Iowa State Championship in his resume. “I like this team. If we can focus consistently the sky’s the limit.” Spirit’s are high and the Crater High faithful are ready to follow their boys to new heights. There won’t be much time, after the long football season, to get ready for the opener, but the Comet athletes have now tasted success and feel ready for the challenge’s that lie ahead. As sophomores Eric and his best friend and new roommate, Cezar Simion, find themselves enjoying together the thrill of victory, and hope to put an early end to the agony of defeat, they endured in the semifinal loss that ended an 11-2 football season. The challenge is to repeat as Valley Canyon League champions and to make a statement in the state tournament; which would be; The Crater Comets are here to stay in every sport.

The Great Book of Denver Sports Lists
The Great Book of Denver Sports Lists

Author: Irv Brown

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0786741686

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Sports talk in America has evolved from small-time barroom banter into a major media smorgasbord that runs 24/7 on TV and radio. With hundreds of billions of dollars generated annually by pro and college teams in major markets nationwide, sports fans across the country are more dedicated than ever to their teams. And when it comes to sports talk -- especially all-sports radio -- it's all about entertainment, information, prognostication, analysis, rankings, and endless discussion. Prominent sports-media figures in each of the three target cities -- Cleveland, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. -- engage in this phenomenon with a compilation of sports lists sure to delight as well as stir up debate within these already-buzzing sports communities. List topics include: What were the most lopsided trades in local sports history? Who were the most overrated athletes to play in our town? What local athlete had the best appearance in TV or film? What was the most heartbreaking loss in local sports history? What was the greatest single play in local sports history? Who are our team's most hated rivals? Plus dozens of "guest" lists contributed by famous local sports and entertainment celebrities. Denver has franchises in each of the major pro sports -- the Broncos (NFL), the Avalanche (NHL), the Rockies (MLB), and the Nuggets (NBA). And no one knows Denver sports better than Irv Brown and Joe Williams.

Black Enterprise
Black Enterprise

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.

Race, Sport and Politics
Race, Sport and Politics

Author: Ben Carrington

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1849204292

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Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport′s role in ′the making of race′, the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows how, during the first decades of the twentieth century, the idea of ′the natural black athlete′ was invented in order to make sense of and curtail the political impact and cultural achievements of black sportswomen and men. More recently, ′the black athlete′ as sign has become a highly commodified object within contemporary hyper-commercialized sports-media culture thus limiting the transformative potential of critically conscious black athleticism to re-imagine what it means to be both black and human in the twenty-first century. Race, Sport and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology of culture and sport, the sociology of race and diaspora studies, postcolonial theory, cultural theory and cultural studies.

Everything Sports
Everything Sports

Author: Eric Zweig

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1426323336

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Spectacular Sports -- What is a Sport? -- Go for the gold -- Top Tourneys -- Who Plays What? -- A Photographic Diagram: Sports Balls- The Inside Scoop -- Dribble, Drive, Hustle -- Hoops Game -- Take Me Out to the Ball Game -- One "Cool" Game -- Football, American Style -- A Photo Gallery: Nicely Done! -- A World of Sports -- We Are the Champions -- The Olympics -- Living on the Edge -- Hall of Fame -- Sports Comparisons: You vs. the Pros -- Sports Fun -- Get in the game! -- Hey, Ref! -- Tools of the Trade -- Fact vs. Myth -- Photo Finish: Behind the Shot with Shalise Manza Young.