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Author: Peter F. Burns
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1555537774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow Jim Calhoun made the University of Connecticut a basketball powerhouse and became the greatest coach of his generation
Author: Travis Vogan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0252097866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce a shoestring operation built on plywood sets and Australian rules football, ESPN has evolved into a media colossus. A genius for cross-promotion and its near-mystical rapport with its viewers empower the network to set agendas and create superstars, to curate sports history even as it mainstreams the latest cultural trends. Travis Vogan teams archival research and interviews with an all-star cast to pen the definitive account of how ESPN turned X's and O's into billions of $$$. Vogan's institutional and cultural history focuses on the network since 1998, the year it launched a high-motor effort to craft its brand and grow audiences across media platforms. As he shows, innovative properties like SportsCentury, ESPN The Magazine, and 30 for 30 built the network's cultural caché. This credibility, in turn, propelled ESPN's transformation into an entity that lapped its run-of-the-mill competitors and helped fulfill its self-proclaimed status as the "Worldwide Leader in Sports." Ambitious and long overdue, ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire offers an inside look at how the network changed an industry and reshaped the very way we live as sports fans.
Author: Brian Tuohy
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1627310878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this long-anticipated sequel to his jarring takedown of professional sports, The Fix Is In, internationally recognized game fixing expert and scholarly authority Brian Tuohy further reveals the truths all sports fans need to know. Based on dedicated research and previously unreleased FBI files, each chapter exposes sports in a manner none of the major leagues’ broadcast partners would dare attempt. No sport or league is spared as Tuohy rips through not only the likes of the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NASCAR, but also the PGA, UFC, eSports, horse racing, boxing, and both NCAA football and basketball. Along the way, championships are revealed as frauds, referees are exposed as accomplices, and legends are demolished. No sports fans should watch another game until they read this book and understand what truly is being presented as “pure” in America’s professional sports leagues.
Author: William M. Simons
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-06-08
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0786453311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Essays included employ the national pastime to comment on issues transcending the playing field, and are divided into six sections: "Cultural Perspectives on the Game," "Literary Baseball," "Baseball at the Movies," "Minority Standard Bearers," "New Leagues," and "The Business of Baseball."
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-06-13
Total Pages: 1001
ISBN-13: 0393073491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Author: Jennifer Ring
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0252032829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revealing look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime
Author: Ben Bradlee Jr.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 0316084484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for. Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him -- and traveled a long way himself, as Ben Bradlee, Jr.'s grand biography reveals. Born in 1918 in San Diego, Ted would spend most of his life disguising his Mexican heritage. During his 22 years with the Boston Red Sox, Williams electrified crowds across America -- and shocked them, too: His notorious clashes with the press and fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a God in the batter's box, he was profoundly human once he stepped away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been straightforward for Ted Williams, life was not. The Kid is biography of the highest literary order, a thrilling and honest account of a legend in all his glory and human complexity. In his final at-bat, Williams hit a home run. Bradlee's marvelous book clears the fences, too.
Author: Sara Gilbert
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0756538556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will help you learn how to find ideas and then find supporting evidence to write clearly about those ideas. It contains brainstorming and training activities to sharpen your writing skills. Tips and advice from news writers and examples from their own work will also help you.
Author: Peter Handrinos
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-30
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1612345611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost baseball traditions are wonderful. But not all of them. The games most basic elements have often been misrepresented, misunderstood, and misremembered through the years. All along, fiction has coexisted with fact, hyperbole has mixed with history, and exaggeration has been mistaken for explanation. Meanwhile, baseballs yen for tradition has left many fans and even baseball commentators unduly attached to stale ways of thinking. Peter Handrinos breaks from the past and provides an entertaining antidote to its outmoded ideas and excessive nostalgia.
Author: Richard Worth
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780761445418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores both sides of the ongoing, temper-raising controversies that surround gambling.
