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Author: Elizabeth Burton
Publisher: Branden Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0828319669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the help of his fairy godfather Michael Jordan, Cinderfella regrets his mistreatment of his stepbrothers and gets to attend and win the big Slam Dunk Contest.
Author: Elizabeth Burton
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Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9780828323192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the help of his fairy godfather Michael Jordan, Cinderfella regrets his mistreatment of his stepbrothers and gets to attend and win the big Slam Dunk Contest.
Author: Elizabeth Burton
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Published: 1994-03-01
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ISBN-13: 9780613931700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the help of his fairy godfather Michael Jordan, Cinderfella regrets his mistreatment of his stepbrothers and gets to attend and win the big Slam Dunk Contest.
Author: Anton Purcell
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781590330364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contemporary family is being distracted, disturbed and distraught by societal pressures from every direction. The nuclear family concept, believed crucial to child rearing, is becoming passé according to census data. Or has the wave of disruption to families crested? It is hoped that this bibliography will serve as a useful tool to researchers seeking further information on families and the pressures being exerted upon them in the 21st century.
Author: Ron Snyder
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-06-17
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1476685614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the biggest draws on the sports calendar, the NCAA men's basketball tournament routinely thrills fans with "bracket buster" upsets. From Loyola Marymount's emotional 1990 run following the death of team leader Hank Gathers to UMBC in 2018 becoming the first 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed, March Madness holds the sporting world captive for a few weeks each year and changes the lives of players. Drawing on dozens of original interviews, this book chronicles the tournament's many underdog tournament runs, with insights into the teams beyond their exploits on the hardwood.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 2166
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Published: 2006
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ISBN-13: 9780835248518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cheryl Cooky
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0813592062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn just a few decades, sport has undergone a radical gender transformation. However, Cheryl Cooky and Michael A. Messner suggest that the progress toward gender equity in sports is far from complete. The continuing barriers to full and equal participation for young people, the far lower pay for most elite-level women athletes, and the continuing dearth of fair and equal media coverage all underline how much still has yet to change before we see gender equality in sports. The chapters in No Slam Dunk show that is this not simply a story of an “unfinished revolution.” Rather, they contend, it is simplistic optimism to assume that we are currently nearing the conclusion of a story of linear progress that ends with a certain future of equality and justice. This book provides important theoretical and empirical insights into the contemporary world of sports to help explain the unevenness of social change and how, despite significant progress, gender equality in sports has been “No Slam Dunk.”
Author: Todd Davis
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1609173163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball’s movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of language, the body, and human connectedness; how their love of the sport made a difference in the creation of their poems and in the lives they live beyond the margins. Walt Whitman saw the origins of poetry as communal, oral myth making. The same could be said of basketball, which is the beating heart of so many neighborhoods and communities in this country and around the world. On the court and on the page, this “poetry in motion” can be a force of change and inspiration, leaving devoted fans wonderstruck.
Author: Michael Litos
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1402241585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe NCAA tournament has always been an enormous spotlight for the underdog. Bracket-clenching fans root for teams from smaller schools to upset the elite squads and score an unexpected win on their tournament sheet...if they picked them, that is. And normally that's all the fans expect-one or two incredible upsets. But in 2006, the underdogs broke through... Cinderella is an inside look at the NCAA's mid-major basketball programs, which fight for one shot to battle the elite teams for the national championship. The rise of mid-majors has been one of the most thrilling sport stories of the past few years, and it's only getting bigger. Michael Litos spent the 2005-06 season on the frontlines of the Colonial Athletic Association, home of such mid-major standouts as Old Dominion, Hofstra, and George Mason. With complete access to coaches and players, he found incredible tales of pressure and passion. He saw coaches and players struggling to put together a championship drive in spite of uncompromising schedules and half-filled arenas. And he was there when the ultimate underdog turned the world of college basketball upside-down-George Mason's historic run to the Final Four. In what was dubbed "The Year of the Mid-major," Cinderella delivers the ultimate look at what it means to be an underdog, and how the sport of college basketball is being transformed. In the last great league of amateur athletes, this is the story those who play for the love of the game...and the thrill of achieving the unbelieveable
