Sweet Shot: The Basketball Life and Legacy of Melvin Sugar McLaughlin
Sweet Shot: The Basketball Life and Legacy of Melvin Sugar McLaughlin

Author: Vernon Wendt

Publisher: Twigallamerican Incorporated

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781735979601

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West Michigan legend Melvin "Sugar" McLaughlin developed his unparalleled shooting range after falling in love with basketball as a four-year old. His long-range marksmanship and charismatic personality have been filling gyms and arenas since middle school. He's played with and against some of the game's all-time greats, including Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas, George Gervin, and Dominique Wilkins. In his sixth decade, Sugar still lights it up, as a role model for players and dreamers of all ages. In Sweet Shot, Dr. Vernon Wendt reveals the secret behind the motivation of the greatest long-range shooter who never played in the NBA. Discover with Sugar a greater purpose for your gifts than personal glory. Sweet Shot will inspire you to chase after your own dreams, re-visit past or discarded dreams, and dream even more dreams. To dare to be great like Sugar and keep on shooting until you realize the sweet shot of discovering God's purpose for your dreams. Swoosh! Your own "nothing but net" shot just might change the world!

Five-Point Play
Five-Point Play

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2001-11-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0759526427

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The story of Duke University's 2000-2001 championship basketball season is one of a young inexperienced team, insurmountable odds, and the visionary coach that brought them to victory.

Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future
Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future

Author: Dav Pilkey

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0545513162

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Tra-la-laaa! Dav Pilkey -- ahem -- we mean, George and Harold, the authors of SUPER DIAPER BABY, are back with their second epic novel! Meet Ook and Gluk, the stars of this sensationally silly graphic novel from the creators of Captain Underpants! It's 500,001 BC, and Ook and Gluk's hometown of Caveland, Ohio, is under attack by an evil corporation from the future. When Ook, Gluk, and their little dinosaur pal Lily are pulled through a time portal to 2222, they discover a future world that's even more devastated than their own. Luckily, they find a friend in Master Wong, a martial arts instructor who trains them in the ways of kung fu. Now all they have to do is travel back in time 502,223 years and save the day!

River Jordan
River Jordan

Author: Joe William Trotter

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1998-03-19

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780813109503

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Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.

Loose Balls
Loose Balls

Author: Terry Pluto

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1439127522

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What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the ABA won the artistic war. With its stress on wide-open individual play, the adoption of the 3-point shot and pressing defense, and the encouragement of flashy moves and flying dunks, today's NBA is still—decades later —just the ABA without the red, white and blue ball. Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It's a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports—told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.

The Digital Classroom
The Digital Classroom

Author: David T. Gordon

Publisher: Harvard Education Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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Educators and technology experts share their thoughts on classroom technology and how equity, the digital divide, and other issues need to be addressed to ensure students and teachers are realizing the full potential of different technologies.

Black Cultural Traffic
Black Cultural Traffic

Author: Harry Justin Elam

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2005-12-02

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0472068407

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Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

Out and In: A Mystery-thriller
Out and In: A Mystery-thriller

Author: Pat Dunlap Evans

Publisher: A.M. Chai Literary

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780996882224

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Out and In starts at a gallop when stunning beauty and amateur cellist Marie Donovan is jailed for killing a lecherous opera maestro. She swears she's being framed, but only her best friend and lawyer believe her. Marie is no stranger to trouble. Months before, her pro-quarterback husband Cole sails to his death off a Dallas high-rise, many say in shame after his financial scheme leaves Marie on the hook for millions. Widowed and ruined, Marie pins her hopes on attorney Ryan Ingles, one of Cole's football pals. Marie, Ryan, and legal team fly to exotic islands in search of clues to Cole's missing millions. As the tropics weave a romantic spell, a corrupt financier threatens Marie's bliss, leaving her to wonder if she'll ever clear her name and find her place in this world. Reporter Terrance Nichols's column, "Out and In," provides a heavy dose of speculation to keep you guessing. Just when you think you know who killed the notoriously promiscuous maestro, you may be surprised. This legal thriller has the twists and turns you'd expect in a best-selling mystery, plus a romantic and heartfelt journey you can savor along with the novel's beautiful female