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Author: John U. Bacon
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1250016975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe brilliant but star-crossed Rich Rodriguez led the young Wolverines through three of the program's toughest seasons. With the entire sports world watching, they enjoyed thrilling victories and suffered heartbreaking losses.
Author: Jonathan Rowe
Publisher: Nelson Publishing&Marketing
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780978507503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTabloid reporter David Fisher, an overeducated, underachieving scofflaw, is wasting his talent and wallowing in a mid-life crisis. That is, until the day he stumbles upon the story of a fugitive radical hiding in his hometown. Fisher becomes obsessed with uncovering her true identity. At the same time, he becomes hopelessly bewitched by the sexy and mysterious Janet Fickle. Fisher desperately pursues these women and soon the question of identity takes on a more mysterious and pressing relevance. This is a clever, funny and gritty book!
Author: Craig Ross
Publisher: Ferne Press
Published: 2006-05-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780978507534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou don't have to be a sports fan to love this book. Craig Ross has written a comic gem about college sports and sports personalities in America. Packed with fresh and funny insights, Obscene Diaries is the perfect mix of serious analysis, wild imagination and sports lore. The author's obcession with all aspects of sports in our culture is contagious.
Author: Ann Miketa
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-03-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781470157845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recounts some of the unsettling and unsavory patrons she came across during her fifteen years working in a Midwest public library.
Author: John Kryk
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1442248262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorruption, scandals, and reports of wrongdoing in college football are constantly in the news. From Penn State’s Joe Paterno to Ohio State’s Jim Tressel, we have come to learn that some of the most lauded coaches don’t always live up to their saintly reputations. Perhaps no era of college football was ever more emblematic of this than the early 1900s, a time when coaches worked the system with merciless flair to recruit the best players and then keep them eligible to play, even while other coaches were trying to steal already-enrolled players from rival universities. Amos Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago and Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan were no exception, and their bitter rivalry is one for the ages. In Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football, John Kryk brings to life a story that is both timeless and familiar to all football fans, indeed to all sports fans: one man’s obsession to end the pain of a long losing streak to a hated rival. This is the story of how Amos Alonzo Stagg covertly punted many of the principles he espoused in order to dismantle one of the most powerful machines the game has known—Fielding Yost’s Michigan Wolverines. Kryk reveals the extent to which Stagg schemed to achieve victory against the “Point a Minute” Wolverines and the lengths Yost went to prevent that from happening. In addition, this book provides insight into college athletics’ corruption as a whole during this time, from under-the-table payments to recruits to contracted loans from wealthy boosters—and why the current NCAA rulebook contains page after page of recruiting and eligibility regulations. Featuring never-before-published internal correspondences of UM athletic leaders, Stagg’s surviving letters and notes, and reports from newspapers of the day, Stagg vs. Yost brings fresh insight into two legends of college football who would do almost anything to win. This book is a noteworthy and fascinating narrative for football fans, historians, and anyone interested in seeing where cutthroat college recruiting and coaching all began.
Author: Partners Book Distributing
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1593766580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Exploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane’s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane’s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson’s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane’s sister) to retrace the path of Jane’s final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, “page-turner” quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another’s life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, Jane’s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0545456177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBestselling author Jim Benton is back, with a brand-new spin on a favorite series! Bestselling author Jim Benton is back, with a brand-new spin on a favorite series!Dear Dumb Diary is a hilarious hit! Now after 12 books (each covering a month of her life), Jamie Kelly's upcoming diaries have a fresh look and a fun twist. It's Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two! The diary entries are still laugh-out-loud funny -- but this is a whole new beginning. Everything is another year dumber!As Jamie grapples with school, grades, and middle school's Big Questions, don't miss even more of her words of wisdom like, "If someone is really, really intelligent, it would be polite if they would ugly it up a bit before they left the house."(Jamie STILL has no idea that anybody is reading her diary. So please, please, please don't tell her.)
Author: Kim Fairley Gillis
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights photographs which show the activities of life aboard an Arctic exploration vessel, and captures the life of the Inuit of northern Greenland a century ago.
