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Spoiled Sports

Author : Garret L. Kolb
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740757044
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Spoiled Sports written by Garret L. Kolb and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being included in this "hall of shame" is a dubious honor, but countless fans of professional football, basketball, and baseball are sure to make this book a star player. As the fan base for professional sports rabidly seeks to score news on the most famous-or most infamous-athletes, reports of outrageous, shocking, and even disturbing behavior from the players have skyrocketed. Spoiled Sports: Comical and Disturbing Stories of the 21st Century is an entertaining expose of the funniest and most shameful behavior by professional athletes. The stories chronicle professional athletes' most amusing, unusual, undignified, and unethical criminal escapades. The book, by first-time author and sports fanatic Garret Kolb, features 38 recent accounts of ridiculous and shameful athlete behavior, along with a detailed list of today's 38 worst offenders (the "Ingrate 38"), according to both courts of law and public opinion. A 38-question quiz rounds out the compilation and tests the reader's knowledge of sports players and their on- and off-the-field shenanigans. Included are such misadventures and mishaps as: * Green Bay Packer Najeh Davenport is arrested after defecating in the laundry basket of an unsuspecting coed. * A minor-league baseball game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is delayed while Boston Red Sox Manny Ramirez searches the field for his lost diamond earring. These and dozens of other stories are sure to hit a home run with legions of sports fans.

Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Way but to Fight

Author : Andrew R. M. Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731976X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book No Way but to Fight written by Andrew R. M. Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympic gold medalist. Two-time world heavyweight champion. Hall of Famer. Infomercial and reality TV star. George Foreman’s fighting ability is matched only by his acumen for selling. Yet the complete story of Foreman’s transition from an urban ghetto to global celebrity has never before been told. Raised in Houston’s “Bloody Fifth” Ward, battling against scarcity in housing and food, young Foreman fought sometimes for survival and other times just for fun. But when a government program rescued him from poverty and introduced him to the sport of boxing, his life changed forever. In No Way but to Fight, Andrew R. M. Smith traces Foreman’s life and career from Great Migration to Great Society, through the Cold War and Culture Wars, out of urban Houston and onto the world stage where he discovered that fame wrought new challenges. Drawing on new interviews with George Foreman and declassified government documents, as well as more than fifty domestic and international newspapers and magazines, Smith brings to life the exhilarating story of a true American icon. No Way but to Fight is an epic worthy of a champion.

Critical Readings: Sport, Culture And The Media

Author : Rowe, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033521150X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Critical Readings: Sport, Culture And The Media written by Rowe, David and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media contains a broad range of essays on the relationships between sport, culture and the media. Featuring a mixture of classic works and recent texts, the Reader provides students, lecturers and researchers with an essential core of readings on the topic. The readings examine media and sport in Europe, North and South America, Australia, Asia and Africa and explore topics such as: Sport as entertainment: the role of mass communications The manufacture of sports news for the daily press The televised sports manhood formula Women, sport and globalization Sport on the information superhighway Advertising sportswear to black audiences Mega-events and media culture: sport and the Olympics Designed to complement the key textbook in the area, Sport, Culture and Media, this collection of critical readings can also be used independently, ideally in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in culture and media, sociology, sport and leisure studies, communication, race, ethnicity and gender. Essays by: John Amis, David L. Andrews, Ketra L. Armstrong, Frank B. Ashley, Joan Chandler, George B. Cunningham, Michele Dunbar, Laurel Davis, John Goldlust, Darnell Hunt, Kyle W. Kusz, James F. Larson, Geoffrey Lawrence, Mark D. Lowes, David McGimpsey, Jim McKay, Miquel de Moragas Sp?, Michael A. Messner, Toby Miller, Robert E. Rinehart, Nancy K. Rivenburgh, David Rowe, Maurice Roche, Michael Sagas, Michael Silk, Trevor Slack, Deborah Stevenson, Brian Stoddart, Lawrence A. Wenner, Brian J. Wrigley

Stories of Scottish Sports

Author : Thomas Dykes (sporting writer.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Scottish Sports written by Thomas Dykes (sporting writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cost Accounting

Author : Gordon L. Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cost Accounting written by Gordon L. Klein and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Weasel in the Works

Author : Ken S Green
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664165959
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book A Weasel in the Works written by Ken S Green and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again deep upon-a-time in a cold Alaskan semi-wilderness winter, a lonely light breaks a window ... It is the humble author, Ken S Green, up late with inspired fingertips fluttering quietly upon the keyboard ... For posterity and a brighter tomorrow, he plonks out adventurous words documenting the antics of our previously known Mr. Weasel. The cauldron bubbles another pot of tea and under the watchful eyes of household mousy critters, he puts another log on the fire ... Outside, the wind howls with the owls as branches snap, crackle and pop with catchy little tunes ...It is a very squirrelly time of year when Weasels yawn and dream dreams of snacks and nibbles ... There are many of these nibbles to be had and alluring possibilities beckon ... For instance, he wonders, “Is this a truly a house I see before me full of creaks and cracks and trails of crumbs?” There is only one way to find out and so, he must delve into new adventures ... He wonders if he is Weaselly enough for the job ahead ... Apparently so, for with a special card in paw, he makes a run and his activities continue to continue in this latest tail, Book Six of The Weasel Chronicles. Although our hero, Mr. Weasel, is well versed in his own species’ aversion to what has been quietly referred to as “work”, his instinct tells him there should be a Weasel in the Works somewhere, anyway. “It just stands to reason,” he thinks to himself. It is obvious to the casual observer, of course, that this must be so, and so in this All-New Tail, Mr. Weasel races off to find his rightful place in the cosmos. After winning the Winning Card the door is open and off, he goes ... To where? Nobody knows ... Only reading will tell ... So, do not fail, just read this latest enthralling Tail of our magnificent Mr. Weasel, who was brilliantly introduced in Book One ... and memorably re-introduced in Books Two and Three and Four and Five ... is once more superbly re-re-introduced again in Book Six, A Weasel in the Works.

The morality of field sports

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The morality of field sports written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes

Author : Tresham Gilbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by Tresham Gilbey and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport

Author : Cesar R. Torres
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408182572
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport written by Cesar R. Torres and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph addresses a perceived lack of clarity in the recent turns toward 'theological interpretation', presenting an understanding of theological interpretation that is highly eclectic.

Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives

Author : Randolph Feezell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803271530
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives written by Randolph Feezell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s more to sports than the ethos of competition, entertainment, and commercialism expressed in popular media and discourse. Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives discusses sport in the context of several traditional philosophical questions, including: What is a good human life and how does sport factor into it? To whom do we look for ethical guidance? What makes human activities or projects meaningful? Randolph Feezell examines these questions along with other relevant topics in the philosophy of sport such as the contribution of play to a meaningful life, the various reasons for pessimistic views of sport, the various claims that celebrated athletes are role models, and the seldom-questioned view that coaches are in a position to offer advice to athletes on how to live or on leadership skills. He also discusses the way that non-Western attitudes found in Buddhism, Taoism, and the Bhagavad Gita might be used to address the vulnerabilities of sports participants. Feezell draws from current sports issues, popular literature, and contemporary sports figures to shed light on the attraction and value of sports and examine the accompanying ethical issues.

The Tiger Woods Phenomenon

Author : Donna J. Barbie
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786492732
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Tiger Woods Phenomenon written by Donna J. Barbie and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book arise from the premise that Tiger Woods is not simply a phenomenal player but is also an Everyman who has displayed all-too-human foibles and weaknesses. The first half of the collection focuses on Tiger's superman game and how he has affected, and been affected by, the golfing world. Works on the sport that examine this supreme golfer cannot capture the full significance of the Tiger Woods phenomenon, however. Unlike many other talented athletes, Woods has transcended his sport, becoming a cultural icon. In the second half of the book, scholars examine everyman Tiger, illustrating how his life reflects significant and often contentious issues within American culture and the world.

Imagining Baseball

Author : David McGimpsey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336965
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Baseball written by David McGimpsey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack (several of which are aimed at his beloved, and beleaguered, Montreal Expos). Literary baseball may be a drastically over-analyzed subject, but, like an overachieving rookie, McGrimpsey produces a far better book on it than one would have ever thought possible." --Louis Jacobson, Washington Post "This is the most important critical book on baseball literature in many years." --Murray Sperber, author of Onward to Victory From Field of Dreams to The Natural, from baseball cards to highbrow fiction, this book explores the place of baseball in American popular culture.

Cruise Crazy

Author : Bob Mick
Publisher : Capital Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933102597
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Cruise Crazy written by Bob Mick and published by Capital Books. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Kruz Nutty's laugh therapy for all Crazy Cruisers who HAVE to be afloat or sink in despair

Showtime

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592408877
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Showtime written by Jeff Pearlman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness and Gunslinger delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned. Beginning with the arrival of Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the number-one overall pick of the 1979 draft, the Lakers played basketball with gusto and pizzazz, unleashing coach Jack McKinney’s “Showtime” run-and-gun style on a league unprepared for their speed and ferocity—and became the most captivating show in sports and, arguably, in all-around American entertainment. The Lakers’ roster overflowed with exciting all-star-caliber players, including center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and they were led by the incomparable Pat Riley, known for his slicked-back hair, his Armani suits, and his arrogant strut. Hollywood’s biggest celebrities lined the court and gorgeous women flocked to the arena. Best of all, the team was a winner. Between 1980 and 1991, the Lakers played in an unmatched nine NBA championship series, capturing five of them. Bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost three hundred interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America’s greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes stories of the players’ decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era’s remarkable rise to its tragic end—marked by Magic Johnson’s 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV—Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.

The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions

Author : Laszlo Zsolnai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315445468
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions written by Laszlo Zsolnai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, it is being recognized that spirituality, defined here as "a multiform search for a transcendent meaning of life that connects them to all living beings and brings them in touch with God or ‘Ultimate Reality,’" is an aspect of almost every sphere and aspect of social life. It appears in humanity’s dealings with nature, home and community, healing, economics and business, knowledge, and education. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions is a stimulating collection that summarizes the most important issues, frameworks, discussions, and problems relating to spiritually inspired activities in different fields of social life. The contributors explore how spirituality is a part of existence and present approaches and models for professionals working in diverse areas. Presented in seven parts, the book provides a full overview of current research and practice. Part II, "Facets of spirituality," explores topics including philosophy, psychology, theology, and culture. Part III, "Nature," looks at ecology, agriculture, cities, and tourism. Part IV, "Home and community," presents chapters on various life stages, disability, gender, and culture. Part V, "Healing," examines medicine, mental and physical health, and ill-health. In Part VI, "Economy, politics, and law," contributors discuss business, leadership and the workplace, peace, and policing. Part VII, "Knowledge and education," includes chapters on science, design, fashion, literature, and the arts. In the final part, "Way forward," the editors look to the future with a chapter on inter-spirituality and the renewal of social practices. Driven by contemporary research and new developments, this Handbook is an innovative and interdisciplinary collection that provides an essential overview of contemporary spirituality and society from an international selection of contributors. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions offers accessible, diverse, and engaging international research, and its scope will appeal to academics and students of a wide range of subjects, including aging and addiction, psychology, theology, religious studies, sociology, business studies, and philosophy. It will also be an important work for professionals in medical and social services, the clergy, education, business, the arts, religious communities, and politics, and members of organizations looking at the links between spirituality, religion, and society.