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Sports Crazy

Author : Steven J. Overman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496821327
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Sports Crazy written by Steven J. Overman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education. Institutions are increasingly emulating college and professional sports models and losing sight of a host of educational and health goals. Steven J. Overman describes how this agenda is driven largely by partisan fans and parents of athletes who exert an inordinate influence on school priorities, and he explains how and why school administrators shockingly and consistently capitulate to these demands. The author underscores the incongruity of public schools involved in an entertainment business and the effects this diversion has on academic integrity, learning, life experience, and overall educational outcomes. Overman examines out-of-control school sports within the context of a school’s educational mission and curriculum, with telling reference to impacts on physical education. He explores as well the outsized place of interscholastic sports beyond the classroom and scrutinizes the distorted relationship between intramural or recreational sports and elitist, varsity athletics. Overman’s chapter on tackle football explains many reasons why this sport should be eliminated from the school extracurriculum and replaced by flag or touch football. Overman presents a brief history of interscholastic sports, and he compares and contrasts the American experience of school-sponsored sport to the European model of community-based clubs. Which approach better serves students? Overman recommends reforms in the context of a radical proposal to phase out interscholastic sports in favor of an intramural or club model. This approach would alleviate such problems as elitism and gender bias and reign in hypercompetitiveness while freeing schools to educate students rather than provide public entertainment.

Weird Sports

Author : Sol Neelman
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868282191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Weird Sports written by Sol Neelman and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport impacts on society, identity, passions and, for better or worse, even wardrobes. Sport allows people to express where they are from, what matters to them and how they have fun and photographing the weird side of sport is what Sol Neelman loves. Over the past five years, he has travelled the world seeking out the weird and wacky in sport where imagination has no boundaries. Whether it's urban golf, cardboard tube fighting, Godzilla wrestling, lingerie football, Segway polo or drag queen softball, this body of work documents events that are very weird!

Crazy-Proofing High School Sports

Author : John Elling Tufte
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610485742
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Crazy-Proofing High School Sports written by John Elling Tufte and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crazy-Proofing High School Sports examines the often troubling high school sports phenomenon in two parts. Part one focuses on the problems facing educators, students, and parents as they struggle to make high school sports worthwhile. Few if any strategies for improvement in education are effective without first knowing what the real reasons are for failure. Part two offers solutions for “crazy-proofing” high school sports. Schools have everything needed to accomplish great feats via high school sports participation, and now is the time for our educators to be the experts in their field. Written in a language educators can understand, and with stories everyone associated with high school sports will recognize, Crazy-Proofing High School Sports offers real solutions to the real problems hurting high school student athletes.

Crazy about Soccer

Author : Loris Lesynski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554514212
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Crazy about Soccer written by Loris Lesynski and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems about soccer covers the equipment, the joy of playing the game, and how to never lose another game.

Weird Sports

Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936310036
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Weird Sports written by Michael Teitelbaum and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gather up your frozen turkey, your lawnmower, your cheese wheel, and your bog-snorkeling gear because it's time for a trip to the weird world of sports! From underwater hockey to fish tossing, elephant soccer, and barrel rolling, this edition highlights dozens of sports you won't see on ESPN with great color photos, background history, and rules.

Sport Crazy

Author : Desmond Lynam
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099280286
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Sport Crazy written by Desmond Lynam and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crazy Good

Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416579265
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Good written by Charles Leerhsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago, the most famous athlete in America was a horse. But Dan Patch was more than a sports star; he was a cultural icon in the days before the automobile. Born crippled and unable to stand, he was nearly euthanized. For a while, he pulled the grocer's wagon in his hometown of Oxford, Indiana. But when he was entered in a race at the county fair, he won -- and he kept on winning. Harness racing was the top sport in America at the time, and Dan, a pacer, set the world record for the mile. He eventually lowered the mark by four seconds, an unheard-of achievement that would not be surpassed for decades. America loved Dan Patch, who, though kind and gentle, seemed to understand that he was a superstar: he acknowledged applause from the grandstands with a nod or two of his majestic head and stopped as if to pose when he saw a camera. He became the first celebrity sports endorser; his name appeared on breakfast cereals, washing machines, cigars, razors, and sleds. At a time when the highest-paid baseball player, Ty Cobb, was making $12,000 a year, Dan Patch was earning over a million dollars. But even then horse racing attracted hustlers, cheats, and touts. Drivers and owners bet heavily on races, which were often fixed; horses were drugged with whiskey or cocaine, or switched off with "ringers." Although Dan never lost a race, some of his races were rigged so that large sums of money could change hands. Dan's original owner was intimidated into selling him, and America's favorite horse spent the second half of his career touring the country in a plush private railroad car and putting on speed shows for crowds that sometimes exceeded 100,000 people. But the automobile cooled America's romance with the horse, and by the time he died in 1916, Dan was all but forgotten. His last owner, a Minnesota entrepreneur gone bankrupt, buried him in an unmarked grave. His achievements have faded, but throughout the years, a faithful few kept alive the legend of Dan Patch, and in Crazy Good, Charles Leerhsen travels through their world to bring back to life this fascinating story of triumph and treachery in small-town America and big-city racetracks.

Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport

Author : Kathleen Armour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134453760
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport written by Kathleen Armour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport is a completely new kind of resource for students and practitioners working in physical education or youth sport. The book consists of 20 richly described cases of individual young learners, each written by a team of authors with diverse expertise from across the sport, exercise and movement sciences. These cases bring together knowledge from single sub-disciplines into new interdisciplinary knowledge to inform best practice in physical education, teaching and coaching in youth sport settings. At the heart of each case is an individual young person of a specified age and gender, with a range of physical, social and psychological characteristics. Drawing on current research, theory and empirical data from their own specialist discipline, each chapter author identifies the key factors they feel should be taken into account when attempting to teach or coach the young person described. These strands are then drawn together at the end of each chapter and linked to current research from the sport pedagogy literature, to highlight the implications for planning and evaluating teaching or coaching sessions. No other book offers such a rich, vivid and thought-provoking set of pedagogical tools for understanding and working with children and young people in sport. This is an essential resource for any student on a physical education, coaching, kinesiology or sport science course, and for any teacher, coach or instructor working in physical education or youth sport.

Sports from Hell

Author : Rick Reilly
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385532695
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Sports from Hell written by Rick Reilly and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet. What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey—with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana—to discover the answer to this enduring question. From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both). These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that is winning—even when the victory in question might strike some as pointless, like the ability to sit in an oven-hot sauna for the longest time. It's debatable whether these sports push the body or just human idiocy to the outermost limits, but one thing is for sure: Sports in Hell is laugh-out-loud hilarious and will deliver plenty of unabashed fun.

Hoop Crazy

Author : Clair Bee
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433676389
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Hoop Crazy written by Clair Bee and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smooth-talking man who claims to have played basketball with Chip's father creates dissension on the Valley Falls high school team and plans to use Big Chip's pottery formula in his latest scam.

This Book Has Balls

Author : Michael Rapaport
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501160338
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book This Book Has Balls written by Michael Rapaport and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sports world according to Michael Rapaport—actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic—from the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys, but minus statistics, analytics, or anything else that isn’t pure hustle in this “hell of a book” (Shaquille O'Neal). In 1979, nine-year-old Michael Rapaport decided he was going to do whatever it took to be a pro baller. He practiced and practiced, but by the time he was fifteen, he realized there was no place for a slow, white Jewish kid in the NBA. So, he found another way to channel his obsession with sports: talking trash. In the “crazy, passionate, funny and intense” (Colin Cowherd) This Book Has Balls, Rapaport uses his signature smack-talk style and in-your-face humor to discuss everything from why LeBron will never be like Mike, that Tiger needs the ladies to get his golf game back, and how he once thought Mary Lou Retton was his true love. And, of course, why next year will be the year the New York Knicks win the championship. This book is a series of rants—some controversial, some affectionate, but all incredibly hilarious. “Something is wrong with Michael Rapaport but that’s what makes him right,” (Charlamagne tha God).

Sport Crazy (Signed)

Author : Des Lynham
Publisher : Century
ISBN 13 : 9780712682374
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Sport Crazy (Signed) written by Des Lynham and published by Century. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To the Extreme

Author : Robert E. Rinehart
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487148
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book To the Extreme written by Robert E. Rinehart and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity, and another by a practitioner/athlete who writes "from the inside out." The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as, What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use, value, and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport forms emerge, proliferate, and take hold in a sport-crazy world.

Hoop Crazy

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554696372
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Hoop Crazy written by Eric Walters and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nick and his pals suddenly find themselves short a man for the NBA-sponsored three-on-three tournament they plan to enter during the summer holidays, the solution seems simple enough. Nick, Kia and Mark are the key players on the team, so the fourth, though mandatory according to the rules, doesn't really have to be good at the game. A surprise visit from Nick's mother's cousin brings Ned, who is exactly Nick's age but not exactly an athlete, into the picture and onto the team. The other three teammates figure that as long as they don't actually have to use Ned in a game they will be fine. Then Mark sprains his ankle and can't play in the tournament. Suddenly Nick and Kia must find a way to make Ned an integral part of the team. This turns out to be no small task!

Sports

Author : National Geographic Kids
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426324677
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sports written by National Geographic Kids and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything has its weird side-- even sports! Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of spots trivia with this new addition to the very popular Weird but True series!

For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only

Author : Erin Downing
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250064201
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book For Soccer-Crazy Girls Only written by Erin Downing and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt like your soccer team is a second family? Then you're definitely soccer-crazy . . . and this book is definitely for you! From training techniques formations and strategies—For Soccer-Crazy Girls has it all! "To be a great soccer player, you must be in love with the game." – Mia Hamm Do you love lacing up your cleats for the first game of the season—and do you love it even more when they're caked with mud after the game? Are there many nights when you dream about kicking the ball, and watching as it soars through the air toward the goal? Would your perfect day include hours on the soccer field? Do you love to watch people play, soaking up everything you can from other soccer-crazy players? If so, this is the book for you!

Crazy Good

Author : Charles Leerhsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743291778
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Good written by Charles Leerhsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the life story of a record-breaking champion horse whose disabilities nearly caused his euthanasia at birth, in an account that also describes the contributions of his shopkeeper owner and alcoholic driver. 50,000 first printing.