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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tresham Gilbey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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:
Author : Stanley H. Teitelbaum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803216440
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols written by Stanley H. Teitelbaum and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the court and on the field they are the world?s winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, off the field our sports heroes lose their perspective, their balance, and ultimately their place. In a work as timely as the latest fracas on the basketball court or the most recent drug-induced scandal in the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum looks into the circumstances behind many star athletes? precipitous fall from grace. ø In his psychotherapy practice, Teitelbaum has worked extensively with professional athletes and sports agents?work he draws on here for insight into the psyche of sports figures and the off-the-field challenges they face. Considering both historical and current cases, he shows how, in many instances, the very factors that elevate athletes to superstardom contribute to their downfall. An evenhanded and honest look at athletes who have faltered, Teitelbaum?s work helps us see past our sports stars? exalted images into what those images?and their frailty?say about our society and ourselves.
Author : Donald G. Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313388059
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Sports Ethics in America written by Donald G. Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant topic in American society, sports ethics has also been the subject of an increasing number of scholarly studies during the past two decades. Moreover, a growing number of courses on sports are being offered at colleges and universities. In Sports Ethics in America, Donald G. Jones provides a valuable reference tool for teaching and research in a variety of sports-related disciplines. The book is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary bibliography with some 2,800 entries. Entries include both scholarly works and works written by journalists during the two decades from 1970 to 1990. The volume is divided into five major sections (1) General Works and Philosophy, (2) The Team, Players, and Coaches, (3) The Game, Competition, and Contestants, (4) Sport and Society, and (5) Reference Works. Each entry includes a brief listing of the subjects covered in the work. The volume also includes a full subject index and an author index.
Author : Gail B. Stewart
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781565107496
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Drugs and Sports written by Gail B. Stewart and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses opposing views on drugs and sports, including whether drug use is a serious problem in sports, whether drug use should be banned, why athletes take drugs, and if they should be tested for them. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Gordon Kainer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105561607
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Competitive Mind written by Gordon Kainer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have questions about competition? Is anything wrong in having a competitive mind? Why is competition, like competitive sports, so controversial? Is competition only about success or failure? What's the difference between being competitive and engaging in competition? If you'd like to explore answers, this book is for you. Competition is something we take for granted like the ground we walk on, the air we breathe and the food we eat. While ground, air and food are essential, can the same be said of competition? Can we trust that competition's advocates know its pros and cons? Since competition touches everything, isn't it an acceptable part of life? Maybe it's time to challenge these assumptions. Would you be surprised to learn that competition is a common Bible topic? Incidents of competition are generously scattered throughout the Bible. If you desire a sound, authentic perspective on competition, one that zeroes in on its origin, nature, and effects, this book is your guide!
Author : Simon Gardiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136588132
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Sports Law written by Simon Gardiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; Sports Workplace; and Safety in Sport. Recent developments covered in this edition include: EU competition law interaction with sport under arts. 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; the current World Anti-Doping Agency code; analysis of the recent Court of Arbitration for Sport Jurisprudence; reforms of the transfer system in team sports; anti-discrimination provisions in sport; engagement with match fixing; a focus on the legal context of 2012 London Olympics. Essential reading for students studying sports law or sports-related courses, this textbook will also prove useful to sports law practitioners and sports administrators in need of a clear companion to the field.
Author : Tim Harris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409086917
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Players written by Tim Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be natural to play games, but the sports we love aren't natural at all. Each and every one of them has been invented, tweaked, pushed and pulled to come up with better rules, cleverer tactics and more effective techniques. There are no prizes for guessing who invented the Cruyff Turn or the Fosbury Flop - but who invented the header or the sliding tackle? The dive pass or the scrum? The lob or the smash? The sand wedge or the tee? The googly or the flipper? This book introduces 250 men, women and animals, each of whom has transformed at least one major sport. Famous or infamous, remembered or forgotten, god-like or god-awful, the game was never the same after them. In making his selection, Tim Harris, author of Sport, has drawn on years of passion, argument and research to produce a list that is at once personal and authoritative, provocative and challenging: the rogues, rulers and revolutionaries who shaped the games we play today.
Author : Irv Muchnick
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 155490286X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Wrestling Babylon written by Irv Muchnick and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irvin Muchnick ' a widely published writer and nephew of the late, legendary St. Louis wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick ' has produced a book unlike any other on the astonishing growth of professional wrestling and its profound impact on mainstream sports and society. In Wrestling Babylon, he traces the demise of wrestling's old Mafia-like territories and the rise of a national marketing base thanks to cable television, deregulation and a culture-wide nervous breakdown. Naturally, the figure of WWE's Vince McMahon lurks throughout, but equally evident is the public's late-empire lust for bread, circuses, and blood. As this book demonstrates, the more cartoonishly unreal wrestling got, the more chillingly real it became. What truly distinguishes Wrestling Babylon, however, is Muchnick's ability to show how professional wrestling has become the ur-carnival for a culture that feeds on escapist displays of humiliation, revenge, fantasy characters, and sex. His People magazine article on Hulk Hogan blew the lid off the drug abuse of the sport's signature superstar. His award-winning Penthouse profile of the ill-starred Von Erich clan was the first to connect the dots between wrestling, televangelism, and MTV-style production values. His never-before-published investigation of the death of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka's girlfriend suggests the cover-up of a murder. The book's appendix ' a comprehensive listing of the dozens of wrestlers who died prematurely over the last generation, with little or no attention ' is both a valuable resource for wrestling historians and a shocking document of the ruthless way sports entertainment eats its own.
Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 184901826X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Game written by Mihir Bose and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, and in the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays- this Corinthian spirit was then exported around the world. The competitive spirit, the importance of fairness, the nobility of the gifted amateur seemed to sum up everything that was good about Britishness and the games they played. Today, sport is dominated by corruption, money, celebrity and players who are willing to dive in the box if it wins them a penalty. Yet, we still believe and talk about the game as if it had a higher moral purpose. Since the age of Thomas Arnold, Sport has been used to glorify dictatorships and was at the heart of cold war diplomacy. Prime Ministers, princes and presidents will do whatever they can to ensure that their country holds a major sporting tournament. Nelson Mandela saw the victory of the Rugby World Cup as essential to his hopes for the Rainbow Nation. Mihir Bose has lived his life around sport and in this book he tells the story of how Sport has lost its original spirit and how it has emerged in the 20th century to become the most powerful political tool in the world. With examples and stories from around the world including how the sport-hating Thomas Arnold become an icon; how a German manufacturer gave Jessie Owens a pair of shoes at the Berlin games of 1936 and went on to dominate the world of sport; how India stole cricket from the ICC; how an Essex car dealer become the most powerful man in Formula 1; and who really sold football out. Praise for Mihir Bose: 'Mihir Bose is India's CLR James.' Simon Barnes, The Times. 'Mihir's insider knowledge is unsurpassed' David Welch. 'His Olympic contacts are second to none. He knows everybody.' Sue Mott.
Author : Gerry Finn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136330283
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Football Culture written by Gerry Finn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.
Author : Arthur A. Raney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135257337
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Sports and Media written by Arthur A. Raney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive Handbook covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship, one of the up-and-coming topics bridging media entertainment, sports management, and popular culture. Organized into historical, institutional, spectator, and critical studies perspectives, this volume brings together the work of many researchers into one quintessential volume, defining the full scope of the subject area. Editors Arthur Raney and Jennings Bryant have recruited contributors from around the world to identify and synthesize the research representing numerous facets of the sports-media relationship. As a unique collection on a very timely topic, the volume offers chapters examining the development of sports media; production, coverage, and economics of sports media; sports media audiences; sports promotion; and race and gender issues in sports and media. Unique in its orientation and breadth, the Handbook of Sports and Media is destined to play a major role in the future development of this fast-growing area of study. It is a must-have work for scholars, researchers, and graduate students working in media entertainment, media psychology, mass media/mass communication, sports marketing and management, popular communication, popular culture, and cultural studies.
Author : Nick J. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415899222
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Sports and Christianity written by Nick J. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," the contributors, who include many of the pioneers in the field, address a wide range of topics. These include biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility, the Vatican's perspective on sport and genetic enhancement technologies.
Author : Ellis Cashmore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745657338
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Tyson written by Ellis Cashmore and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmore's answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil rights. Cashmore's eviscerating analysis of Tyson's life and the culture in which he grew up, rose to prominence and descended into disgrace provokes the reader into re-thinking the role of one of the most controversial and infamous figures of recent history. Told as an odyssey-style homeward journey to Tyson's multi-pathological origins in the racially-explosive ghettos of the 1960s, Tyson's story is part biography, part tragedy and part exposition. His associations with people like Al Sharpton, Don King and Tupac Shakur shaped his life; and events, such as the O J Simpson trial and the Rodney King riots, formed a turbulent background for the Tyson psychodrama. Over the course of an epic boxing career, Tyson was transformed from the most celebrated athlete on earth to a primal, malevolent hate-figure. Yet, even after being condemned as a brute, Tyson retained a power - a power to captivate. Cashmore reveals that the sources of that power lie as much in us as in Tyson himself.
Author : Douglas Putnam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476652414
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Sudden Deaths in Sports written by Douglas Putnam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers. From slugger Ed Delahanty's fatal plunge into the Niagara River in 1903 to the demise of Dwayne Haskins on a dark Florida highway in 2022, their untimely ends shocked and saddened millions of fans. Many died from injuries sustained in the course of competition. Others met their fate in airplane and motor vehicle crashes, by freak accident and through disease, drug overdose, drowning and suicide. Several were victims of cold-blooded murder. Regardless of how or why they perished, Dale Earnhardt, Len Bias, Thurman Munson, Flo Hyman, the Marshall Thundering Herd and all the rest faced the same merciless truth--there would be no next year.
Author : Michael Peters
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630488
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Great Sports Documentaries written by Michael Peters and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports and competition have been film subjects since the dawn of the medium. Olympic sports documentaries have been around nearly as long as the games themselves; films about surfing, boxing, roller derby, motorcycle racing and bodybuilding were theatrical successes during the 1960s and 1970s. The author surveys the history of the sports documentary subgenre, covering more than 100 award-winning films of 40+ different competitions, from traditional team sports to dogsled racing to ballroom dancing.
