LibGuides: E-Books: Sports

Overview

General Sports
Archery
Baseball
Basketball
Chess

General Sports

Coaching and Management Techniques in Athletics This book examines the role of a coach or manager in sports and athletics. (Imprint: Nova Press)
Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology Entries explore the theory, research, and application of psychology as it relates to sport and fitness in a manner that is accessible and jargon-free to help readers better understand human behavior in sport and exercise settings. From personal factors to situational factors influencing performance to specific psychological techniques for enhancing performance, this work provides comprehensive coverage of the field via approximately 350 to 400 signed entries.
ESPN : The Making of a Sports Media Empire Travis Vogan teams archival research and interviews with an all-star cast to pen the definitive account of how ESPN turned X's and O's into billions of $$$.
Globalizing Sport : National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.
Playing With the Boys : Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with men.
Sports : An Illustrated History
Sports Justice : The Law and the Business of Sports
The Ethics of Coaching Sports : Moral, Social, and Legal Issues An invited collection of prominent scholars examining normative issues raised by the role of coaching, the ethics of competition, coaching youth sports, and coaching relating to the law
The Sports Film : Games People Play After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and expl
The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies : Featuring the 100 Greatest Sports Films of All Time Now, two nationally renowned sports media personalities take on the task of ranking the top 100 sports movies of all time, including entertaining and informative lists, special features, and contributions from over 75 top sports figures. From drama to comedy to tragedy to documentary, all the greatest sports films are here, brought to life through detailed summaries, fun facts and trivia, behind-the-scenes revelations, plus images from the greatest moments in sports film history.

Archery

Baseball

A Talk in the Park : Nine Decades of Baseball Tales From the Broadcast Booth Since the debut of radio, the baseball announcer has been a reporter, entertainer, and extended member of the family. Many of the pastime's most popular announcers tell their favorite stories.
A People's History of Baseball Told with passion and righteous outrage, A People's History of Baseball offers an incisive alternative history of America's much-loved--if misunderstood--national pastime.
American Jews and America's Game : Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball The life stories of these and many others, on and off the field, have been compiled from nearly fifty in-depth interviews and arranged by decade in this edifying and entertaining work of oral and cultural history. In American Jews and America's Game each person talks about growing up Jewish and dealing with Jewish identity, assimilation, intermarriage, future viability, religious observance, anti-Semitism, and Israel.
Baseball : The People's Game In Baseball: The People's Game, Dorothy Seymour Mills and Harold Seymour produce an authoritative, multi-volume chronicle of America's national pastime.
Baseball : The Early Years Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills 'Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution.
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity : The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity is an investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way. It pays special attention to baseball's role in the reconstruction of American identity after September 11, 2001.
Baseball's New Frontier : A History of Expansion, 1961-1998 When Major League Baseball first expanded in 1961 with the addition of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, it started a trend that saw the number of franchises almost double, from sixteen to thirty, while baseball attendance grew by 44 percent. The story behind this staggering growth, told for the first time in Baseball's New Frontier, is full of twists and unexpected turns, intrigue, and, in some instances, treachery
Carrying Jackie's Torch : The Players Who Integrated Baseball—And America
Center Field Shot : A History of Baseball on Television
Inventing Baseball Heroes : Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines'herocrafting'in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson.
National Pastime : How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer This is the first in-depth, cross-cultural comparison of these two great pastimes and the megabusinesses that they have become.
Playing America's Game : Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn—passing as'Spanish'in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues.
The American Dream and the National Game This engaging study examines sports as both a symbol of American culture and a formative force that shapes American values. Leverett T. Smith Jr. uses'high'culture, in the form of literature and criticism, to analyze the popular culture of baseball and professional football.

Basketball

Cheating the Spread : Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history.
King of the Court : Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution This beautifully written book—sophisticated, nuanced, and insightful—reveals a singular individual who expressed the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. while echoing the warnings of Malcolm X.
National Basketball Association, The: Business, Organization And Strategy This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-year-old NBA from a business perspective. Covering the late 1940s to 2009, it focuses on the league's expansions and mergers, team territories and relocations, franchise organizations and operations, basketball arenas and markets, and NBA domestic and international affairs
The Rise of the National Basketball Association David George Surdam describes how a handful of ambitious ice hockey arena owners created the league as a way to increase the use of their facilities, growing the organization by fits and starts.

Chess

A Psychobiography of Bobby Fischer : Understanding the Genius, Mystery, and Psychological Decline of a World Chess Champion
Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems : The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems. It is not simply about chess but the chessboard itself--that simple grid of squares so common to games around the world. And, more importantly, the fascinating mathematics behind it.
Chess and Machine Intuition
Philosophy Looks at Chess Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Philosophical concepts as varied as phenomenology and determinism share the page with a treatise on hip-hop chess tactics and the question of whether Garry Kasparov is, in fact, a cyborg.
The Future of Post-human Chess : A Preface to a New Theory of Tactics and Strategy 'This book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of chess, especially in the context of strategy and tactics-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on chess in a new way not conceived before.'

Overview

Fishing
Football (American)
Golf
History of Sports
Hockey
Hunting
Motor Sports
Olympics
Sailing
Skating
Skiing
Soccer (Football)
Sports Fans
Track & Field

Fishing

Blood Knots : A Memoir of Fathers, Friendship, and Fishing Blood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler's life. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers.
Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife Associated Recreation This book looks at The U.S. Department of the Interior which protects and manages the Nation's natural resources and cultural heritage, provides scientific and other information about those resources and honors its trust responsibilities or special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and affiliated Island Communities.
Hide, Horn, Fish and Fowl : Texas Hunting and Fishing Lore This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society includes serious, introspective articles on hunting and fishing, as well as humorous tall tales and “windies” about the big ones that got away—all lore that reminds us of that drive that calls us to become predators again.
Saving Global Fisheries : Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In SavingGlobal Fisheries, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre analyze the problem of overfishing and offer a provocative proposal for a global regulatory and policy approach
The Quest for the Golden Trout : Environmental Loss and America’s Iconic Fish The Quest for the Golden Trout is about looking at our nation's rivers with a more critical eye—and asking more questions about both historic and current practices in fisheries management.
Trout Streams of the Heart

Football (American)

Discipline and Indulgence : College Football, Media, and the American Way of Life During the Cold War
Football Fans, Their Information, The Web and The Personal Home Page
Football Revolution : The Rise of the Spread Offense and How It Transformed College Football The book reveals how Jack Neumeier, a high school football coach in California in the 1970s, built an offensive strategy around a young player named John Elway, whose father was a coach at nearby California State University, Northridge.
Keepers of the Flame : NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media NFL Films changed the way Americans view football. Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media traces the subsidiary's development from a small independent film production company to the marketing machine that Sports Illustrated named' perhaps the most effective propaganda organ in the history of corporate America.
NFL Football : A History of America's New National Pastime This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the reader an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's steady leadership guided the league's explosive growth during the era of Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl's transformation into a mid-winter spectacle.
Run to Glory and Profits : The Economic Rise of the NFL During the 1950s Run to Glory and Profits tells the economic story of how in one decade the NFL transformed from having a modest following in the Northeast to surpassing baseball as this country's most popular sport.To break from the margins of the sports landscape, pro football brought innovation, action, skill, and episodic suspense on “any given Sunday.”
The Game Before the Money : Voices of the Men Who Built the NFL The Game before the Money recounts the National Football League's story and the evolution of America's most popular sport in the vivid words of men who built the NFL.
The National Forgotten League : Entertaining Stories and Observations From Pro Football's First Fifty Years The first fifty years of America's most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the “complete story” of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that “complete story” has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears'Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis? Or the two one-armed players who suited up for NFL teams in 1945? Or Steelers owner Art Rooney postponing a game in 1938 because of injuries? These are just a few of the little-known facts Dan Daly unearths in recounting the untold history of pro football in its first half century

Golf

Careers in Professional Golf : Tournament Player: Club/course Golf Pro
Golf a Good Walk & Then Some : A Quintessential History of the Game This is the first complete history of the game since the classic book, The Story of American Golf by Herbert Warren Wind, which was published in 1975. Golf A Good Walk & Then Some is a thorough and concise history of golf, its championships, and it competitions.
Golf by the Numbers : How Stats, Math, and Physics Affect Your Game Golf by the Numbers analyzes the mathematical strategies behind the sport, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at how numbers drive the game. Computers, GPS trackers, swing simulators, and high-speed cameras have introduced new and exciting ways of seeing and understanding the complicated and endlessly fascinating game of golf.
Let There Be Pebble : A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf
The Kingdom of Golf in America From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups and downs, ins and outs, in the growth of golf as a community.
The Masters : A Hole-by-hole History of America's Golf Classic
Wide Open Fairways : A Journey Across the Landscapes of Modern Golf A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest.

History of Sports

Gender Relations in Sport Designed primarily as a textbook for upper division undergraduate courses in gender and sport, gender issues, sport sociology, cultural sport studies, and women's studies, Gender Relations in Sport provides a comprehensive examination of the intersecting themes and concepts surrounding the study of gender and sport.
Instrumentality and Values in Sport This book considers the role of instrumentality in sport and its influence on the athlete. Instrumentality is defined as a means-ends relationship, and it is discussed from the perspective of the logic of sport.
Integrating the Gridiron : Black Civil Rights and American College Football
It's How You Play the Game : International Perspectives on the Study of Sport The book uses insights from Anthropology, Communication, Political Economy and Sociology to illuminate the ubiquitous presence of sports in politics, identity, business and education.
Sport History in the Digital Era In this volume, contributors from Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze the parallel transformation in the field of sport history, showing the ways powerful digital tools raise vital philosophical, epistemological, ontological, methodological, and ethical questions for scholars and students alike.

Hockey

Canada's Game : Hockey and Identity Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).
Career As a Hockey Professional : Players, Coaches, Managers, Scouts
Deceptions and Doublecross : How the NHL Conquered Hockey
Hockey's Most Wanted : The Top 10 Book of Wicked Slapshots, Bruising Goons, and Ice Oddities
Presents a collection of top 10 lists of national hockey league records, history, and bizarre happenings.
Leave No Doubt : A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams In this book, against the dramatic backdrop of the Canadian men's gold medal victory in Vancouver, Mike Babcock provides an inspiring roadmap for achieving goals and fulfilling dreams. This is not just a book about hockey but a book about life, rooted in Babcock's'Leave No Doubt'credo.
Men at Play : A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey

Hunting

Dog and Gun : A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting: Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents
Making Game : An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is
National Wildlife Refuge System
Texas Market Hunting : Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws
The Best of All Seasons : Fifty Years As a Montana Hunter Since first learning to handle a Winchester.22 as a kid, Dan Aadland has exulted in hunting--not as a sport but as a calling. In this book he takes readers to Montana's prairies and mountains in search of antelope, whitetail deer, moose, and the occasional upland bird as he vividly describes the rituals and camaraderie of hunting culture.
The Hard Way Home : Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt These essays offer a view of Alaska that is at once introspective and adventurous. Here we find the state's plants, animals, people, geography, politics, and culture considered from an intimate perspective, leading to hard-earned lessons about conservation, sustainability, and living well. Ever the irrepressible guide, Kahn invites readers to share his experiences and discoveries and to consider questions about a place, and a life, that are disappearing.
Wingbeats and Heartbeats : Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs, and Days Afield In this sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant collection of essays, Dave Books celebrates a time-honored connection to the land and the hard-earned hunting rewards of an outdoor life. Through these essays, readers tag along on adventures in the forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the fields of Iowa and North Dakota, the prairies of eastern Montana and Nebraska, the mountains of western Montana and Idaho, and the deserts of Arizona

Motor Sports

Indy : The Race and Ritual of the Indianapolis 500
Motorcycling Alabama : 50 Ride Loops Through the Heart of Dixie
Real NASCAR : White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition.
Taking Stock : Life in NASCAR's Fast Lane

Olympics

Activism and the Olympics : Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London Given their scale in the modern era, the Games are a useful window for better comprehending larger cultural, social, and historical processes, argues Jules Boykoff, an academic social scientist and a former Olympic athlete.In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era.
Diplomatic Games : Sport, Statecraft, and International Relations Since 1945 In Diplomatic Games, a team of international scholars examines how the nexus of sport and foreign relations has driven political and cultural change since 1945, demonstrating how governments have used athletic competition to maintain and strengthen alliances, promote policies, and increase national prestige.
The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chronicle the impact of the Munich Games on West German society.
The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008 : Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China This interdisciplinary volume, the first to focus on the collective East Asian Olympic experience, reveals the Games' important role in the creation of a modern Asian identity in a world—and a global sporting culture—still dominated by the West.
The Humanistic Values of the Beijing Olympics This book provides an understanding of Chinese values through the Beijing Olympic Games. It examines Chinese culture through the prism of one of the most important international events in recent memory.
The Sochi Predicament : Contexts, Characteristics and Challenges of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 This book conducts a thorough inventory of the contexts, characteristics and challenges facing the Sochi Games. It deals with the problems from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian and Circassian perspectives and makes in-depth analyses of profound challenges related to matters such as identity, security, and ethnic relations.

Sailing

Call Me Captain : A Memoir of a Woman at Sea
Sailing Alone Around the World As the first person to ever complete a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe, Joshua Slocum recounts his pioneering feat in Sailing Alone Around the World (1899), an engaging memoir of his adventures aboard the sloop Spray. An immediate success, the book has inspired countless later travelers.
The Trouble with Old Boats Drawn from the best of Adrian Morgan's entertaining columns musing on the world of traditional boats and the joys of building, sailing and working on them, here is his long-awaited bunkside read. Billed as a'zen and the art of wooden boatbuilding', it will resonate with classic boat enthusiasts everywhere. Illustrated with evocative watercolour paintings by Charlotte Watters.
Where the Ocean Meets the Sky : Solo Into the Unknown 'Nobody grows old living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.'When Crispin Latymer hit 50 he had a'What now?'moment - and decided he wanted to sail the Atlantic solo. But he was no intrepid adventurer - Latymer was an ordinary sailor, used to cruising the coasts of the UK, who wanted to do something memorable before he was too old.His voyage turned into an epic. Only two days into his trip, Latymer was caught by Tropical Storm Delta. During the following 23 days he also broke two ribs, was followed by pirates in a scary incident off the Mauritanian coast, and then broke a toe. He describes it all as'magical'

Skating

Artistic Impressions : Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to'girls'sport.
Figure Skating This wonderful book will explain how skaters train, and what they do to achieve their fantastic jumps and spins. It will show you what to look for in a performance and profile some of the many figure skaters who have become global celebrities.
Speed Skating This amazing book will explain how the combination of danger and velocity makes speed skating one of the most exciting winter sports. You'll find out how it got started, you'll learn about the different competitions and races, and you'll meet some of the champions who live for speed.

Skiing

Alpine and Freestyle Skiing Alpine skiing has been an exciting Olympic sport since 1924. Racing down snow-covered slopes at breathtaking speed requires outstanding athletic skill. Freestyle skiing combines speed, agility, and precision. This introductory guide gives an overview of all the Olympic events in both sports, along with fun facts, amazing stats, and a look at some of the most outstanding competitors.
Science and Skiing The first International Congress on Science and Skiing was held in Austria in January 1996. The main aim of the conference was to bring together original key research in this area and provid an essential update for those in the field. The lnk between theory and practice was also addressed, making the research more applicable for both researchers and coaches.

Soccer (Football)

African Soccerscapes : How a Continent Changed the World's Game From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity. African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms.
Beyond Bend It Like Beckham : The Global Phenomenon of Women's Soccer Beyond “Bend It Like Beckham” presents the first in-depth global analysis of the women's game—both where it has come from and where it is headed. With commentary from key players, coaches, and administrators,
Brazil's Dance with the Devil : The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
The leading US commentator on the politics of sports explores the coming World Cup and beyond.
Careers in Soccer : Player, Coach, Referee, Administration
Inverting The Pyramid : The History of Soccer Tactics Inverting the Pyramid has been called the Big Daddy” (Zonal Marking) of soccer tactics books; it is essential for any coach, fan, player, or fantasy manager of the beautiful game
Long-Range Goals : The Success Story of Major League Soccer
Myths and Facts About Football : The Economics and Psychology of the World's Greatest Sport This book presents accounts of economic and psychological analyses of association football (or “soccer” as it is popularly known in the USA). A
National Pastime : How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer This is the first in-depth, cross-cultural comparison of these two great pastimes and the megabusinesses that they have become. In National Pastime, Stefan Szymanski and Andrew Zimbalist illustrate how the different traditions of each sport have generated different possibilities for their commercial organization and exploitation
Offside : Soccer and American Exceptionalism Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of the world ignore American sports in return? Offside is the first book to explain these peculiarities
Soccer Against the Enemy : How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Stops Wars, Fuels Revolutions, and Keeps Dictators in Power Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. The result is one of the world's most acclaimed books on the game, and an astonishing study of soccer and its place in the world.
Soccer Stories : Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats
The American Soccer Guide
The Complete Guide to Soccer Fitness and Injury Prevention : A Handbook for Players, Parents, and Coaches This comprehensive guide to health and fitness for soccer players offers expert advice for soccer teams at all levels. With decades of combined experience treating and training elite soccer players, exercise physiologist Donald Kirkendall and orthopedic specialist William E. Garrett Jr. present complex issues in an easy-to-understand format.
The Game of Our Lives : The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of contemporary Britain through the lens of soccer. In the last two decades soccer in the United Kingdom has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very center of British popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world
The Soccer Diaries : An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game Agovino's love affair with soccer is a portrait of the game's culture and an intimate history of the sport's coming of age in the United States.Agovino's quest takes him from the unkempt field in the Bronx where he taught himself to play to some of the sport's most storied venues and historic matches.

Sports Fans

15 Sports Myths and Why They’re Wrong In 15 Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust some of the most widespread urban legends about college and professional athletics.
Leveling the Playing Field
Power Play : Sport, the Media and Popular Culture For those interested in media and sport the second edition combines new and original material with an overview of the developing field of media sport, and examines the way in which the media has increasingly come to dominate how sport is played, organized and thought about in society.
Rooting for the Home Team Some of the wide-ranging essays point out that financial interests also play a significant role in encouraging fan bases, and modern media have made every seasonal sport into yearlong obsessions. Celebrities show up for big games, politicians throw out first pitches, and taxpayers pay plenty for new stadiums and arenas. The essays in Rooting for the Home Team cover a range of professional and amateur athletics, including teams in basketball, football, baseball, and even the phenomenon of no-glove softball.
Soldier Field : A Stadium and Its City Sports fans nationwide know Soldier Field as the home of the Chicago Bears. For decades its signature columns provided an iconic backdrop for gridiron matches. But few realize that the stadium has been much more than that. Soldier Field: A Stadium and Its City explores how this amphitheater evolved from a public war memorial into a majestic arena that helped define Chicago.
Sport Matters : Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports In Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports, Shropshire examines the need for diversity, inclusion, respect, and equality in sports, focusing on the need for leadership to embrace and deliver these principles in a real and tangible way within the sports industry. He also introduces the Sports Power Matrix, a framework for understanding power within the sports industry.

Track & Field

Galloway's Marathon FAQ : Over 100 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions This book has the direct answers to the most frequently asked questions about training for and running a marathon. Author Jeff Galloway knows these questions well, he averages answering over 100 questions a day. Over a million runners have received individual coaching, attended a Galloway running school or retreat, read his books or joined one of his training programs.
Greek Athletics in the Roman World : Victory and Virtue This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources.
Personal Record : A Love Affair with Running
Race Against Me : My Story

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