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Author | : Ken Rappoport |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 161783923X |
Sports are unpredictable. They?re wacky. They can be totally off-the-wall! This title highlights some of the most memorable tales and traditions from sports history and is brought to life with exciting detail. Informative sidebars offer even more stories. You can also find a glossary, additional resources, and more! This title is a must-read for any sports fan. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Author | : Ray Sanchez |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : African American basketball players |
ISBN | : 0595378722 |
Describes how the Texas Western College Miner basketball team, led by Don Haskins, won the NCAA championship in 1966.
Author | : Barry Wilner |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680772694 |
This title explores the most shocking upsets in sports history, from Super Bowl stunners to unexpected Olympics heroics. The title also features informative sidebars, a glossary, and further resources. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
Author | : Heather Rule |
Publisher | : Lerner Publications (Tm) |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541577124 |
This title offers high-interest subject matter sure to catch the attention of sports fans and reluctant readers alike.
Author | : Lew Freedman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1440835756 |
This engaging and informative work highlights the 100 biggest moments in the history of American sports, illustrating powerful connections between sporting events and significant social issues of the time. In this homage to sports history, author Lew Freedman compiles athletic feats that caught fans off guard, inspired awe, and left viewers on the edge of their seats, all while making an impression on the world at large. Freedman ranks 100 of the greatest moments in sports, reflecting on the dramatic impact of the events as well as their greater influence on American society of the time. The work showcases the social, historical, and cultural background of memorable games, teams, and athletes, highlighting the enduring value and importance of each selection. An introduction discusses the history of sports and explains the criteria for choosing the 100 sporting events in the book. Fascinating, little-known facts punctuate entries, such as how the athletic accomplishments of Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis helped ease racial tensions in the United States; why the passage of Title IX changed gender relations in the United States forever; and which technologies have altered the way Americans view sport. Content also traces the tremendous advancements of safety gear in sports, from the batting helmet and catchers' shin guards in baseball, to the hardshell helmet and face guard in football, to the face mask for goalies in hockey.
Author | : Len Berman |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1402220995 |
A fun and memorable read for parents and children alike, The Greatest Moments in Sports serves as the perfect introduction to the world of sports.
Author | : David Owen |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1408154757 |
The remarkable true story of the most exciting upset in Grand National history
Author | : Mike McGovern |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2001-09-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780028639635 |
For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.
Author | : Samantha N. Sheppard |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0520307798 |
Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only “skin in the game,” or how racial representation shapes the genre’s imagery, but also “skin in the genre,” or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre’s modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain “critical muscle memories”: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film’s plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.
Author | : Jack Danilewicz |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1496218671 |
No one had really heard of Chaminade University--a tiny NAIA Catholic school in Honolulu with fewer than eight hundred undergraduates--until its basketball game against the University of Virginia on December 23, 1982. The Chaminade Silverswords defeated the Cavaliers, then the Division I, No. 1-ranked team in the nation, in what the Washington Post later called "the biggest upset in the history of college basketball." Virginia was the most heralded team in the country, led by seven?foot?four?inch, three?time College Basketball Player of the Year Ralph Sampson. They had just been paid $50,000--more than double Chaminade's annual basketball budget--to play an early season tournament in Tokyo and were making a "stopover" game in Hawaii on their way back to the mainland. The Silverswords, led by forward Tony Randolph, came back in the second half and won the game 77-72. Chaminade's incredible victory became known as the "Miracle on Ward Avenue" or simply "The Upset" in Hawaii and was featured in the national news. Never before in the history of college basketball had a school moved so dramatically and irretrievably into the nation's consciousness. The Silverswords' victory was more than just an upset; it was something considered impossible. And the team's wins over major college programs continued in the ensuing years. Today Chaminade is still referred to as "The Giant Killers"--the school that beat Ralph Sampson and Virginia. The Greatest Upset Never Seen relives the 1982-83 season, when Chaminade put small?college basketball and Hawaii on the national sports map.