Its Not Just A Game
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Author | : Chuck Korr |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1429922761 |
Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer. In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked beatings and food deprivation by repeating their request for three years. Finally granted this right, the prisoners banded together to form a multi-tiered, pro-level league that ran for more than two decades and served as an impassioned symbol of resistance against apartheid. Former Robben Island inmate Nelson Mandela noted in the documentary FIFA: 90 Minutes for Mandela, "Soccer is more than just a game.... The energy, passion, and dedication this game created made us feel alive and triumphant despite the situation we found ourselves in."
Author | : Julia Cook |
Publisher | : National Center for Youth Issues |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2013-09-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1937870936 |
"But Mom, it's just a game." Meet Jasper! A young boy who is totally absorbed with playing video games... "With my game controller in my hands, I'm the boss of my whole world! I can be who I want and do as I please. I can get the highest score. I get all the chances that I need. If I make a mistake it's ok. Everyone thinks I'm 'it on a stick!' And the bad stuff all goes away." Video game addiction is on the rise, but it can be prevented. This creative story book teaches both kids and adults how to switch out their game controller for a "life controller." Video gaming is becoming a part of our culture, and we must be strategic in creating a healthy gaming balance.
Author | : Madison Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780807552711 |
A look at how Black players came to shine on the basketball court.
Author | : Oliver Roeder |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324003782 |
A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Author | : Coach Bobby Nicholds |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2011-01-26 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 142695557X |
This book is written to tell people that Little League Baseball is more than just a game. In my 36 years of being in Little League Baseball, Ive seen just about everything. Ive seen the way some coaches teach their players to win a game. As Little League coaches, umpires, and officials, we should always be building good relationships with the players, their families, and all other people who are involved. The important thing is to teach the players the values of sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play.
Author | : Robert F. Burk |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2001-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780807849613 |
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk d
Author | : Kathryn Jay |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2004-06-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 023150070X |
More Than Just a Game tracks the explosion of the sports industry in the United States since 1945 and how it has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. By examining both professional and intercollegiate sports such as baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, and stock car racing, Kathryn Jay looks at the impact of packaging, salary, hype, corporate sponsorship, drug use, and the presence of women and African American players. Jay also considers the persistent belief that sports encourage good citizenship and morality despite a rise in cheating and violent behavior and an unabashed emphasis on financial gain. More Than Just a Game is a fascinating exploration of a phenomenon that has engaged the American imagination and thrilled fans for decades.
Author | : Eric Crookshank |
Publisher | : Nimbus Publishing (CN) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781551099590 |
Where I am today all started from the bottom. I want to tell the story of my journey from there to here.Refusing to become a victim of his circumstances, Eric Crookshank went from a child counting his father's drug money to a university graduate with a degree in business administration; from a benched teenager with dreams of conquering the basketball court to the captain of the National Basketball League of Canada's Halifax Rainmen.Eric Crookshank has become a role model to a new generation of basketball players, both on and off the court. In this powerful story, Crookshank invites us to experience the highs and lows of his life so far as he overcomes adversity and grows into a leader.--Alison Jenkins
Author | : Kent Babb |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476778973 |
Allen Iverson transcended race, celebrity, and pop culture and emerged from a troubled past to become one of the most successful and highly compensated athletes in the world. Babb examines what drove his successes and failures, getting behind the familiar, sanitized, and heroic version of Iverson-- the hard-charging, hard-partying athlete who played every game as if it were his last. He brings to life a private, loyal, and often generous Allen Iverson who rarely made the headlines, revealing the back story behind some of Iverson's most memorable moments, and delves deep to discover where Iverson's demons lurked. Over time, Iverson himself came to believe his own hype: that he lived in a world where celebrity is eternal and riches are everlasting.
Author | : Brian Carriveau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-05 |
Genre | : Minor league baseball |
ISBN | : 9780966681987 |
Meet the people that kindle the flame of baseball as Americas pastime in Its Just a Game.