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December 31, 2008 at 7:56 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
Customer Review: Removes the mystery from soccer, hockey, etc.
I wish I had had this book during the telecast of the women's soccer championship -- now I know what the commentators should have told me! Bartges's great illustrations and down-to-earth text likewise make the infathomable rules of ice hockey easy to understand -- I can't wait for the season to start so that I can test my newly gained expertise. My wife read the chapter on football and has already watched some exhibition NFL games -- and enjoyed them! With the proliferation of sporting events on television, this book should be sitting beside every TV set.
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December 31, 2008 at 7:20 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Sasha is caught in the middle of the exciting, sexually charged underbelly of professional basketball, the sadness of suicide and constant self-destructive behavior. Follow along as the threads of love, happiness and self-worth are woven together to create the fabric of Threesome
Customer Review: Alright :-l
This is the first book I've read by Brenda L Thomas and I thought it was OK, but I think Eric Jerome Dickey or Zane or Terry McMillan are better writers. This isn't a deep book, but it does have a good story line that I really enjoyed. It is an easy read - two chapters near the beginning are only half a page long. She has a good writing style, but no depth and that's what I thought was lacking.
The story is about Sasha and how she finds herself in several different relationships all with different consequences. Her first partner that we read about, is married and his wife commits suicide in Sashas bedroom. She then finds herself with her boss; a up and coming basketball player with more money than he knows what to do with. Then there is Trent. While she knows he's 'with' someone else (and that someone is carrying his baby) that only makes her want him more. Something about this book draws you in, so I give it four stars for the plot, but it lacks a star because it's not a powerful and intense book like the kinds I like to read.
Customer Review: Sasha's Addiction
First of all I read Brenda L Thomas book "The Velvet Rope" which was a page turner for sure, but when she spoke on Sasha a brief moment in that book I knew I had to meet her. I keep telling myself thoughout this book that this character is 38 yrs old which really threw me off. She had it going on. Her relationships with these men were totally sexual.To think that she didn't have a mother, sounded more like she didn't have a father. Each man wanted her sex and she loved it. Phoenix would be any personnel assistant dream boss. What single women wouldn't fall for him. I knew her and Cole would not last after his wife's suicide. And Trent, well he had his own issues with baby-mamma drama. I personally thought she should have stayed with Phoenix and rode the wave.
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December 30, 2008 at 1:44 am · Filed under Basketball Books
When Angie is told that she plays basketball like a boy she is heart-broken.
She quits her favorite basketball team and dreams of cheerleading instead. But can cheerleading make Angie happy, or is basketball her real love?
It's lucky Angie is more than just a pretty face!
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December 29, 2008 at 5:57 am · Filed under Basketball Books
The ACC, since December 1, 1953, has played over 12,000 basketball games. This reference work contains every game ever played by Duke University. In addition to box scores and tournament statistics, in each season, the notable events, achievements and top players are given.
For information on all schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference through 2006, please see this book's parent 3 volume set, Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Games (ISBN 9780786429370).
In addition, individual volumes are available for each school: Clemson (9780786432653), North Carolina (9780786432660), North Carolina State (9780786432677), Wake Forest (9780786432684), Georgia Tech (9780786432721), Maryland (9780786432707), and Virginia (9780786432714).
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December 27, 2008 at 3:21 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
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December 27, 2008 at 9:25 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Customer Review: Superb
This book by pete newell is excellen
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December 26, 2008 at 8:31 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Why does she play basketball? Since the enactment of Title IX in 1972, that question has come to be asked of more girls and women—and answered in more ways—than ever before. Christine A. Baker, herself an avid player and an assistant coach, pursues an answer through the ranks of the sport from youth basketball to the WNBA.
Baker sets the stage with a quick look at current statistics and trends in women’s basketball nationwide, noting the profound changes in the last thirty-five years. A series of exclusive interviews then takes us into the heart and soul of the sport. Her subjects are players and coaches, from neophytes to stars such as Dawn Staley and Nancy Lieberman; from legendary coaches such as Jody Conradt to the masterminds of USA Basketball and the 1996 Women’s Dream Team; from Donna Lopiano, former CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation, to tomorrow’s Olympic athletes. A richly detailed, all-encompassing portrait of the sport, these interviews offer a wealth of insight into the game, American sports culture, and, indeed, why Baker plays.
(10/25/2007)
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December 25, 2008 at 2:48 am · Filed under Basketball Books
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December 23, 2008 at 9:06 pm · Filed under Basketball Books
In the winter of 1892 the new instructor of physical training at Smith College, a diminutive young woman with a heavy accent, ntroduced her students to an adaptation of James Naismith's new game of Basket Ball. An immediate if unexpected success, the game spread to other women's schools across the country, and soon its founder, Senda Berenson (1868-1954), was called upon to codify its distinctive set of gender-specific rules. Emphasizing team passing and position over ndividual play, the version she instituted defined women's basketball for seventy years and eventually earned her the honor of being the first female elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Yet as Ralph Melnick points out, Berenson's pioneering role in the history of women's athletics was more a matter of accident than destiny. A Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, prone to ill health throughout her childhood, she enrolled in the Boston Normal School for Gymnastics in the fall of 1890 with the hope of strengthening herself so that she could pursue a career as a pianist, dancer, or painter. Instead she soon became both a practitioner and a proponent of a new approach to women's physical education, one aimed at providing a "natural outlet of the play instinct," developing "endurance and physical courage"as well as "quickness of thought and action," and promoting through teamwork the "power of organization" women needed to achieve full social equality.
Extending her work into the factories and blighted urban tenements of America, Berenson later won the recognition of Jane Addams, Margaret Sanger, and other progressive reformers. Believing that "Americans have forgotten how to play," she wanted to teach others to live "joyfully-beautifully." For Berenson, the physical culture of exercise and games, played not for competition but for personal and social development as well as sheer enjoyment, was but another form of art.
This convergence of athletics and aesthetics was hardly surprising, Melnick explains, because the single most important influence on Senda Berenson's life was her brother, the renowned art critic and connoisseur Bernard Berenson. The two siblings wrote frequently to each other over the course of their lives, and the author draws heavily on their correspondence throughout the book to create an intimate and insightful portrait of a remarkable American woman.
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December 23, 2008 at 10:52 am · Filed under Basketball Books
Smith was a brilliant basketball innovator and motivator, and more than 96 percent of his letterman earned their degrees.
Customer Review: Dean Smith - A Blueprint for Leading Your Life!
Dean was an unbelievable coach who was able to participate in an incredibly competitive arena, yet make consistent decisions with his values and beliefs, never compromising those ideals, even in the heat of battle. The way he created the Carolina family, always remembering everybody who ever played, managed and worked with the team is truly amazing. Keep this book by your bedside and refer to it often.
Customer Review: Dean is surprisingly quotable
I like this new book about Dean Smith a lot. Smith was famous in his press conferences for rambling on and on and not saying much of anything quotable, but the author (David Scott) has painstakingly culled Smith down to a point where the excellent coach sounds funnier, blunter and more insightful than he is often given credit for. This book would be a superb addition to a Carolina fan's library, and Lord knows there are a few of them out there.
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