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Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women’s Basketball
In the decades before the 1972 passage of Title IX, premier women's basketball was played by the teams in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). These teams represented companies such as Cook's Goldblume Beer and Sunoco Oilers or colleges such as Iowa Wesleyan and Wayland Baptist, and, through AAU's international teams, they gained fame abroad but were often anonymous at home. Just for Fun is the history of these all-but-forgotten players and coaches who, while playing for an exuberant love of the game, laid the groundwork for modern women's basketball.
Effective Communication: Coaching Basketball Successfully
Customer Review: "Coaching Basketball Effectively"
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:COACHING BASKETBALL SUCCESSFULLY by Dr.Gil Smith is a compact manual designed for both coaches and athletes. Its initial appearance is enticing and readers do not wonder if they will have time to read it and put it aside for future reading. Compiled in seventy-seven pages, Dr. Smith's book may be read during one sitting, and re-read either in its entirety or with focus on selected information without time-stress. Devoid of wordiness and verbiage, this manual is entirely reader directed.
All information is reinforced at the end of each chapter by Communication Tryouts consisting of five questions that test readers' digestion of main points. These Tryouts may be checked with the author's Answer Keys. Dr. Smith has conveyed information on five major topics: "Coaches Know This," "Basics in Communication," "Clearly Stated (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Messages," "The Learning Process," and "The Coach as Change Agent." To further reinforce content and fix main points, he has included brief descriptions of each chapter.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:COACHING BASKETBALL SUCCESSFULLY by Gil Smith, Ph.D, and contributors Elinor A. Smith,Ph.D, and Michael Sachs,Ph.D, offer a "Must Own" Manual modeled for persons involved in or interested in basketball as coaches or participants.
Sandra E. Bowen
Retired College Professor
Author
North Carolina: 2005 NCAA Men’s Basketball Champions
This new book from The News & Observer takes you game by game through the Tar Heels' incredible season and Coach Roy Williams' first NCAA Championship. North Carolina: 2005 Men's NCAA Champions will be a cherished keepsake that will allow you to relive this special season for years to come.
A dazzling book featuring dozens of stories, columns, and player profiles from the awardwinning team of News & Observer reporters focusing on the championship run.
Loaded with over 100 eye-popping full-color photos from The News & Observer of the Tar Heels and their many all-star personalities in action.
A great way to relive and remember the Tar Heels' incredible season, from fall practice to the incredible Final Four berth and victory in St. Louis!
Customer Review: GREAT Book that discusses the WHOLE 2005-06 TAR HEEL BASKETBALL SEASON!!!
All true Carolina fans should buy this book and read over the games that players such as Sean May, Raymond Felton, and Rashad McCants won to get us to the top of the college basketball world! This book discusses every single game of the 05-06 season in very good detail! It also has player profiles of the players that played at Carolina during that season including Sean May, Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants, and Jawad Williams!
Any Carolina fan should buy this book to read and for great memories of our 5th Championship season at UNC! I hope my review was helpful to you!
Basketballs, goldfish, and world championships
Customer Review: Reviewed for Midwest Book Review
Patsy Neal was three-time AAU All-American and Captain of the 1964 United States team in the World Basketball Tournament. BASKETBALLS, GOLDFISH, AND WORD CHAMPIONSHIPS is autobiographical in nature, leading the reader through Neal's life, from her early childhood in the deep South, to becoming an acclaimed basketball player during the '50's and '60's, and concluding at the point where she lost her amateur status. She is former director of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, TN. The foreword is penned by Pat Summitt, Coach of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) Lady Vols, and points out the vast growth within the sport and its long-sought acknowledgment in today's sports world. This book is chock-full of Neal's witticisms, which makes it fun to read. It also offers much historical information regarding the growth of women's basketball and the changes that have taken place. Neal reveals a fine sense of humor that will leave the reader laughing out loud at some of her statements and stories. Peppered throughout the book are lessons she has learned along the way, which are very amusing. This is a book any reader, sports fan or not, will enjoy, one that will bring forth laughter and a deeper understanding of the advent of women's sports and the remarkable women who paved the way.