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Publisher
Sports Illustrated Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A richly illustrated survey of American college football captures some of the most memorable moments and athletes in the history of the sport in compelling action photographs, biographical profiles, statistics, and essays from the pages of Sports Illustrated.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Abel's field (2012, 104 min.): Let motherless by tragedy and abandoned by his father, high school senior Seth McArdle is under enormous pressure to support his little sisters. At school, he endures the daily bullying of the football team. When he fights back, he's assigned to an after-school work detail under the supervision of Abel, a reserved groundskeeper. As dark times lure Seth towards desperate measures, the reluctant Abel may be the one person...
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Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Highlights the lives and careers of ten winners of the Heisman trophy: Marcus Allen, Tim Brown, Ernie Davis, Tony Dorsett, Doug Flutie, Eddie George, Archie Griffin, Paul Hornung, Barry Sanders, and Roger Staubach.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The life of a student athlete competing in the NCAA is a lifestyle that is glorified by many, but only truly known by few. On the surface, the life of a student athlete may look easy, but underneath the exterior many tough and demanding experiences are endured. Although some will get the opportunity to play professionally in their respective sports, the reality is that 98% of student athletes who graduate from these prestigious institutions will...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its "student-athletes" while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out because their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook,"--Amazon.com....
51) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who...
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Any college football fan, no matter where they live now or where their college loyalty lies has opinions about the game. Now, SI's team of experts once and for all settles the questions college football fans have debated since the first kickoff in College Football's Greatest. For instance, which is the greatest program of all time, Alabama or Notre Dame? What about Ohio State? Where do Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning rank among the best college quarterbacks?...
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Publisher
Brookings Institution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A critical look at the tension between the larger role of the university and the commercialization of college sports. Unwinding Madness is the most comprehensive examination to date of how the NCAA has lost its way in the governance of intercollegiate athletics--and why it is incapable of achieving reform and must be replaced. The NCAA has placed commercial success above its responsibilities to protect the academic primacy, health and well-being of...