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This book details the importance of high school athletics to the student athletes, beyond just the sports experience itself. It argues that the lessons learned, tools acquired, and values instilled have an enduring impact and prepare young athletes for the challenges they will face in life after their formal education is complete.

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This book details the importance of high school athletics to the student athletes, beyond just the sports experience itself. It argues that the lessons learned, tools acquired, and values instilled have an enduring impact and prepare young athletes for the challenges they will face in life after their formal education is complete.

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The two men responsible for Collingwood's recent success dig to the core of what success - in sport and life in general - is all about in an inspirational book that transcends Australian Football.

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Presents the story of Jim Morris' departure from the minor leagues after a string of injuries, his career as a high school physics teacher, and his eventual return to the minors followed by an all-star career in the majors.

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Most troubling of all, however, are the societal problems created by the sports industry, which include racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.

Peter and Laura Finley's comprehensive work confronts the many problems facing athletics today.

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This unique book gives a measure of the direct financial costs and benefits to a city of constructing a sports stadium without injecting biases and values into the situation. Following this are 15 chapters dealing with individual stadium projects.

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Few realize that some sports were integrated, or even dominated by blacks, before becoming dominated by whites, for example, horse racing, golf, hockey, and tennis. To that end, he analyzes various sports and asks why and when has each sport responded differently.

Wigginton asks how did blacks break the color barrier

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This book examines the animosity towards the New York Yankees among fans of Major League Baseball and what that revilement says about the game, its fans, and America itself.

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Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and tennis, had their origins in nineteenth-century Britain. This work offers an account of the role sport played in both Victorian Britain and its empire. It provides details of individual sports and sportsmen.

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A comprehensive history of sport in 19th-century Britain, with the early history of many sports that are now international.

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In each chapter, Professor Yasser prints edited versions of the landmark sports cases, takes an in-depth look at one major legal issue, and provides a broad summary of the law and a bibliography.

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A handbook for those fitness professionals who work with older adults. This practical book covers: the relationship between fitness and ageing - the components of fitness and their use with different age groups; training adults with chronic conditions - the common conditions effecting older adults and the implications for training; and more.

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Each entry provides information on who typically plays the game in that culture, what the object of the game is, what the symbolism behind the game is, the equipment needed to play the game, and the rules for playing it.

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Lawrence, an economist, football fan, and official, is an authoritative and astute critic of what is wrong with football in higher education as regulated by the NCAA.

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Offers 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.

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Why will there never be another Bradman How do you win 33 games in a row Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage Foraying into sport's leftfield, this title intends to ask the questions we rarely ask of our teams and players. It answers questions such as when is cheating really cheating Is the free market good for sport

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An inspiring story by a two-time Edgar Award-winning writer of how a six-man football team united a school and a town

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A textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development. It intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with an understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood.