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A leading psychologist explores the phenomenon of athletes across the sports world who engage in high-risk behavior that often destroys lives, bodies, and reputations.

From sex and drugs to violence, gambling, and wholesale conspiracies, scandals are everywhere in sports.

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Offers an introduction to the many forms that athletics took in the ancient world, and to the sources of evidence by which we can study it. As well as looking at the role of athletics in archaic and classical Greece, this book also covers the periods of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. The different aspects of athletics are also considered.

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A revealing and in-depth look at the classic rivalry between Joe Montana and Steve Young- a competition for the quarterback position that would propel both men to remarkable heights and forge one of the greatest football dynasties of all time

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This volume, the fifth in the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, provides biographical and bibliographical information on 620 distinguished American sports personalities.

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The sixth volume of the Biographical Dictionary of American Sports, this supplement provides biographies for 616 athletes, coaches, managers, officials, administrators, writers, and broadcasters who have played an active role in American sports or helped to promote them.

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In eleven appendices, the editor provides extensive cross-referencing and listings covering sports halls of fame, sports associations, organizations, and leagues, indoor sporting events, sites of Olympic games, indoor sports periodicals, and other topics.

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Choice

The second of four volumes devoted to American sports, this volume presents comprehensive information on college and professional football players, coaches, club executives, league administrators, rule developers, and promoters active in the sport since 1869.

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Each volume contains essays contributed by sports historians, sports writers, journalists, teachers, and publishers. Entries are listed alphabetically within each outdoor sport and cover major individuals from auto racing, golf, harness and thoroughbred racing, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, speed skating, tennis, and track and field.

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Women have made significant strides in the US sports world over the past 30 years, one of which has been moving into the ranks of coaching on both the collegiate and professional levels. This work lists 42 women coaches in the sports world, many of whom had to overcome major obstacles to succeed.

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Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.

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A coach will learn the science of how a player learns and techniques to be used to increase motivation.

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Traces the evolution of college athletes into university employees and describes how the NCAA fashioned an amateur myth to obscure this employer-employee relationship.

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But boxing is not the only combat sport, and mixed martial arts, in all their ferocious beauty, represent the fastest growing sports genre in the world.

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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racis...

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Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racis...

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Analyzes the background and current status of a specific controversy illuminating how the games we play and watch affect, and are affected by, the world beyond the playing fields.

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Schools have everything needed to accomplish great feats via high school sports participation, and now is the time for our educators to be the experts in their field...Crazy-Proofing High School Sports offers real solutions to the real problems hurting high school student athletes.

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