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Author : Howard Blatt
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438142173
A biography of the tough-talking point guard for the Seattle Sonics who was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 1996.
Author : Ross Bernstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766013308
Profiles the personal life and professional career of the guard for the Seattle Supersonics, Gary Payton.
Author : David Shields
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307767103
The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans--including especially himself--think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies. During the 1994-95 NBA season, Shields went to the Seattle SuperSonics' home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to talk, to players, coaches, and agents; attended charity events; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the Web. He kept a journal and over the next few years transformed that journal into this book, which is focused sharply on white spectators' relationship to black athletes, in particular Shields' own identification with Gary Payton, the team's language-besotted point-guard. Through the apparently simple vehicle of a daily diary running from November 5, 1994 to May 5, 1995, and ranging from a dispute between two fans over the sale of a ticket to the national media frenzy surrounding Charles Barkley's jest "That's why I hate white people," David Shields confronts the nature of racism (including his own)--the otherness in ourselves that we project onto strangers. He takes us via sports passion deep into the American racial divide. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781683584407
Part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the most unusual and thorough compendium of basketball stats and facts ever assembled! Did you know that Wilt Chamberlain and Wes Unseld are the only two players in basketball history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards in the same season? Or that Mark Jackson had more than 10,000 assists in his career, but is not in the Hall of Fame? How about that Kevin Love has the longest consecutive streak of double-doubles, with 53? Inspired by The Baseball Maniac’s Almanac—first created by legendary sportswriter Bert Randolph Sugar—The Basketball Maniac’s Almanac includes thousands of fascinating lists, tables, data, and stimulating facts never before compiled in one place! Inside, you’ll find all of the big name basketball heroes like Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, LeBron James, Rick Barry, Kevin Durant, Jerry West, Ray Allen, Kobe Bryant, and a lot of information that will be new to even the most devoted fans: Hall of Famers drafted #1 overall Points leaders by state of birth Most blocked shots by players under six-feet tall Career leaders in four-points plays Oldest player selected to an All-Star Game Players with career Quadruple-Doubles Former ABA players leading the NBA in 3-pointers Most career technical fouls Fathers and sons both drafted in the first round Coaches winning Coach of the Year award and championship in the same season And so much more! Not just a collection of facts or records, this is a book of glorious fun that will astound even the most bookish basketball fan. Read up and amaze your friends, family, and anyone who loves the game of basketball!
Author : Debbie Elicksen
Publisher : Calgary : Freelance Communications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0973023732
Positive Sports: Professional athletes and mentoring youth shows the giving side of professional sports and how it leaves a lasting impact on our communities. It talks about the impact of sport--how it benefits youth and challenges at the grassroots level. Featured are examples of individuals inspired by sport, league-driven community programs, and professional sports role models such as--Paul Kariya, Jarome Iginla, Vince Carter, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Lawrence Funderburke, Doug Gilmour, and many more.
Author : Andrew J. Butrica
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801881343
Winner of the Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis given by the National Council on Public History While the glories and tragedies of the space shuttle make headlines and move the nation, the story of the shuttle forms an inseparabe part of a lesser-known but no less important drama—the search for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket. Here an award-winning student of space science, Andrew J. Butrica, examines the long and tangled history of this ambitious concept, from it first glimmerings in the 1920s, when technicians dismissed it as unfeasible, to its highly expensive heyday in the midst of the Cold War, when conservative-backed government programs struggled to produce an operational flight vehicle. Butrica finds a blending of far-sighted engineering and heavy-handed politics. To the first and oldest idea—that of the reusable rocket-powered single-stage-to-orbit vehicle—planners who belonged to what President Eisenhower referred to as the military-industrial complex.added experimental ("X"), "aircraft-like" capabilties and, eventually, a "faster, cheaper, smaller" managerial approach. Single Stage to Orbit traces the interplay of technology, corporate interest, and politics, a combination that well served the conservative space agenda and ultimately triumphed—not in the realization of inexpensive, reliable space transport—but in a vision of space militarization and commercialization that would appear settled United States policy in the early twenty-first century.
Author : Donald Hubbard
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623683078
Whether heard inside the Boston Celtics locker room or on the basketball court, conversations from the long history of the beloved team are recorded in this unique collection of insider accounts. Fans get a behind-the-scenes peek into the private world of the players, coaches, broadcasters, and executives through firsthand anecdotes, quotes from speeches, and highlights of how the team handled both their struggles and their victories. From the 1950s and 1960s dynasty to the years of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish, and from the 2008 Championship title to today, these are the stories that fans hope to hear, presented together in this fun glimpse of what it was like to be among the Celtics greats.
Author : Gary Payton
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781461734345
A heartfelt message from one of the NBA's most valuable players, Confidence Counts inspires kids to believe in themselves and to strive for success in all they do.
Author : Jeremy Harrow
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404213856
Describes the history, key people, teams, important games, and mascots of the Pac-10 Conference of NCAA basketball.
Author : Will Graves
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629684574
Some of basketball's biggest names happen to be the NBA's greatest guards: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade just to name a few! Basketball fans will love Spotlight stats and informative boxes for each player. Not to mention great full-color and historic action photographs. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1784 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : George Karl,Don Yaeger
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466882775
Look back at the early coaching career of Hall of Famer George Karl, former head coach of the Seattle Supersonics, and one of the most outspoken men in professional basketball. Opinionated and always passionate about the sport, Karl cuts loose with controversial views on the NBA, the players, the media, sports agents, and the many other elements that make the game great--and sometimes screw it up... in This Game's the Best! So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?
Author : Noah Cohan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496216199
Sports fandom—often more than religious, political, or regional affiliation—determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative entertainments rather than merely competitive displays. While it may seem that sports narratives are “written” by athletes and journalists, Cohan demonstrates that fans are not passive consumers but rather function as readers and writers who appropriate those narratives and generate their own stories in building their sense of identity. Critically reading stories of sports fans’ self-definition across genres, from the novel and the memoir to the film and the blog post, We Average Unbeautiful Watchers recovers sports games as sites where fan-authors theorize interpretation, historicity, and narrative itself. Fan stories demonstrate how unscripted sporting entertainments function as identity-building narratives—which, in turn, enhances our understanding of the way we incorporate a broad range of texts into our own life stories. Building on the work of sports historians, theorists of fan behavior, and critics of American literature, Cohan shows that humanistic methods are urgently needed for developing nuanced critical conversations about athletics. Sports take shape as stories, and it is scholars in the humanities who can best identify how they do so—and why that matters for American culture more broadly.
Author : Bill Simmons
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780345520104
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1473 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
