Last King Of The Sports Page

Author : Ted Geltner
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826272737

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Last King of the Sports Page by Ted Geltner Pdf

Part crusader, part comedian, Jim Murray was a once-in-a-generation literary talent who just happened to ply his trade on newsprint, right near the box scores and race results. During his lifetime, Murray rose through the ranks of journalism, from hard-bitten 1940s crime reporter, to national Hollywood correspondent, to the top sports columnist in the United States. In Last King of the Sports Page: The Life and Career of Jim Murray, Ted Geltner chronicles Jim Murray’s experiences with twentieth-century American sports, culture, and journalism. At the peak of his influence, Murray was published in more than 200 newspapers. From 1961 to 1998, Murray penned more than 10,000 columns from his home base at the Los Angeles Times. His offbeat humor and unique insight made his column a must-read for millions of sports fans. He was named Sportswriter of the Year an astounding fourteen times, and his legacy was cemented when he became one of only four writers to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sports. Geltner now gives readers a first look at Murray’s personal archives and dozens of fresh interviews with sports and journalism personalities, including Arnold Palmer, Mario Andretti, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yogi Berra, Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Dan Jenkins, Roy Firestone, and many more. Throughout his life, Murray chronicled seminal events and figures in American culture and history, and this biography details his encounters with major figures such as William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods. Charming and affecting moments in Murray’s career illustrate the sportswriter’s knack for being in on the big story. Richard Nixon, running for vice president on the Eisenhower ticket in 1952, revealed to Murray the contents of the “Checkers” speech so it could make the Time magazine press deadline. Media mogul Henry Luce handpicked Murray to lead a team that would develop Sports Illustrated for Time/Life in 1953, and when terrorists stormed the Olympic village at the 1972 Munich games, Murray was one of the first journalists to report from the scene. The words of sports journalist Roy Firestone emphasize the influence and importance of Jim Murray on journalism today: “I’ll say without question, I think Jim Murray was every bit as important of a sports writer—forget sport writer—every bit as important a writer to newspapers, as Mark Twain was to literature.” Readers will be entertained and awed by the stories, interviews, and papers of Jim Murray in Last King of the Sports Page.

Author : Patrick S. Washburn,Chris Lamb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781496221919

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Sports Journalism by Patrick S. Washburn,Chris Lamb Pdf

Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated. One of the influential factors in sports coverage is the upswing in the number of women sports reporters in the last forty years. Sports Journalism also examines the ethics of sports journalism, how sports coverage frequently has differed from that of non-sports news, and how the internet has spawned a set of new ethical issues.

Author : Wayne Wilson,David K. Wiggins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756297

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LA Sports by Wayne Wilson,David K. Wiggins Pdf

LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.

Author : Nichelle D. Tramble
Publisher : One World/Strivers Row
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307536594

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The Last King by Nichelle D. Tramble Pdf

“After two years of drifting I finally knew there was only one place that could offer me a shot at peace, and that was my hometown. The city was my crossroads, the crooked man with the slanted grin, my temptation, and I wanted to beat it. I wanted to win. . . .” Two years after leaving Oakland, Maceo Redfield returns to the city, where NBA All-Star Cornelius “Cotton” Knox has become tangled up in the murder of a local call girl. What could easily become a story for the tabloids turns personal when Maceo realizes that his estranged friend Holly Ford has also been linked to the crime. Maceo’s guilt at disappearing, coupled with a heartfelt plea for help from his Aunt Cissy, becomes a potent combination for a man seeking redemption. Taking it upon himself to clear his friend, Maceo stays one step ahead of the police as he traverses the dark corners of the San Francisco Bay Area. And in his quest for the truth, Maceo teams with a sultry con artist named Sonny Boston, “an eight-cylinder chick with bodies in her past.” While navigating the shifting alliances of a territory war, Maceo must also fight off an unseen enemy, a ruthless man with connections to Oakland, who came to town with two things in mind: destroying Holly and eliminating anybody who gets in his way.

Author : William E. Dow,Roberta S. Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315525990

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The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism by William E. Dow,Roberta S. Maguire Pdf

Taking a thematic approach, this new companion provides an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American literary journalism. From the work of Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman to that of Joan Didion and Dorothy Parker, literary journalism is a genre that both reveals and shapes American history and identity. This volume not only calls attention to literary journalism as a distinctive genre but also provides a critical foundation for future scholarship. It brings together cutting-edge research from literary journalism scholars, examining historical perspectives; themes, venues, and genres across time; theoretical approaches and disciplinary intersections; and new directions for scholarly inquiry. Provoking reconsideration and inquiry, while providing new historical interpretations, this companion recognizes, interacts with, and honors the tradition and legacies of American literary journalism scholarship. Engaging the work of disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, African American studies, gender studies, visual studies, media studies, and American studies, in addition to journalism and literary studies, this book is perfect for students and scholars of those disciplines.

Author : Art Garner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781250017789

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Black Noon: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 by Art Garner Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Dean Batchelor Award, Motor Press Guild "Book of the Year" Before noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 was stopped for the first time in history by an accident. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery wreck, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. Black Noon chronicles one of the darkest and most important days in auto-racing history. As rookie Dave MacDonald came out of the fourth turn and onto the front stretch at the end of the second lap, he found his rear-engine car lifted by the turbulence kicked up from two cars he was attempting to pass. With limited steering input, MacDonald lost control of his car and careened off the inside wall of the track, exploding into a huge fireball and sliding back into oncoming traffic. Closing fast was affable fan favorite Eddie Sachs. "The Clown Prince of Racing" hit MacDonald's sliding car broadside, setting off a second explosion that killed Sachs instantly. MacDonald, pulled from the wreckage, died two hours later. After the track was cleared and the race restarted, it was legend A. J. Foyt who raced to a decisive, if hollow, victory. Torn between elation and horror, Foyt, along with others, championed stricter safety regulations, including mandatory pit stops, limiting the amount a fuel a car could carry, and minimum-weight standards. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner brings to life the bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard. Drawing from interviews, Garner expertly reconstructs the fateful events and decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day, and the incriminating aftermath that forever altered the sport. Black Noon remembers the race that changed everything and the men that paved the way for the Golden Age of Indy car racing.

Author : Terry Lovell
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : 9781844548262

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Bernie Ecclestone by Terry Lovell Pdf

Car racing.

Author : Curtis Carter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781413474305

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The Road to the NBA by Curtis Carter Pdf

THE ROAD TO THE NBA is a book about heart, drive and internal motivation, when going the standard route is unavailable. It captures and conveys the experiences of one man's unwavering ability to pursue his dream of playing in the NBA, despite being faced with adversity and disappointment, both on and off the court. THE ROAD TO THE NBA is captivating, informative and heart wrenching. It encourages the reader to "never give up" on their own dreams, whatever they may be. The example of how to get back up and brush yourself off, each and every time you're knocked down, disappointed, disenfranchised and/or disqualified, is demonstrated on the pages of this must read. THE ROAD TO THE NBA is intended to create, in the lives of each and every person who reads it, the same spirit of hope, strength and motivation found in its pages. It is the Author's desire that you the reader catch hold of that spirit. Quite frankly this book is absolutely Fabulous! There is no book like it in all of professional basketball. Once you start reading it you will never want to stop. This is as intellectual, emotional, motivational, and triumphant as it get´s in the game of life. The book is amazing! And very thought provoking. The reality kept me glued to the pages. I highly recommend this book. -Charmane Townsell, Sheriff´s Depart. Employee. Educational, Refreshing, and Bones Reality! -Paul Higgins, Award Winning T.V. Producer. I can see what a tough life is, to search a dream or just to survive. I am very glad for you. You are an example of Determination. -Eneko Herreros, Pro Basketball Coach, Spain

Author : Gregg Easterbrook
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781250011725

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The King of Sports by Gregg Easterbrook Pdf

Gridiron football is the king of sports – it's the biggest game in the strongest and richest country in the world. In The King of Sports, Easterbrook tells the full story of how football became so deeply ingrained in American culture. Both good and bad, he examines its impact on American society. The King of Sports explores these and many other topics: * The real harm done by concussions (it's not to NFL players). * The real way in which college football players are exploited (it's not by not being paid). * The way football helps American colleges (it's not bowl revenue) and American cities (it's not Super Bowl wins). * What happens to players who are used up and thrown away (it's not pretty). * The hidden scandal of the NFL (it's worse than you think). Using his year-long exclusive insider access to the Virginia Tech football program, where Frank Beamer has compiled the most victories of any active NFL or major-college head coach while also graduating players, Easterbrook shows how one big university "does football right." Then he reports on what's wrong with football at the youth, high school, college and professional levels. Easterbrook holds up examples of coaches and programs who put the athletes first and still win; he presents solutions to these issues and many more, showing a clear path forward for the sport as a whole.

Author : Jean Harris Anderson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781973627203

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Paradox, the Norm by Jean Harris Anderson Pdf

We are pressing beyond the range of human information at blazing speed, and in so doing, we are entering a realm were quite unprepared for. When this books essayist announces a celestial being from a different dominion has arrived to equip us with permission to eat of the fruit, allowing us to become all-knowledgeable, and to offer immortality, everyone is eager, of course. The extraterrestrial alien values the spirit nature as much as we value our flesh, and he prizes each, for he transcends knowledge of those entities, a character gushes. But we shall lose command of our individual freedoms if we forfeit our wits to another, because intelligence is more than gathering lots of data. Filtering information takes time and work to transform into wisdom. The race to control artificial intelligence has made each person a database for a search engine, and our species has mixed with machine. Weve become unknowingly programmed without an ethical compass while some in charge have questionable motives and are involved in moral turpitude. The result? As one character laments, We must break the very laws that make us civil.

Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317595328

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Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society by C. Richard King Pdf

For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect, presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of Asian American athletes, coaches, and teams in North America. The contributors interrogate the sociocultural contexts in which Asian Americans lived and played, detailing the articulations of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of Asian Americans playing sport in North America. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Asian American experience, ethnic relations, and the history of sport.

Author : Cameron W. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578596644

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King of Cheer by Cameron W. Hughes Pdf

Cameron Hughes has ignited crowds at sporting events across the globe for over 25 years. It's a story of getting up, showing up, and never giving up that will move every reader. Let's spread some cheer!

Author : George Caplan
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Physical education and training
ISBN : 9780435465148

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BTEC National Sport by George Caplan Pdf

Matches Edexcel's specification which will apply from September 2007 and includes the core units for the Development, Coaching and Fitness, and Performance and Excellence pathways.

Author : Donald Pomeroy Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Sports
ISBN : WISC:89090115973

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A Study of Newspaper Sports Pages by Donald Pomeroy Roberts Pdf

Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : BNC:1001985138

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The Popular History of England, 3 by Charles Knight Pdf