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All teams want to win, but rivals play each other with extra toughness, year after year. The rivalry between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens is one of the most epic
in all of sports. Learn about battles on ice between these two great NHL teams over the past 100 years.
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The true story of how professional Australian Rules Football found an unlikely new source of talent in the United States.
Though most Americans automatically think "rugby" when they hear or read the phrase "Australian football," the two sports actually have very little in common besides tackling and kicking. "Footy," as this unique sport is known in Aussie circles, bears more resemblance to American athletics, requiring the skill and grace of basketball...
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The 1988 cult classic behind football's data analytics revolution, now back in print with a new foreword and preface.
Data analytics have revolutionized football. With play sheets informed by advanced statistical analysis, today's coaches pass more, kick less, and go for more two-point or fourth-down conversions than ever before. In 1988, sportswriters Bob Carroll, Pete Palmer, and John Thorn proposed just this style of play in The Hidden Game of...
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At 14, Boyd's life goes the way of his hair-down the drain. His father leaves and Boyd's curly brown mop follows. Now he wants out, too.Things seem to improve when he starts playing basketball. His unusual interest in the inspirational sayings of Friedrich Nietzsche is kindled further when he decides his new coach actually represents them. Boyd tries his hardest to win his coach and teammates over, but his misguided attempts alienate more people than...
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If you ever wanted to become an elite shot maker, Anatomy of a Shooting Guard is the tool you need. Detailed workouts with links to video demo's that help you to get game like reps up with or without a trainer. Elite shot makers are made not born. Let Coach Scott of The Lab Elite Training guide you to becoming a true shooting guard on any level.
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Elgin Baylor’s memoir of an epic all-star career in the NBA—during which he transformed basketball from a horizontal game to a vertical one—and his fights against racism during his career as a player and as general manager of the LA Clippers under the infamous Donald Sterling
People think of Elgin Baylor as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game—and one of the NBA’s first black...
People think of Elgin Baylor as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game—and one of the NBA’s first black...
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After 52 long years, the city of Cleveland finally has a new championship team, thanks to LeBron James and his Cavaliers. Scott Raab-Cleveland super-fan-has suffered for every one of those five decades of drought. In the tradition of Frederick Exley's cult-classic sports book A Fan's Notes, The Whore of Akron is Raab's hilarious and unhinged plea for deliverance from all those years of pain. Traveling from Cleveland to Miami and back again, Raab heads...
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An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina's and Duke's basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the South
The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders,...
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Bring a family of four to an NBA game today, and it costs around $500 to watch a bunch of seven-footers take bad shots. Perhaps the quote often attributed to P.T. Barnum is true-there really is a sucker born every minute.
The NBA is in trouble. And as NBA agent Keith Glass describes it-he's part of the problem! If team owners are willing to throw millions of dollars his way for marginal players, why should he be the only one with the self-restraint...
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In this candid autobiography, Syracuse head coach and long time college basketball fixture Jim Boeheim reflects on his life, his teachers, and the game he loves.
Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as a freshman in 1963 . . . and never walked off. A man who has been written off at various stages of his career and criticized for being disagreeable, Boeheim has experienced it all-triumph, despair, redemption; controversy,...
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Before Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Julius Erving, or Michael Jordan––before Magic Johnson and Showtime––the Harlem Globetrotters revolutionized basketball and spread the game around the world. In Spinning the Globe, author Ben Green tells the story of this extraordinary franchise and iconic American institution. We follow the Globetrotters' rise from backwoods obscurity during the harsh years of the Great Depression to become the best...
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"If I had a chance to return to Cleveland, and those fans welcomed me back, that'd be a great story." -LeBron James in 2010, days after "The Decision"
You're Welcome, Cleveland is Scott Raab's big-hearted companion to his darkly comic "sports-jeremiad-slash-memoir" The Whore of Akron and follows the first two years of LeBron James's return to Cleveland. Everybody just loves a good story of forgiveness-especially when you fulfill your promise and...
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