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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David J Epstein · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 338
Format: Print book |
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Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether... |
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Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
Phil Robertson · Howard Books; Nineteenth Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original Duck Commander and Duck Dynasty® star, from early childhood through the founding of a family business.LIVING THE DREAM Duck calls - though the source of his livelihood - are not what makes... |
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The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
Scott Ellsworth · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover |
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The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental changeIn the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the games... |
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Parcells: A Football Life
Nunyo Demasio · Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover |
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Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated... |
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Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court
Jay Bilas · NAL Hardcover
Format: Hardcover |
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness.If anyone knows tough, its Jay Bilas. A four-year starter at Duke, he learned an incomparable work ethic under coach Mike Krzyzewski, battling against the greatest... |
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Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Pat Head Summitt · Crown Archetype; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.Pat... |
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Facing Wayne Gretzky: Players Recall the Greatest Hockey Player Who Ever Lived
Brian Kennedy (Editor) · Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover |
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Wayne Gretzky holds the records for the most goals, assists, and points scored in a career, in addition to about 60 other records. These feats, in tandem with his exceptional on-ice performances, earned him the nickname “The Great One” as well as the immediate retirement of his number... |
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