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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
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Description
More than a Game is the odyssey of Jackson's journey-from New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to this year's L.A. Lakers world champion-and the lessons in leadership he learned each step of the way. It is the tale of Rosen's journey as well, carrying the torch for the game of basketball through careers as star college player, CBA coach, and preeminent novelist of the game. It is also the story...
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Language
English
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Description
Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and assistants, three-time New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor takes you behind the Blue...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching basketball at Pennsylvania State University - no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules, examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes, thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. In 2006, student athlete Jennifer Harris, in conjunction with the National Center for Lesbian Rights,...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers traces the life experiences and philosophies that inspired his championship-winning techniques, revealing how he forged successful teams by combining talents and promoting trust.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
60th anniversary ed.; full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Jordan, Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Dr. J, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal are a few of the legendary players whose breathtaking feats are celebrated in this program.
11) Larry Legend
Author
Publisher
Masters Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xxii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
14) Larry Bird
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann's remarkable debut offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality hiding behind the romanticized hoop dreams of America's basketball prodigies.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 187 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Basketball legend Bill Russell pays homage to his mentor and coach, the inimitable Red Auerbach, in this story of an unlikely and enduring friendship set against the backdrop of the greatest basketball dynasty in NBA history. When Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics in 1957 as the nation's first prominent black basketball star, he was not expecting much from his coach. Despite two national college championships and an Olympic gold medal, Russell's...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xviii, 334 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Sons of Westwood tells the story of the most significant college basketball program at a pivotal period in American cultural history. It weaves together a story of sports and politics in an era of social and cultural upheaval, a time when college students and college athletes joined the civil rights movement, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and rejected the dominant Cold War culture. This is the story of America's culture wars played out...
19) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author, tells for the first time her story of victory and resilience, as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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