Author: Brandon Terrell
Publisher: Capstone Press
ISBN: 1496697111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
It is the basketball championship game and the reader's choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss.
Game Day Basketball
Author: Brandon Terrell
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1398215856
Category : Basketball
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Time to hit the court! Your basketball team has made it all the way to the championship game. Your choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss. Will you take the shot or pass it to your teammate? Will you foul your opponent or let him go to the hoop? The pressure is on. Do you have what it takes to lead your team to the big win?
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 1398215856
Category : Basketball
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Time to hit the court! Your basketball team has made it all the way to the championship game. Your choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss. Will you take the shot or pass it to your teammate? Will you foul your opponent or let him go to the hoop? The pressure is on. Do you have what it takes to lead your team to the big win?
Game Day Basketball
Author: Brandon Terrell
Publisher: Capstone Press
ISBN: 1496697111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
It is the basketball championship game and the reader's choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss.
Publisher: Capstone Press
ISBN: 1496697111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
It is the basketball championship game and the reader's choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss.
Pick-Up Game
Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763671886
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite — no, demand — a straight read-through." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game of street basketball. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems and photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763671886
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"Nine all-stars in the field of YA lit contribute stories. . . . An anthology of stand-alone stories that invite — no, demand — a straight read-through." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review) Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game of street basketball. Crackling with humor, grit, and streetball philosophy, and featuring poems and photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr., this anthology is a slam dunk.
Patty Hits the Court
Author: Patrick Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684641017
Category : Basketball stories
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Sports-mad kid Patty Mills has always been good at football and athletics and a ripper at rugby. So when he and his friends try out for basketball, it should be a breeze. Patty expects to be a great basketballer straightaway, just like his uncle Danny. But he soon discovers there's a whole lot more to the game than just shooting hoops. He's got a lot to learn, on and off the court-and it's going to take plenty of practice. Will he and his school team be good enough to get into the finals?" --Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684641017
Category : Basketball stories
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Sports-mad kid Patty Mills has always been good at football and athletics and a ripper at rugby. So when he and his friends try out for basketball, it should be a breeze. Patty expects to be a great basketballer straightaway, just like his uncle Danny. But he soon discovers there's a whole lot more to the game than just shooting hoops. He's got a lot to learn, on and off the court-and it's going to take plenty of practice. Will he and his school team be good enough to get into the finals?" --Page 4 of cover.
The Joy of Basketball
Author: Ben Detrick
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647003008
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647003008
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.
The Secret Game
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316244635
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In 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 game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316244635
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In 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 game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.
NBA Game Day
Author: Joseph Layden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590767422
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Photographs and text present an up-close look at varied aspects of the lives of professional basketball players, from pre-game preparations, practice, game action, signing autographs, and more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590767422
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Photographs and text present an up-close look at varied aspects of the lives of professional basketball players, from pre-game preparations, practice, game action, signing autographs, and more.
The Book of Basketball
Author: Bill Simmons
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345520106
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, 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. 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.
Publisher: ESPN
ISBN: 0345520106
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, 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. 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.
Game Day Baseball
Author: Eric Braun
Publisher: Capstone Press
ISBN: 1496697103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
It is the championship baseball game and the reader's choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss.
Publisher: Capstone Press
ISBN: 1496697103
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
It is the championship baseball game and the reader's choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss.
Game Day
Author: Craig James
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470538287
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor and Texas charm-are as addictive as the games are. Game Day takes a complete inside look at the 2008 college football season-from James's behind-the-scenes Spring Tour when he met with players and coaches from twenty top programs to the bowl season. He makes the book timeless by using the season as a springboard to tell tons of great college football stories from his twenty years spent covering the sport . Captures twenty years of unforgettable college football wit and wisdom from his time as a player at SMU and for the New England Patriots through his time in the booth Includes details about most of the top twenty programs around the country Covers the game the way only James can ("No one can capture the essence and spirit of a college football season better than Craig."-Doug Flutie) No matter what team you support or how well they did in 2008, if you love college football, Game Day is a book you just have to read.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470538287
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor and Texas charm-are as addictive as the games are. Game Day takes a complete inside look at the 2008 college football season-from James's behind-the-scenes Spring Tour when he met with players and coaches from twenty top programs to the bowl season. He makes the book timeless by using the season as a springboard to tell tons of great college football stories from his twenty years spent covering the sport . Captures twenty years of unforgettable college football wit and wisdom from his time as a player at SMU and for the New England Patriots through his time in the booth Includes details about most of the top twenty programs around the country Covers the game the way only James can ("No one can capture the essence and spirit of a college football season better than Craig."-Doug Flutie) No matter what team you support or how well they did in 2008, if you love college football, Game Day is a book you just have to read.