Author: Oludotun Coker
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755443597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Introducing "The Silly Sports Spectacle: Outlandish Competitions and Riotous Races," a laughter-filled journey through the world of whimsical sports games, hilarious competition ideas, and comical race adventures. Get ready to embark on a lighthearted exploration of unique sports events that will leave you in stitches. This fun-filled sports book takes you on a rollercoaster ride through silly sports, funny race events, and laughter-filled sports stories that will keep you entertained from start to finish. From the outlandish race challenges to the comical race experiences, this book celebrates the joy of engaging in unconventional sports activities that are bound to make you chuckle. Join us as we delve into the realm of silly sports games and discover the sheer delight of participating in whimsical events that bring laughter and camaraderie to the forefront. Get ready to experience the hilarious side of competition with this one-of-a-kind collection of sports adventures.
The Silly Sports Spectacle
Author: Oludotun Coker
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755443597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Introducing "The Silly Sports Spectacle: Outlandish Competitions and Riotous Races," a laughter-filled journey through the world of whimsical sports games, hilarious competition ideas, and comical race adventures. Get ready to embark on a lighthearted exploration of unique sports events that will leave you in stitches. This fun-filled sports book takes you on a rollercoaster ride through silly sports, funny race events, and laughter-filled sports stories that will keep you entertained from start to finish. From the outlandish race challenges to the comical race experiences, this book celebrates the joy of engaging in unconventional sports activities that are bound to make you chuckle. Join us as we delve into the realm of silly sports games and discover the sheer delight of participating in whimsical events that bring laughter and camaraderie to the forefront. Get ready to experience the hilarious side of competition with this one-of-a-kind collection of sports adventures.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755443597
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Introducing "The Silly Sports Spectacle: Outlandish Competitions and Riotous Races," a laughter-filled journey through the world of whimsical sports games, hilarious competition ideas, and comical race adventures. Get ready to embark on a lighthearted exploration of unique sports events that will leave you in stitches. This fun-filled sports book takes you on a rollercoaster ride through silly sports, funny race events, and laughter-filled sports stories that will keep you entertained from start to finish. From the outlandish race challenges to the comical race experiences, this book celebrates the joy of engaging in unconventional sports activities that are bound to make you chuckle. Join us as we delve into the realm of silly sports games and discover the sheer delight of participating in whimsical events that bring laughter and camaraderie to the forefront. Get ready to experience the hilarious side of competition with this one-of-a-kind collection of sports adventures.
The Spectacle
Author: Chris Workman
Publisher: Apex Legends
ISBN: 9780996286954
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A century's worth of legendary drivers, race cars and Indy 500 race action at 'The Brickyard' are covered in this easy-to-follow, illustrated picture book"--Back cover.
Publisher: Apex Legends
ISBN: 9780996286954
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A century's worth of legendary drivers, race cars and Indy 500 race action at 'The Brickyard' are covered in this easy-to-follow, illustrated picture book"--Back cover.
Game Over
Author: Dave Zirin
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595588159
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy" sports and politics just don't mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of soccer in the Arab Spring to the Penn State sexual abuse scandals and Tim Tebow's on-field genuflections, this timely and hard-hitting new book from the "conscience of American sportswriting" (The Washington Post) reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. Game Over offers new insights and analysis of headline-grabbing sports controversies, exploring the shady side of the NCAA, the explosive 2011 MLB All-Star Game, and why the Dodgers crashed and burned. It covers the fascinating struggles of gay and lesbian athletes to gain acceptance, female athletes to be more than sex symbols, and athletes everywhere to assert their collective bargaining rights as union members. Zirin also illustrates the ways in which athletes are once again using their exalted platforms to speak out and reclaim sports from the corporate interests that have taken it hostage. In Game Over, he cheers the victories but also reflects on how far we have yet to go. Combining brilliant set pieces with a sobering overview of today's sports scene in Zirin's take-no-prisoners style, Game Over is a must read for anyone, sports fan or not, interested in understanding how sports reflect and shape society--and why the stakes have never been higher.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595588159
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy" sports and politics just don't mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of soccer in the Arab Spring to the Penn State sexual abuse scandals and Tim Tebow's on-field genuflections, this timely and hard-hitting new book from the "conscience of American sportswriting" (The Washington Post) reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. Game Over offers new insights and analysis of headline-grabbing sports controversies, exploring the shady side of the NCAA, the explosive 2011 MLB All-Star Game, and why the Dodgers crashed and burned. It covers the fascinating struggles of gay and lesbian athletes to gain acceptance, female athletes to be more than sex symbols, and athletes everywhere to assert their collective bargaining rights as union members. Zirin also illustrates the ways in which athletes are once again using their exalted platforms to speak out and reclaim sports from the corporate interests that have taken it hostage. In Game Over, he cheers the victories but also reflects on how far we have yet to go. Combining brilliant set pieces with a sobering overview of today's sports scene in Zirin's take-no-prisoners style, Game Over is a must read for anyone, sports fan or not, interested in understanding how sports reflect and shape society--and why the stakes have never been higher.
Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sports
Author: Jim Parry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136893806
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport, spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics, such as prayer and sport, religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and ‘flow’ in sport, theological analysis of genetic performance enhancement technologies, sectarianism in Scottish football, a spiritual understanding of sport psychology consultancy in English premiership soccer and how Zen may be useful in sports performance and participation. As modern sport is often intertwined with commercial and political agendas, this book also provides an important corrective to the “win at all costs” culture of modern sport, which cannot always be fully understood through secular ethical inquiry. This is a unique and important addition to the current literature for a wide-range of fields including theology and religious studies, psychology, health studies, ethics and sports studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136893806
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport, spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics, such as prayer and sport, religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and ‘flow’ in sport, theological analysis of genetic performance enhancement technologies, sectarianism in Scottish football, a spiritual understanding of sport psychology consultancy in English premiership soccer and how Zen may be useful in sports performance and participation. As modern sport is often intertwined with commercial and political agendas, this book also provides an important corrective to the “win at all costs” culture of modern sport, which cannot always be fully understood through secular ethical inquiry. This is a unique and important addition to the current literature for a wide-range of fields including theology and religious studies, psychology, health studies, ethics and sports studies.
The Oxford Handbook Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
Author: Alison Futrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019959208X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
This Handbook presents innovative research on sport and spectacle in ancient Greece and Rome, exploring historical perspectives, contest forms, and civic and social aspects such as class, spaces, health, gender, and sexuality. Greek and Roman topics are interwoven to simulate contest-like tensions and complementarities between the two cultures.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019959208X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
This Handbook presents innovative research on sport and spectacle in ancient Greece and Rome, exploring historical perspectives, contest forms, and civic and social aspects such as class, spaces, health, gender, and sexuality. Greek and Roman topics are interwoven to simulate contest-like tensions and complementarities between the two cultures.
Spectacle
Author: Susan Steinberg
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly
The Spectacles
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781975736774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Spectacles by Edgar Allan Poe is one of his exciting short stories. This edition is a good introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781975736774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Spectacles by Edgar Allan Poe is one of his exciting short stories. This edition is a good introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships
Author: Wolfram Manzenreiter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317988779
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and consumption of football on a transnational scale. In the course of such rearrangements, football tournaments like the UEFA Championship or the European Champions League turned into mega-events and media spectacles attracting ever-growing audiences. The experience of participating in these events offers some of the very few occasions for the display and embodiment of identities within a European context. This volume takes the 2008 EUROs hosted by Austria and Switzerland as a case study to analyze the political and cultural significance of the tournament from a multidisciplinary angle. What are the special features and spatial arrangements of a UEFAesque Europe, in comparison to alternative possibilities of a Europe? Situating the sport tournament between interpretations of collective European ritual and European spectacle, the key research question will ask what kind of Europe was represented in the cultural, political and economic manifestations of the 2008 EUROs. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317988779
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes impacting upon its international framework as well as local traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for transformations of the production and consumption of football on a transnational scale. In the course of such rearrangements, football tournaments like the UEFA Championship or the European Champions League turned into mega-events and media spectacles attracting ever-growing audiences. The experience of participating in these events offers some of the very few occasions for the display and embodiment of identities within a European context. This volume takes the 2008 EUROs hosted by Austria and Switzerland as a case study to analyze the political and cultural significance of the tournament from a multidisciplinary angle. What are the special features and spatial arrangements of a UEFAesque Europe, in comparison to alternative possibilities of a Europe? Situating the sport tournament between interpretations of collective European ritual and European spectacle, the key research question will ask what kind of Europe was represented in the cultural, political and economic manifestations of the 2008 EUROs. This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
In the By-ways of Life
Author: J. S. Neish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forfar (Scotland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forfar (Scotland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Sports Media
Author: Andrew C. Billings
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136838813
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports media content has influenced nearly every major technology innovation of the past several decades, chapters included herein assess existing scholarship while positing important future questions about the role sports media will play in the daily lives of sports fans worldwide. Contributions from well-known scholars are supplemented by work from younger researchers doing new work in this area. Developed for the Broadcast Education Association's Electronic Media Research series, this volume will be required reading for graduate and undergraduate students in media, communication, sociology, marketing, and sports management, and will serve as a valuable reference for future research in sports media.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136838813
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports media content has influenced nearly every major technology innovation of the past several decades, chapters included herein assess existing scholarship while positing important future questions about the role sports media will play in the daily lives of sports fans worldwide. Contributions from well-known scholars are supplemented by work from younger researchers doing new work in this area. Developed for the Broadcast Education Association's Electronic Media Research series, this volume will be required reading for graduate and undergraduate students in media, communication, sociology, marketing, and sports management, and will serve as a valuable reference for future research in sports media.