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| Author | : Robert Lipsyte |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2011-05-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0062079263 |
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Celebrated sports journalist Robert Lipsyte—the New York Times’ longtime lead sports columnist—mines pure gold from his long and very eventful career to bring readers a memoir like no other. An enthralling book, as much about personal relationships and the culture of sports as the athletes and teams themselves, An Accidental Sportswriter interweaves stories from Lipsyte’s life and the events he covered to explore the connections between the games we play and the lives we lead. Robert Lipsyte has been there—from the Mets’ first Spring Training to the fight that made Muhammad Ali an international icon to the current steroids scandals that rewired our view of sports—and in An Accidental Sportswriter he offers a fresh and refreshing view of the world of professional athletes as seen through the eyes of a journalist who always managed to remain independent of our jock-obsessed culture.
| Author | : Richard Ford |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 455 |
| Release | : 2012-06-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1408835118 |
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Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accident took his elder son. In the course of this Easter weekend, Frank will lose all the remnants of his familiar life, though he will emerge heroic with spirits soaring. This is a magnificent novel that propelled Richard Ford into the first rank of American writers.
| Author | : Chuck Culpepper |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2008-08-05 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0767928083 |
Download Bloody Confused! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer. After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world—the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.” Writing in the vein of perennial bestsellers such as Fever Pitch and Among the Thugs, Chuck Culpepper brings penetrating insight to the vibrant landscape of English soccer—visiting such storied franchises as Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool . . . and an equally celebrated assortment of pubs. Bloody Confused! will put a smile on the face of any sports fan who has ever questioned what makes us love sports in the first place.
| Author | : Scott Ostler |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2019-10-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0316524735 |
Download Bouncing Back Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Packed with humor and thrilling sports action, this "wonderful story of friendship and the unique ability of kids to overcome a challenge" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Mitch Albom) "will get in your heart and won't get out" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica). Back in his old basketball league, before the car accident, thirteen-year-old Carlos Cooper owned the court, sprinting and jumping and lighting up the scoreboard as his opponents (and teammates) watched in amazement. But now, Carlos feels completely out of his league on his new wheelchair basketball team, the Rollin' Rats. After all, how can he make a layup when he's still struggling to learn how to dribble? But when the city's crooked mayor threatens to tear down the Rollin' Rats' gym, Carlos realizes that he can't stay on the sidelines forever. Because without a gym, the team can't practice, and if they can't practice, they can kiss their state tournament dreams goodbye. If Carlos is going to learn what it truly means to be part of a team and help his new friends save their season, he'll have to either go all-in . . . or get out.
| Author | : Frank Deford |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2013-04-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780802146069 |
Download Over Time Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of American sportswriting by the Emmy Award-winning Sports Illustrated writer traces the lurid early days of the Police Gazette through the current state of ESPN, providing coverage of such personal topics as his stint with the National Sports Daily, his visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe and his recent 1,500th commentary on NPR's Morning Edition.
| Author | : Lina Zeldovich |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2021-11-19 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 022661557X |
Download The Other Dark Matter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of human waste. How I learned to love the excrement; The early history of human excreta; Treasure nigh soil as if it were gold!; The water closet dilemma and the sewage farm paradigm; Germs, fertilizer, and the poop police -- The present: a sludge revolution in progress. The great sewage time bomb and the redistribution of nutrients on the planet; Loowatt, a loo that turns waste into watts; The crap that cooks your dinner and container-based sanitation; HomeBiogas : your personal digester in a box; Made in New York; Lystek, the home of sewage smoothies; How DC water makes biosolids BLOOM; From biosolids to biofuels -- The future of medicine and other things; Poop : the best (and cheapest medicine; Looking where the sun doesn't shine; From the kindness of one's gut : an insider look into stool banks -- Afterword : breathing poetry into poop.
| Author | : Robert Lipsyte |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2010-01-26 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 006199734X |
Download Yellow Flag Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In any race, there are drivers and, at the front of the pack, there are racers. In the final laps, it's the racer who moves his car through the sweet spot, picks off the competition, and drives through a hole to win. In Kyle's family, his older brother, Kris, has always been the racer, born and bred to it, like his father and grandfather and great-grandfather before him. And that's just fine with Kyle; he's got other things to do. Now Kris is out of commission, injured, and Kyle has no choice but to drive. Does he want to drive just long enough to keep Kris's seat warm, or does he want to race—and win? On the heels of Raiders Night, Yellow Flag is a pulse-pounding look inside the elite world of NASCAR racing, from award-winning novelist and sportswriter Robert Lipsyte.
| Author | : John Feinstein |
| Publisher | : Yearling |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2006-06-27 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0553494600 |
Download Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (The Sports Beat, 1) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real “March Madness”—behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament. When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring sports journalists, his prize is a press pass to the Final Four in New Orleans. While exploring the Superdome, he overhears a plot to throw the championship game. With the help of fellow contest winner Susan Carol, Stevie has just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of the star players . . . and why. John Feinstein has been praised as “the best writer of sports books in America today” (The Boston Globe), and he proves it again in this fast-paced novel. “A page-turning thriller and a basketball junkie’s bonanza.” —USA Today
| Author | : Robert Lipsyte |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2010-01-26 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061995835 |
Download The Brave Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sonny's been an outsider all his life. He has never fit into either world: the Moscondagas on the Reservation see him as white; whites see him as Indian. So far, Sonny's managed to harness his anger -- what he calls "the monster" -- in the boxing ring. But Sonny wants out of the Res. He's headed for New York City, where nobody can tell him what to do. Sonny doesn't count on stepping into the middle of a drug war when he gets there -- or on tangling with a tough Harlem boxer-turned-cop named Alfred Brooks. Brooks seems to think that Sonny's got the talent to make it to the top -- to be a contender. But first Sonny's got to learn to be smart, take control of his life, and beat the monster. Only it isn't as easy as it sounds....
| Author | : Dick Gregory |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0671735608 |
Download Nigger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The story of Dick Greagory, welfare case, star athelete, hit comedian, and front-line participant in the battle for Civil Rights.
