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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Basketball
If you watch certain reality shows, you might think you know all
about the private lives of professional athletes and the women with
whom these celebrities are involved. The women often are portrayed
as shallow or demoralizing causers of drama. Now, author M. S. Lily
Stargazer is here to tell you otherwise. Lily met Clay in college
and went on to travel the world with him as he excelled in his
sport. She experienced it all-the fast life, the fame, and the
money-but unlike so many others who were dazzled by the glittering
world of professional sports, she managed to stay grounded. In the
Shadows of Glory ... My NBA Life offers an in-depth, poignant
account of living day to day with an NBA player-in fact, living
with the NBA itself-from the perspective of "a girl who enjoyed
life and fell in love with an athlete, a basketball player."
This book provides an easy to follow program for developing and
improving your basketball skills--regardless of your current level
of play. If you are one of those players who has aspirations to
move on and be successful at the next level---This book is a must
read for you.
In the five years since its inception, Basketball Prospectus has
quickly become required reading for anyone who's passionate about
college basketball and wants to better understand both the game and
their favorite team. Now the kind of Prospectus hoops insight that
the New York Times has called "indispensable" has been collected
into one definitive book for the coming year, College Basketball
Prospectus 2012-13.
When Coach Johnny Carter led the Kennard Tigers to their first
State Championship, he did more than defy expectations. The small
team from east Texas was unassuming and newly- integrated. They had
a rookie coach no one had ever heard of and they went from being on
no one's radar to claiming the title. They did it all in their very
first season. www.CoachJohnnyCarter.com
The inside story of the University of Kentucky's involvement in the
college basketball point-shaving scandal of the 1940-50s, including
heretofore never-published information about how gamblers enticed
players to take part in the scheme.
For twelve years the women's basketball rivalry between UConn and
Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women's sports. Even now,
twenty years since the annual series started, the competition
between these two storied programs still provokes heated argument
and bitter resentment. Led by Hall of Fame coaches Geno Auriemma
and Pat Summitt, UConn and Tennessee combined for nine national
championships, with the UConn Huskies winning five-including four
against the Tennessee Lady Vols. In all, UConn won thirteen of
twenty-two matchups during the rivalry, and along the way the two
coaches-with distinctive and brash personalities and a shared
determination to rule their sport-clashed privately and publicly,
generating enough heat to make women's basketball relevant in the
national sports landscape as never before. On the court, the two
teams produced a series of memorable games, from overtime thrillers
to timeless classics that defined the sport. Off the court, the
coaches' encounters were often marked by their seemingly genuine
dislike for each other, until the conflict reached a breaking point
in 2007 and Summitt stunned the basketball world by canceling the
series for reasons neither side has ever revealed. Now, eight years
after the last game, Unrivaled uncovers the on-court and
behind-the-scenes story of this intensely personal rivalry between
coaches, players, and the two most passionate fan bases women's
sports has ever known.
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