South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on South Asian-only basketball leagues common in most major U.S. and Canadian cities, to show that basketball, for these South Asian American players is not simply a whimsical hobby, but a means to navigate and express their identities in 21st century America. The participation of young men in basketball is one platform among many for performing South Asian American identity. South Asian-only leagues and tournaments become spaces in which to negotiate the relationships between masculinity, race, and nation. When faced with stereotypes that portray them as effeminate, players perform sporting feats on the court to represent themselves as athletic. And though they draw on black cultural styles, they carefully set themselves off from African American players, who are deemed “too aggressive.” Accordingly, the same categories of their own marginalization—masculinity, race, class, and sexuality—are those through which South Asian American men exclude women, queer masculinities, and working-class masculinities, along with other racialized masculinities, in their effort to lay claim to cultural citizenship. One of the first works on masculinity formation and sport participation in South Asian American communities, Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on an American popular sport to analyze the dilemma of belonging within South Asian America in particular and in the U.S. in general.

Kile and LD go to the West Coast to play for the LA Riot with their friend Eric as an assistant coach. They win another ring, but LD encounters tragedy. Kile's wife, Abbey, takes a ballet fellowship at LA City College and works with yet another Ashley. KIle and Eric return to Ohio for the next season to sign with the Calipers again who are still in Richfield due to more complications in Cleveland. Ron has been promoted to GM, Chaz to team president, and Johnny to head coach. Brianna and Chaz get married but not before unforeseen snag. The Calipers avoid catastrophes off the court in the west and the northwest in winning yet another ring, but Eric isn't so fortunate. Kile recruits Tyler and Stinky to the Cals to replace LD and Andre. Tyler and Kile also play in the Pan Am Games and new Wide Tracks center Vlad the Impaler Putinsky causes problems for the Cals and the league including a new commissioner before Kile curtails his bad behavior through rash action of his own.

Kile decided to use his opt-out and return to the Calipers in Ohio after winning a ring in Los Angeles just after his superstar teammate, LaDodge, was killed. He gets All-Pro forward Tyler Posey to join him from the Cincinnati Riverboats as well as All-Pro center Sasha Stinkovich form the Pontiac Wide Tracks to replace LD as well as hobbled center, Andre Wayans. His wife Abbey leaves her fellowship at Los Angeles City College, but instead of returning to the University of Akron, she enters into expectant motherhood as she becomes pregnant. Former Calipers Head Coach Ron Black is now General Manager, his former offensive coordinator Johnny Roland has been promoted to Head Coach, with Kile's friend Eric Winters returning to Ohio to become defensive coordinator. Former GM Chaz Graham is now club president as well as becoming engaged to media liaison, Brianna Morgan. Ron's former mentor, Ivan Dropabich still coaches the Wide Tracks, but their relationship is complicated by newly acquired Pontiac Center Vlad the Impaler Putinski whose rough house paly causes a series of serious mishpas including a death to reserve guard, Jamal Makabom of the Cals which causes new IRO commissioner, Stan Toomer to take action when the authorities look the other way, and even Kile himself is forced to later get involved when Vlad still hasn't settled down. Kile and Tyler and Stinky also play in the Pan Am Games before training camp, and the season has a slam-bang ending when yet another unexpected disaster strikes the pacific Northwest in the league Finals against the Seattle 707's.

The expectations were high, and the results were record breaking. Before the 1986--87 season began, the pre-season AP poll had the Iowa Hawkeyes ranked tenth. Iowa fans suspected it might be low as they had Roy Marble, whom Sports Illustrated had compared to another number 23, Michael Jordan. The streak began at the Great Alaska Shootout and continued until they had won more consecutive games than any team in Iowa men's basketball history. This is the story of that season, the players, the coaches, and what it was like to cheer that very special team.

A life-changing guide to achieving your goals, by the 2013 NCAA champion college basketball coach and #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Rick Pitino is famous as one of the most dynamic and successful basketball coaches of our time, leading the University of Louisville Cardinals to the NCAA basketball championship in 2013, and is renowned for writing the #1 New York Times bestselling success and leadership book, Success is a Choice.In his new book, The One-Day Contract, Pitino details his key to success, on the court and in life: to focus on making the most of each day, by creating a contract with yourself. Coach Pitino was able to turn Louisville into NCAA champions by applying this idea to everything he and the team did--every practice, every recruiting visit, every game preparation, every scouting report, every instruction that he gave players and coaches, and everything he did himself. Each day became just as important as reaching the national championship, and so, by honoring the one-day contract, he and Louisville moved through adversity toward their goal.In this inspiring and practical guide, Coach Rick Pitino illustrates how to set your own one-day contract, and follow through to honor it for each day, each goal, and each interaction with another person. Pitino shows how to:

• Establish focus as a discipline in everything you do: planning, strategy, priorities, and career advancement.
• Discover the true key to success: not ambition, not wealth, not power, but humility.
• Use technology wisely--but don't let it replace personal connection with the people you work and live with.
• Own up to your problems, tell the truth and they will become part of your past. Lie and they become part of your future.
• Make small changes and add value to every minute of your life.

When we were young, we worshipped stars, gleaming long-limbed godsframed in the act of impossible flight. For a time we tried to follow, to carve out our own piece of sky with a butter-smooth arc of an arm and a Spalding ball glued to the fingertips… Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game and delves into the hopes and dreams of those who play it. From the fleeting high of the score and the robust camaraderie of the team, to the poignant lows of a body too worn to play the game.

A young teen boy takes on the journey of a full season of basketball. He has great skill, passion for the game, and heart. His amazing basketball skills and his great personality lead him and his team to great fortune.

Kile. after Ashley's death, takes up with her roommate, Abbey, in yet another interracial romance, whom he marries when they hear LD is marrying Sam, his log-time, live-in girlfriend. Kile and LD leave the Cleveland Calipers, who actually play near Akron in Richfield, so sign with the Los Angeles Riot, also of the International Roundball Association after their friend and player-coach Wally, who was a native of California passes away. LD undergoes a midlife crisis while working on a movie and takes up with a young Craft Foods worker. Their and teammate Eric, also joins the Riot as an assistant coach as the three march toward another IRO title as the mob is after LD for his sins in Indiana and Michigan against their rabid fans.

Sound offensive basketball, regardless of the style or type of offense, involves several key principles that include spacing, moving the ball, moving people, offensive rebounding and cutting and screening. This short book covers the basics of sound cutting and screening. Cutting and screening are the hardest of all offensive basic building blocks to defend. The principles described in this book apply to any offense. There is always more for a coach to learn and the principles included in this book will help any coach improve the offense he or she already runs. The principles and concepts in this short book are illustrated with both diagrams and photographs. Also included are simple drills to improve the basic skills and fundamentals needed to improve the skills required to effectively execute cuts and screens.

The "Best of 60 Seconds on Officiating" provides a complete compendium of articles from the internationally acclaimed basketball officiating resource, ref60.com. The authors have taken the top articles from the past five seasons and compiled them in one easy to read resource. This is a great compliment to the best-selling "Beyond the Rules" series for scholastic and collegiate basketball referees. The topics cover every aspect of officiating and will certainly raise your game to higher levels. Take these best practices, tips, and techniques and weave them into YOUR game -- all provided from the top teaching professionals in the game. Visit http: //gobeyondtherules.com for updates and new officiating resources.

During the 1972-73 season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen games on their way to a not-yet-broken record of nine wins and seventy-three losses.
Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers. Although the team was uniformly bad, there were still many memorable moments, and the lore surrounding the team is legendary. Once, when head coach Lou Rubin tried to substitute John Q. Trapp out of a game, Trapp refused and told Rubin to look behind the team's bench, whereby one of Trapp's friends supposedly opened his jacket to show his handgun. With only four wins at the All-Star break, Rubin was fired and replaced by player-coach Kevin Loughery.
In addition to chronicling the 76ers' woes, "Perfectly Awful" also captures the drama, culture, and attitude of the NBA in an era when many white fans believed that the league had too many black players, most of whom were overtly political and/or using recreational drugs.

"FINDING OUR GAME," tells the story of a group of guys who are making the journey through their midlife years. The guys meet during a chance encounter, and find that they all share a common love for the game of basketball. They hit upon a plan to play once a week. Over time, their friendships grow and they start sharing stories, which leads to exploring some common experiences in coping with modern life. All in the group seem to benefit by this amateur group counseling, and they end up having some fun along the way too. The little group slowly starts to expand their membership by enlisting other like minded soles. They also include their sons to the mix too. The basketball dynamics are changed with the "yutes" joining in, and it's not just the pace of the game that changes. The guys find that there are other side benefits to his weekly basketball game. One side benefit is the teamwork and the common ground they are building with their sons. The guys think there are valuable life lessons that are transferred to their sons even though they can't explain or verbalize what these life lessons are. They also feel they are showing their sons how a friendly-good game of basketball could and should be played. The book describes other events that help shape the group. They face pressure from the wives, a nasty neighbor, gym closings, and the death of their friend and leader JB, but the band of b-ball brothers find ways to keep on going, and to keep on playing. They acquire the habit of stopping by the local watering hole for a brew and a post game recap, after playing ball. This doubles the time of the Thursday night outings and leads to other misadventures like: bar hopping, and eventually road trips. The Jumbo Weekend theory is discovered and embraced, mostly because it helps justify their Thursday night outings. Over time, the guys begin to change their basketball game to the type of game they think it ought to be. They try to take the ego out of the game shunning, trash talking, hot dogging, bucket hanging, hard fouls and even arguing. The book also explores the differences between men and women. Women seem to be naturally good at communicating and hence good at creating their own social support network. Guys tend to be loners and keep their frustrations and problems to themselves. Guys just don't naturally develop the support networks, and this group of guys started out no differently. But after a while, the guys start to open up and share their worries and concerns over a myriad of modern life's stumbling blocks, like: to-do-lists, responsibilities, life pressures and divorce. Around this same time, the author finds himself headed for a midlife crisis, but is rescued, in part, by his new found basketball buddies.

Volume II of Basketball's Third Element: Improvisation is in essence a bridge between the theory (Volume I) and the implementation of the theory (Volume III). The theory we have put forth is that there is a third element in each game that goes unnoticed but is highly productive. It requires the use of improvisation which, in turn, is dependent on instincts. This volume builds the basis for Volume III which is essentially a coaching manual for a method of training and playing in the third element. It stays attached, in principle, to the theory of Volume I by developing a case for the technical portion that is the coaching manual. It explains the background of improvisation and instinctive play, the background of the Monk System, and the background of teaching in the system so that third element learning is advanced.

This is Volume 2 of Tips, Techniques, and Best Practices for Scholastic / Collegiate Basketball Officials. Topics include: Handling the Opening Toss, Primary Coverage Areas (PCA), When A Dribble Begins and Ends, Interrupted Dribble, Dribbling and Palming, When a Try Begins, When a Try Ends, The Three Second Rule, Goaltending and Basket Interference, The Ten Second Count, Closely Guarded, Designated Spot, Breaking the Plane, Last Touch - First Touch, Backcourt Violations During the Inbounds, Understanding Player and Team Control, Timeouts: Who and When, Dealing with Injuries, Correctable Errors, Fouls by the Inbounding Team, Contact with the Basket / Net or Backboard, Sliding or Rolling with the Ball, Swinging Elbows, Coach and Bench Decorum, Legal Screens, Substitutes, Block - Charge, Double Fouls and the "Blarge," Throw-In Spots, Free Throws and Free Throw Coverage.