Coach Bobby Bowden is an icon of college football who ran his legendary, top-ranking program with a trademark southern charm. With his recent retirement, Bowden is ready to give fans and readers the behind-the-scenes story of his 55-year career and the path that helped him become one of college football's most successful coaches and patriarch of the sport's most famous coaching family.
In this book, Bowden will reveal never-before-published details of the moments and events that have defined his life, including:
* The tragic death of his grandson and son-in-law in a 2004 automobile accident.
* The details of his retirement as FSU's coach at the end of the 2009 season.

When the Dungy family heads out to a football game, Mom and Dall tell all the kids, "Don't wander off!" but Jordan can't resist getting a closer look at the souvenir stand. But when he turns around to talk to his dad, he can't find his family! This book teachers an important lesson to children about paying attention and never wandering off on your own.

When Coach John Wooden graduated from eighth grade, his father gave him a handwritten card and said, "Son, try to live up to this." On the card, his father had written seven simple yet profound life principles:
Be true to yourself
Help others
Make friendship a fine art
Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible
Make each day your masterpiece
Build a shelter against a rainy day by the life you live
Give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day
These principles were the key to Coach Wooden's greatness--and his goodness. Through powerful stories and pithy advice, this book shares the wisdom that made Wooden happy and successful. This inspirational and conversational book, now in trade paper, will encourage, challenge, and motivate readers to build these principles into their own lives.

Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Strengthen the core of your life and faith on a year-long journey with beloved Super Bowl-winning former head coach Tony Dungy and co-author Nathan Whitaker This deluxe LeatherLike edition of the "New York Times" best-selling "The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge" contains 365 reflections from Tony and Nathan on living an "uncommon life" of integrity, honoring your family and friends, creating a life of real significance and impact, and walking with the Lord. This year, step up to the challenge to spend time with God--and dare to be uncommon every day. A perfect gift for sports fans, coaches, athletes, and dads

Too often we define a man's success by what he has rather than who he is. But Super Bowl-winning coach and bestselling author Tony Dungy knows there's a better way. His deluxe gift book "Uncommon Manhood" will help you to celebrate the men in your life who have character, integrity, and courage. Men with both confidence and humility. Men who know the value of family and faith. Men who are truly uncommon. Adapted from Tony Dungy's "New York Times" bestseller "Uncommon," this book is the perfect gift for dads, sports fans, young men, and anyone ready to embark on a life of uncommon significance.

Popular Speaker Reveals That Every Trial Is an Opportunity A football blitz is an attack to force the quarterback into a mistake and create mayhem. But a blitz also creates an opportunity for the quarterback, as it leaves holes in the defense. What looks like the worst play can become the best play. During a life blitz--financially, relationally, spiritually, or physically--by taking initiative you can do more than just survive. You can grow, succeed, and advance. Jeff shares lessons learned through all kinds of blitzes. He teaches how life is about transformation and being others-oriented, and how having the right mind-set can turn fear and misery into courage, growth, and joy. Includes end-of-chapter questions. Now in paper.

Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Strengthen the core of your life and faith on a year-long journey with beloved Super Bowl-winning former head coach Tony Dungy "The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge" contains 365 reflections from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author on living an "uncommon life" of integrity, honoring your family and friends, creating a life of real significance and impact, and walking with the Lord. This year, step up to the challenge--and dare to be uncommon every day.

2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner!
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach--especially a football coach--to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, and the demand that the sport come before anything else? How is it possible for anyone to be successful without compromising faith and family? In this inspiring and reflective memoir, now updated with a new chapter, Coach Dungy tells the story of a life lived for God and family--and challenges us all to redefine our ideas of what it means to succeed.

The softcover edition of this #1 "New York Times" best-seller includes a new chapter! In it, Coach reflects on the 2007 football season and last year's successful hardcover release of "Quiet Strength." Also features a foreword by Denzel Washington and a 16-page color-photo insert. Over 1 million in print!

The Dungy kids learn that honesty is the best policy--even when you can't resist a tempting treat
When Mom brings home cupcakes for dessert, all the Dungy kids are thrilled. "These are for after dinner," she tells the children, and they all agree. But when she opens the box after dinner, one of the treats is gone Who took the missing cupcake? Justin, Jordan, and Jade all have the same answer--"Not me " Dad says it's a real mystery, and that they must all look for the missing cupcake. But Jade has a heavy heart--and cupcake crumbs on her bedroom floor. Was Jade the one who couldn't wait for dessert?
This charming Level 2 Ready-to-Read features all the Dungy children and highlights the importance of always telling the truth.

In "Fatherhood," beloved NBA player, poet, children's advocate, and devoted dad Etan Thomas speaks from his heart on what matters most in his life: being there for his children. As a leading participant in President Obama's Fatherhood Initiative, Etan has reached out to young men (often young fathers) in the juvenile detention system and in local communities. He knows firsthand the difference having a father in your life every day can make.
Now he brings together a chorus of voices to weigh in on the importance of being a father in our nation today and to share what they've learned from being a father, having a father, or in some cases not having a father around.
With Original Essays and Poems from
Taye Diggs - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Malcolm-Jamal Warner - Ice Cube - Howard Dean - Tony Hawk - Isaiah Washington - Yao Ming - Al Sharpton - John King - Lamman Rucker - Derek Fisher - Kevin Durant - Russ Parr - Michael Moore - Chuck D - Malcolm Shabazz - Talem Acey - Will Downing - Chris Paul - Allan Houston - Talib Kweli - Black Ice - Cornel West - Elijah Cummings - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Grant Hill - Coach John Thompson - Roland Martin - Joakim Noah - Arn Tellum - Damian Marley - Abiodune Oyewole - Styles P - Baron Davis - David Aldridge - Stuart Scott - Dave Zirin - Kevin Powell - John Carlos - Derrick Coleman - J. Ivy - Joe Johnson - Al Horford - Pastor John Jenkins - Julian Thomas - Ed Gordon Jr. - Tito Puente Jr. - Billy Hunter - 13 of Nazareth - Messiah Ramkissoon
Through these inspiring personal experiences, Etan and the men he's gathered together hope to share the message that by standing up and taking an active role as fathers, men not only find their own lives more joyful and fulfilling--they pass on to the next generation an unshakable legacy of love, wisdom, responsibility, and strength.

Two days before Super Bowl XLI in 2007, the game's two opposing head coaches posed with the trophy one of them would hoist after the contest. It was a fairly unremarkable event, except that both coaches were African American-a fact that was as much of a story as the game itself. As Jeremi Duru reveals in Advancing the Ball, this unique milestone resulted from the work of a determined group of people whose struggles to expand head coaching opportunities for African Americans ultimately changed the National Football League. Since the league's desegregation in 1946, opportunities had grown plentiful for African Americans as players but not as head coaches-the byproduct of the NFL's old-boy network and lingering stereotypes of blacks' intellectual inferiority. Although Major League Baseball and the NBA had, over the years, made progress in this regard, the NFL's head coaches were almost exclusively white up until the mid-1990s. Advancing the Ball chronicles the campaign of former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman John Wooten to right this wrong and undo decades of discriminatory head coach hiring practices-an initiative that finally bore fruit when he joined forces with attorneys Cyrus Mehri and Johnnie Cochran. Together with a few allies, the triumvirate galvanized the NFL's African American assistant coaches to stand together for equal opportunity and convinced the league to enact the "Rooney Rule," which stipulates that every team must interview at least one minority candidate when searching for a new head coach. In doing so, they spurred a movement that would substantially impact the NFL and, potentially, the nation. Featuring an impassioned foreword by Coach Tony Dungy, Advancing the Ball offers an eye-opening, first-hand look at how a few committed individuals initiated a sea change in America's most popular sport and added an extraordinary new chapter to the civil rights story.

When mom and dad bring home a new puppy, everyone is so excited All the kids love Ruby. But who gets to walk Ruby? Who gets to play with Ruby? Who gets to brush Ruby? In this sweet story, the Dungy children learn to stop saying, "Ruby is my dog," and say instead, "Ruby is our dog " A charming book which teaches the importance of sharing in a sweet and humorous way.