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Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation (Sport, Culture, and Society) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 723min
Winner of the 2017 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection.The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the 20th century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the 12 essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these “separate games” provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination.The significance of this sporting culture is vividly showcased in the stories of the Cuban Giants baseball team, basketball’s New York Renaissance Five, the Tennessee State Tigerbelles track-and-field team, black college football’s Turkey Bowl Classic, car racing’s Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, Negro League Baseball’s East-West All-Star game, and many more. These teams, organizations, and events made up a vibrant national sporting complex that remained in existence until the integration of sports beginning in the late 1940s. Separate Games explores the fascinating ways sports helped bind the black community and illuminate race pride, business acumen, and organizational abilities.The book is published by University of Arkansas. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks.“Separate Games should resonate with students, making it an excellent reader for courses exploring the history of sport or racial segregation.” The Journal of American History) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Sadzin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134849/bk_acx0_134849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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LeBron James: The Amazing Story of LeBron James - One of Basketball’s Most Incredible Players! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min
This audiobook aims to serve as a biography-to-date of the basketball superstar LeBron James, covering his life both on and off the court. Inside, you will learn about LeBron’s childhood in Akron Ohio, and how he became such a dominant force on the basketball court. Throughout this audiobook, we look at different phases of his career, from high school, to his first stint with the Cavaliers, to his time at Miami, and finally back to his recent time playing for Cleveland. We also discuss what might be next for LeBron James and whether or not he will continue to represent the Cleveland Cavaliers. At the completion of this audiobook, you will have a good understanding of LeBron James’ incredible life, how he became such an incredible basketball player, and what the future might have in store for him! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Hegner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126038/bk_acx0_126038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kyrie Irving: The Amazing Story of Kyrie Irving - One of Basketball’s Most Incredible Players! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min
This audiobook serves as a biography to date of the basketball star Kyrie Irving. From this audiobook, you will learn all about Kyrie's childhood, from his time in Australia, to his first experiences with basketball, to becoming a high school star! You will also learn about Kyrie's college career and his decision to enter the NBA draft! In his short NBA career, Kyrie has been a dominant force, already helping the Cavaliers to win an NBA championship! This book will give you an insight into what makes Kyrie so special, and what might be next for the young superstar! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Hegner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130628/bk_acx0_130628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kobe Bryant: The Amazing Story of Kobe Bryant - One of Basketball’s Most Incredible Players! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
Are you interested in learning more about the beginnings, career, milestones, and future plans of one of the stalwarts of professional basketball? In this audiobook, we will explore where Bryant grew up, what he was like as a child, how his NBA career panned out, and where is headed now. Although it has been a few years since Bryant retired from the game of basketball, he continues to be a tour de force in the sport and in popular culture, and his name has inspired a whole new generation of rising NBA stars who are following in his footsteps. Bryant may have bid farewell to playing professional basketball, but his influence continues to permeate the four corners of the league and even beyond because of his active participation in various causes. Get this audiobook today and be inspired by the basketball legend Kobe Bryant! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Hegner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127410/bk_acx0_127410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stephen Curry: The Amazing Story of Stephen Curry - One of Basketball’s Most Incredible Players! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min
Only in his 30s, Stephen Curry has achieved in a short span of time what many individuals could not achieve in a lifetime. As the point guard for the Golden State Warriors, he has been recognized as an NBA All-Star, Most Valuable Player, and Champion. His achievements stretch beyond the National Basketball Association and beyond the United States. He has become one of the world’s richest and most recognizable athletes, and he has become a celebrity through both his athletic achievements and his remarkable personality. This audiobook will take you on a journey, documenting the incredible life and career-to-date of basketball superstar, Stephen Curry. Through this audiobook, you'll learn all about Curry's childhood, his time at college, his NBA career-to-date, his home life, and more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Hegner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128740/bk_acx0_128740_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Russell Westbrook: The Amazing Story of Russell Westbrook: One of Basketball’s Most Incredible Players! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min
Followers of the NBA know Russell Westbrook as one of the biggest stars in professional basketball today. But his life and beginnings are highly interesting to learn about and can serve as an inspiration for your own endeavors in life.It is often too easy to look at the success of athletes and other notable celebrities and forget to see where they came from. Often, their journeys to success provide insight and valuable lessons that can be applied by anyone.In this book, you will learn about the early life of Russell Westbrook, his high school and college playing days, his beginnings as an NBA player, and his various achievements as one of the league’s most versatile stars. You will also discover other facets of his life and where he may be headed in the next few years! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Hegner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129698/bk_acx0_129698_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Getting to Us: How Great Coaches Make Great Teams , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent “us”? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for 25 years. It’s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball’s greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach’s Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has, too, tremendously. Seth Davis decided to embark on a proper investigation to get to the root of the matter. In Getting to Us, Davis probes and prods the best of the best from the landscape of active coaches of football and basketball, college and pro - from Urban Meyer, Dabo Swinney, and Jim Harbaugh to Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Brad Stevens, Geno Auriemma, and Doc Rivers - to get at the fundamental ingredients of greatness in the coaching sphere. There’s no single right way, of course - part of the great value of this book is Davis’ distillation of what he has learned about different types of greatness in coaching and what sort of leadership thrives in one kind of environment but not in others. Some coaches have thrived at the college level but not in the pros. Why? What’s the difference? Some coaches are stern taskmasters; others are warm and cuddly; some are brilliant strategists but less emotionally involved with their players, and with others it’s vice versa. In Getting to Us, we come to feel a deep connection with the most successful and iconic coaches in all of sports - big winners and big characters whose stories offer much of enduring interest and value. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003892/bk_peng_003892_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 770min
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite team’s chances to win a championship. In the early 1980s, however, a salary cap was not only novel but nonexistent. The Cap tells the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of the deal between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that created the salary cap in 1983, the first in all of sports, against the backdrop of a looming players’ strike on one side and threatened economic collapse on the other.Joshua Mendelsohn illustrates how the salary cap was more than just professional basketball’s economic foundation - it was a grand bargain, a compromise meant to end the chaos that had gripped the sport since the early 1960s. The NBA had spent decades in a vulnerable position financially and legally, unique in professional sports. It entered the 1980s badly battered, something no one knew better than a few legendary NBA figures: Larry Fleisher, general counsel and negotiator for the National Basketball Players Association; Larry O’Brien, the commissioner; and David Stern, who led negotiations for the NBA and would be named the commissioner a few months after the salary cap deal was reached.As a result, in 1983 the NBA and its players made a novel settlement. The players gave up infinite pay increases, but they gained a guaranteed piece of the league’s revenue and free agency to play where they wished - a combination that did not exist before in professional sports, but as a result, became standard for the NBA, NFL, and NHL as well.The Cap explores in detail not only the high-stakes negotiations in the early 1980s but all the twists and turns through the decades that led the parties to reach a salary cap compromise. It is a compelling story that involves notable players, colorful owners, visionary league and union officials, and a sport trying to solidify a bright future desp ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Bowlby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227693/bk_acx0_227693_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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