Sports & Recreation : Basketball

Chuck Taylor is one of the most famous names in basketball history that no one knows anything about. His name is synonymous with the Converse tennis shoes ("Chucks") that bear his name. In 2001, while researching a story on the bankruptcy of Converse, Inc., the oldest continuous sport shoe manufacturer in America, newspaper reporter Abraham Aamidor discovered that little was truly known about the company's famous personality, and it sparked an interest to know more. The result is the first-ever biography of Taylor. more...

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Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives. more...

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From a 40-year veteran, the only book available devoted to coaching high school basketball. In Coaching High School Basketball , Hall of Famer Bill Kuchar presents an indispensable instruction manual for experienced and rookie coaches alike. A combination of classic tactics and new, cutting-edge strategies, this one-of-a-kind handbook provides easyto- read diagrams and instructions, plus dozens of practice drills to reinforce fundamentals and teach innovative moves. Readers will learn how to:.:.; Master Kuchar's ''double motion offense''.; Locate, protect, and infiltrate zones.; Defend against the fast break.; Use last-second plays for when the game is on the line.; Make the most of out-of-bounds plays.; Scout and evaluate junior high school talent.; Get college coaches to scout their games. more...

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In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by 'counting coup': touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of...Counting CoupIn this extraordinary work of journalism, Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians and follows the struggles of a talented, moody, charismatic young woman named Sharon LaForge, a gifted basketball player and a descendant of one of George Armstrong Custer's Indian scouts. But Counting Coup is far more than just a sports story or a portrait of youth. It is a sobering expose of a part of our society long since cut out of the American dream. more...

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In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. more...

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