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EFT for Golf
By Dawson Church. 2013
The Walking Deck
By Shirley Archer, Ann Field. 2005
Walking as little as 30 minutes daily is one of the easiest, safest, and most enjoyable ways to keep in…
shape and reduce stress. The Walking Deck introduces simple ways to incorporate the benefits of walking into your routine, providing convenient ways to meet your health and fitness goals. Pages cover form, technique, how to monitor intensity, proper stretching and strolling, plus 20 specialty itineraries for hoofing it everywhere from the beach to the mall to city streets.Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine
By Scott Gummer. 2009
The remarkable story of a curious genius whose lifelong quest to unlock the science behind the perfect golf swing changed…
the game forever. In 1939, an average Joe named Homer Kelley played golf for the first time and scored 116-a respectable score for a beginner, but frustrating for a science-minded perfectionist like Kelley. He did not play again for six months; then when he did, he carded a seventy-seven. Vexed, he grew increasingly obsessed and devoted over the next thirty years to solving the science behind the perfect golf swing, self-publishing his findings in 1969 in a book titled The Golfing Machine. This revolutionary book explainedgolf, unlike every other tome that merely describedit. Unfortunately, the majority of golfers dismissed the book because it was all but unreadable, too thick with physics and geometry and scientific vernacular. The Golfing Machineseemed doomed to obscurity until visionary teacher Ben Doyle and superstar-in-the-making Bobby Clampett brought Kelley's teachings to prominence-only to witness Clampett implode on golf's most public stage. Validation finally came seventy years after Homer Kelley's lifework began, and twenty-five years after his death, when a teenage prodigy named Morgan Pressel became the youngest golfer, male or female, ever to win a major championship. In Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine, veteran journalist Scott Gummer brings to light the untold story of golf's most curious genius. A colorful portrait of obsession and an enlightening look into the nuances of the game, Kelley's amazing journey illuminates an important but underappreciated chapter in the history of golf.Patron Saints
By Alan Donnes. 2007
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, devastating not only buildings and homes, but the hope, spirit and faith…
of its people. The Saints were cast out on the road, not knowing when they would return home, and faltered to a losing 3-13 season amidst the chaos. People wondered whether the city could even sustain an NFL team anymore. Then, a funny thing happened on the way to economic devastation. The city of New Orleans, its population cut in half and its local industry in tatters, rallied to buy up the first season-ticket sellout in franchise history. Led by coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees, coming off a near-career-ending shoulder injury, the Saints engineered a worst-to-first season that gave their fans a reason to believe, both in the team and in themselves. Together they inspired each other to do the impossible: put the Saints in the NFC Championship game, and put New Orleans on the road to recovery. Though the Saints emerged from the NFC Championship with a stinging loss to Chicago, they returned home as true champions. In PATRON SAINTS, Saints reporter Alan Donnes has compiled over 100 interviews with the players, coaches, politicians and colorful locals who made it happen. Together, these powerful voices recount the fractious history of the team and the city, how the horror of Katrina brought them together, and how one winning season has brought hope to a place that hope forgot.Always By My Side
By Jim Nantz. 2008
The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. America's most visible sports commentator recounts some of the most dramatic moments…
in American sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him-his beloved father As vivid as an instant replay, Always by My Side gives readers an insider's look into an unprecedented sixty-three- day stretch from February through April of 2007, when Jim Nantz became the first broadcaster to call the Super Bowl, the Final Four, and the Masters. Though Nantz was unable to share the voyage with his dad, the devoted son felt his father's presence every step of the way, and used this championship odyssey to celebrate the people, venues, and moments that tapped into all the goodness that his dad-and his dad's generation- represent. In recounting the highlights of more than two thrilling decades with CBS Sports, Nantz recalls legendary voices of his youth-such as Jim McKay, Chris Schenkel, Pat Summerall, Jack Whitaker, and Dick Enberg-who sparked his imagination and shaped his style. Always by My Side traces Nantz's life and career, and along the way readers are treated to an array of memories, including Nantz's special relationship with former president George H. W. Bush and his friendships with such sports royalty as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Mike Krzyzewski, John Wooden, and many others. Always by My Side turns every day into Father's Day. .Revolution in the Bleachers
By Regan Mcmahon. 2007
A journalist and mother of two athletic kids exposes the physical and emotional dangers of our over-the-top youth sports culture-and…
offers practical solutions for positive change. A decade ago, Joan Ryan's exposé, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, changed the way we look at elite sports, namely figure skating and gymnastics. Today, there is another crisis in youth sports. It may affect any child, from the kindergartner on the soccer field to the high school athlete competing for scarce scholarship money. Regan McMahon's Revolution in the Bleachers is a wake-up call for parents who spend their lives shuttling their kids from one field and practice to the next and wonder what happened to family life. *Zipping My Fly
By Rich Tosches. 2002
Imagine A River Runs Through It seen through the eyes of Dave Barry and you'll get an idea of Rich…
Tosches' sharp-eyed reflections on the art, hobby, and obsession of fly fishing. Armed with a rod, a pen, and an eccentric sense of humor, Pulitzer Prize-nominated sportswriter Rich Tosches headed for the Grand Teton Mountains, site of the World Fly Fishing Championship, and cast a keen eye on his fellow trollers from all over the globe. This encounter-and many others during a lifetime dedicated to the pursuit of fly fishing -are captured in a side-splitting collection of observations on every angle-and angler-of one of America's favorite pastimes. .The Heisman: Great American Stories of the Men Who Won
By Bill Pennington. 2004
In the world of Football, there is no individual award so revered as the Heisman Trophy. Every year since 1935,…
one player has run, thrown, or kicked his way into the pantheon of American sport. This book tells their stories.Who Invented the Bicycle Kick?
By Paul Simpson, Uli Hesse. 2013
The ultimate collection of soccer's greatest lore and legends, by two of the world's most knowledgeable soccer journalistsWho Invented the…
Bicycle Kick? is a rollicking run through 100 years of global soccer history that will surprise and delight fans old and new. Veteran soccer journalists Paul Simpson and Uli Hesse bring together the sublime feats, legendary personalities, neglected heroes, bizarre twists of fate, and fascinating mysteries that have shaped the world's most popular game, including: Who invented the bicycle kick? Why does a football match last 90 minutes? Who scored the fastest goal ever? Which match produced the largest number of red cards? Why are seven dead cats buried under a stadium in Argentina? Which team was banned from the World Cup after refusing to play in shoes? Who had the most powerful leg in soccer history?Providing answers to more than 100 mysteries, Simpson and Hesse explore the beautiful game as never before, shedding new light on legends such as Pele, Maradona, Messi, Beckham, Ronaldo, and Rooney, and uncovering lost histories of international clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona, Liverpool, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and more. Challenging conventional wisdom and destroying many urban myths, Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a must-read for every soccer lover.Illustrated with 100 archival photosPorque el fútbol importa
By Pelé, Brian Winter. 2014
Fútbol. Balompié. El juego bonito. El deporte más popular del mundo tiene muchos nombres pero, por muchas décadas, los aficionados…
han estado de acuerdo en una cosa: el mayor jugador de todos los tiempos fue Pelé. Ahora, la estrella legendaria, embajador y personaje humanitario comparte su visión total de lo que el fútbol puede lograr. Ahora, Pelé comparte por primera vez su historia, su experiencia y sus ideas sobre este juego. Antes de Messi, antes de Ronaldo, antes de Beckham estaba Edson Arantes do Nascimento --conocido simplemente como Pelé--. Un tesoro nacional, sus logros en la cancha fueron magia pura: tres campeonatos mundiales --algo sin precedentes-- y el récord de goleo de todos los tiempos: 1,282 goles en una carrera de veinte años. Ahora, cuando después de sesenta años la Copa Mundial regresa a Brasil --país al que con frecuencia se le reconoce haber perfeccionando este deporte--, el fútbol tiene una oportunidad única para lograr un cambio mundial. Y como embajador oficial del torneo, Pelé está listo para ser el rostro del progreso. Por primera vez, Pelé explora la historia reciente de este juego y ofrece nuevas ideas acerca del papel del fútbol como conector y animador de jugadores alrededor del mundo. Pelé ha viajado por todo el planeta en su papel de embajador mundial del fútbol y de apoyo a organizaciones de beneficencia como la UNICEF, promoviendo la influencia positiva del fútbol en la producción de cambios en los jóvenes, las comunidades y hasta en países enteros. Con detalles extraordinarios y una franqueza sin precedentes, Pelé comparte sus experiencias más inspiradoras, sus historias más conmovedoras y sus lecciones más difíciles, y pone en perspectiva el juego del fútbol. Ese es el legado de Pelé: su manera de transmitir todo lo que ha aprendido y de inspirar a una nueva generación. En Porque el fútbol importa, Pelé detalla sus metas para el futuro del fútbol y, por extensión, del mundo.3 Months to Your First 5k
By Dave Kuehls. 2007
The author of 4 Months to a 4-Hour Marathon gives beginners the advice and instruction they need to take their…
first strides toward becoming great runners. Expert Dave Kuehls offers the inspiration to get even the most devoted couch potatoes on their feet and completing a 5K in three months. Serving as personal coach and trainer, 3 Months to Your First 5K includes: - The physical and psychological benefits of running - Motivation to get started and keep going - Training tips including equipment, clothing, nutrition, warm-ups, schedule, and lifestyle - Time goals - Race day tips and strategies - After the finish line-what's next? - The challenge of the marathon Once readers have accomplished that 5K, they can also learn how to keep the momentum going and improve their time and stamina for longer races. .Walking with Jack
By Don J. Snyder. 2013
A long-standing promise from a father to his five-year-old son . . .A poignant diary that chronicles the journeyWhen Don…
Snyder was teaching the game of golf to his young son, Jack, they made a pact: if one day Jack became good enough to play on a pro golf tour, Don would walk beside him as his caddie. Years later, Jack had developed into a standout college golfer, and Don, at the age of fifty-eight, left the comfort of his Maine home and moved to St. Andrews, Scotland, to learn from the best caddies in the world. He worked loops on famed courses like the Old Course and Kingsbarns, fought his way onto the rotation as a full-time caddie, and recorded the fascinating stories of golfers from every station in life. All the while, he lived like a monk and sent his earnings back home. A world away, Jack endured his own arduous trials, rising through the ranks and battling within the college golf system. At times, the question for the teenage athlete wasn't how to continue . . . but whether to continue at all. Finally, Don and Jack approached the moment when they would reunite--and not only tackle an extraordinarily high level of golf competition but also confront the challenges of a father-son relationship that had inevitably changed since the days when their journey began. Walking with Jack is a truly compelling golf story and a one-of-a-kind narrative that makes you appreciate the lengths to which a father will go to support his son.Last Team Standing
By Matthew Algeo. 2006
During World War II, the National Football League faced a crisis unimaginable today: a shortage of players. By 1943, so…
many players were in the armed forces that the league was forced to fold one team (the Cleveland Rams) and merge two others: the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles. Thus were the Steagles born. The Steagles included military draft rejects, aging stars lured out of retirement, and even a couple of active servicemen who managed to get leave for the games. The center was deaf in one ear, the wide receiver was blind in one eye (and partially blind in the other), and the halfback had bleeding ulcers. One player was so old he'd never before played football with a helmet. Yet, somehow, this motley bunch managed to post a winning record--the first in the history of the Eagles and just the second in the history of the Steelers. ButLast Team Standingisn't just about football. It's also about life in the United States during World War II, a time of fear and hope, of sacrifice and momentous change. It's about rationing, racism, and Rosie the Riveter. It's about draft boards, bond drives, the A-bomb, and movie stars. Above all, it's about the men and women of the Greatest Generation who couldn't fight, but helped win the war in immeasurable ways.Dark Trade
By Donald Mcrae. 1996
In the early 1990s, Donald McRae set out to discover the truth about the intense and forbidding world of professional…
boxing. Travelling around the States and Britain, he was welcomed into the inner sanctums of some of the greatest fighters of the period - men such as Mike Tyson, Chris Eubank, Oscar de la Hoya, Frank Bruno, Evander Holyfield and Naseem Hamed among them. They opened up to him, revealing unforgettable personal stories from both inside and outside the ring, and explaining why it is that some are driven to compete in this most brutal of sports, risking their health and even their lives. The result is a classic account of boxing that remains as fresh and entertaining as when it was first published almost 20 years ago. McRae approaches his subjects with wit, compassion and insight, and the result was a book that was a deserved winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize.The Soccer Diaries: An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game
By Michael J. Agovino. 2014
Although soccer had long been the world s game when Michael J Agovino first encountered it in…
1982 here it was just a poor cousin to American football to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer Americans got wise and turned it into one of the most popular sports in the country Agovino s love affair with soccer is a portrait of the game s culture and an intimate history of the sport s coming of age in the United States Agovino s quest takes him from the unkempt field in the Bronx where he taught himself to play to some of the sport s most storied venues and historic matches With Agovino we travel from school fields to Giants Stadium then from England to Germany Italy and Spain along the way taking in the final days of the North American Soccer League the 1994 World Cup and the birth of Major League Soccer Offering the perspective of fan player and journalist Agovino chronicles his obsession with the sport and its phenomenal evolutionDriving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
By Neal Thompson. 2006
Todays NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million loyal fans, which is growing bigger and more mainstream by the…
day. Part Disney, part Vegas, part Barnum & Bailey, NASCAR is also a multibillion-dollar business and a cultural phenomenon that transcends geography, class, and gender. But dark secrets lurk in NASCAR's past. Driving with the Devil uncovers for the first time the true story behind NASCAR's distant, moonshine-fueled origins and paints a rich portrait of the colorful men who created it. Long before the sport of stock-car racing even existed, young men in the rural, Depression-wracked South had figured out that cars and speed were tickets to a better life. With few options beyond the farm or factory, the best chance of escape was running moonshine. Bootlegging offered speed, adventure, and wads of cash if the drivers survived. Driving with the Devil is the story of bootleggers whose empires grew during Prohibition and continued to thrive well after Repeal, and of drivers who thundered down dusty back roads with moonshine deliveries, deftly outrunning federal agents. The car of choice was the Ford V-8, the hottest car of the 1930s, and ace mechanics tinkered with them until they could fly across mountain roads at 100 miles an hour. After fighting in World War II, moonshiners transferred their skills to the rough, red-dirt racetracks of Dixie, and a national sport was born. In this dynamic era (1930s and 40s), three men with a passion for Ford V-8s convicted criminal Ray Parks, foul-mouthed mechanic Red Vogt, and crippled war veteran Red Byron, NASCAR's first champion emerged as the first stock car team. Theirs is the violent, poignant story of how moonshine and fast cars merged to create a new sport for the South to call its own. Driving with the Devil is a fascinating look at the well-hidden historical connection between whiskey running and stock-car racing.Taekwondo Grappling Techniques
By Tony Kemerly, Steve Snyder. 2009
Take taekwondo beyond just kicking and punching--discover powerful grappling moves that build on the patterns you already know! Taekwondo Grappling…
Techniques presents the most effective grappling maneuvers ever developed for taekwondo. With these step-by-step instructions as your guide, you'll confidently defend yourself against attacks and apply your own devastating grappling techniques to bring assailants into submission.The Way of Karate
By George E. Mattson. 1963
Eat, Sleep, Ride
By Paul Howard. 2011
For Paul Howard, who has ridden the entire Tour de France route during the race itself-setting off at 4 am…
each day to avoid being caught by the pros-riding a small mountain-bike race should hold no fear. Still, this isn't just any mountain-bike race. This is the Tour Divide.Running from Banff in Canada to the Mexican border, the Tour Divide is more than 2,700 miles-500 miles longer than the Tour de France. Its route along the Continental Divide goes through the heart of the Rocky Mountains and involves more than 200,000 feet of ascent-the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest seven times.The other problem is that Howard has never owned a mountain bike-and how will training on the South Downs in southern England prepare him for sleeping rough in the Rockies? Entertaining and engaging, Eat, Sleep, Ride will appeal to avid and aspiring cyclers, as well as fans of adventure/travel narrative with a humorous twist.Day and Section Hikes: John Muir Trail
By Kathleen Dodge. 2007
The John Muir Trail runs a spectacular 211 miles from Yosemite Valley to the foot of Mount Whitney, crossing through…
Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, the Inyo National Forest, and the Devils Postpile National Monument. This guide has descriptions for six day hikes, five overnight hikes, and the entire trail in six sections, and includes transit and lodging information, altitude profiles, a GPS-based trail map, and ratings for scenery, trail condition, difficulty, accessibility for children, and solitude.