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The New Yorker's Guide to LA, The Angeleno's Guide to NYC
By Henry Owens. 2019
This comparative travel guide answers the oft-posed question, "Which city is better: LA or New York?"The short answer: Who cares?!…
It turns out the cities' similarities are what make it impossible to choose. The New Yorker's Guide to LA, The Angeleno's Guide to NYC -- colorful and comprehensive -- is as much a love letter to these two cities as it is a practical travel guide. By highlighting the parallels between the two places, it will help you get up to speed in New York City or settle into the groove of Los Angeles.Featuring a mirrored design, this book shows which neighborhoods correspond in each city, which pizza places and taco stands can't be missed, and how to seamlessly switch from navigating the MTA to driving on the 405. Covering art, culture, shopping, food, and more, it highlights the similarities while breaking down the nuanced differences in each city. It's practical, must-have guide for tourist and native alike.Renowned sports journalist Dan Wetzel shoots and scores with Epic Athletes: Lionel Messi, an inspiring young readers biography of a…
soccer great who rose from an underdog to a champion!Featuring comic-style illustrations by Jay Reed! Lionel Messi has taken the soccer world by storm. He scored the most goals in a season. He's racked up championships. There was even a statue built in his honor. Despite the accolades, he's still hungry for more goals, more championships, more opportunities to shine on the soccer pitch. Messi's drive to succeed has motivated him ever since he first stepped on his local, worn down field as a kid.Yet his success didn't come without bumps in the road. Diagnosed with a career-threatening medical condition at ten, Messi refused to give up on his dream, and went on to amass one of the greatest careers in sports history. Filled with sports action and bold illustrations, this thrilling biography details the rise of a living soccer legend.Praise for Epic Athletes* "An unusually informative and enjoyable sports biography for young readers." —Booklist, starred review for Epic Athletes: Stephen CurryCricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939 (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics)
By Benjamin Sacks. 2019
This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime,…
kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest between and within the categories of ‘colonisers’ and ‘colonised.’ How and why did Samoans adapt and appropriate the imperial game? How did officials, missionaries, colonists, soldiers and those with mixed foreign and Samoan heritage understand and respond to the real and symbolic challenges kirikiti presented? And how did Samoans use both games to navigate foreign colonialism(s)? By investigating these questions, Benjamin Sacks suggests alternative frameworks for conceptualising sporting transfer and adoption, and advances understandings of how power, politics and identity were manifested through sport, in Samoa and across the globe.Dry Tortugas National Park (Images of America)
By James A. Kushlan, Kirsten Hines. 2019
Isolated 70 miles west of Key West, the islands of Dry Tortugas National Park appear to arise as if by…
magic, floating atop the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered by Juan Ponce de León over 500 years ago, Tortugas is North America’s second-oldest persistent place name. The adjacent Florida Strait provided essential passageway for navies, ships of commerce, pirates, and privateers. Its reefs claimed hundreds of ships over the centuries. The nation’s largest masonry fort, Fort Jefferson, secured Union control of the Florida Strait during the Civil War and served as the infamous prison for Dr. Samuel Mudd and other convicted Lincoln conspirators. Its waters, coral reefs, and aquatic life remain among the most biologically intact in North America. Seabird species nest here that nest nowhere else on the continent. The Tortugas has attracted generations of naturalists, scientists, fishermen, divers, birders, and other visitors. The islands and waters of the Dry Tortugas remain today remote, historic, and biologically pristine.A History of Wrestling in Iowa: Growing Gold (Sports)
By Dan McCool. 1978
The state of Iowa is just as well known for prominent wrestlers as it is acres of corn and beans.…
That gives the state the mighty distinction of feeding the world and defeating it on the mat. Men like Dan Gable, Tom Brands, Harold Nichols, Jim Miller, Nick Mitchell and Chuck Patten led Iowa colleges to forty-four of an astounding sixty-nine national team championships. In 1954, Simon Roberts of Davenport was the first African American to win a state wrestling title and later the first African American NCAA wrestling champion. Wrestler Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize and is credited with preventing more than one billion deaths from starvation. Author Dan McCool details the long history of hard work and dedication from the fields to the mat.Entrevistados por el ex jugador estrella y actual comentarista deportivo Diego Latorre y el periodista Gustavo Noriega, seis futbolistas de…
primera línea cuentan sus experiencias, hablan de sus referentes y describen sus impresiones sobre el deporte más popular de la Argentina y su devenir, ayer y hoy. ¿Es posible hablar de fútbol sin sentirse preso de las rivalidades? ¿Puede un hincha de Boca apreciar a un jugador habilidoso de River, y viceversa? ¿Pueden conversar amablemente los hinchas de San Lorenzo y Huracán, Talleres y Belgrano, Racing e Independiente? La posibilidad de ver fútbol internacional debería haber engendrado un nuevo tipo de hincha, menos apegado a los colores de un equipo que a los talentos de un jugador o a un modelo de juego. Sin embargo, hoy más que nunca, el sentimiento de pertenencia se ha convertido en adhesión irracional, desborde, enemistad acérrima. La lógica brutal de los barrabravas se ha extendido a jugadores, dirigentes, parte del periodismo y hasta el público general. Pero hay esperanza: en este panorama en el que las agresiones son moneda corriente, es posible encontrar a unos cuantos futbolistas que se negaron a formar parte del gran circo del enfrentamiento y pusieron al deporte en el centro de sus preocupaciones. Deportistas destacados, adorados por hinchas propios y ajenos, capaces de crear en la cancha un espectáculo y de comportarse fuera de ella con un espíritu de cuerpo casi aristocrático, ajeno al insulto y la provocación: los jugadores exquisitos. En estas páginas se proponen una serie de encuentros con varios de estos futbolistas de elite. Abren el micrófono Gustavo Noriega y Diego Latorre, quien en sus años de jugador fue indiscutiblemente uno de ellos, delantero de enorme habilidad y gambeta desconcertante. Y se prestan generosamente al juego Diego Milito, Marangoni, Francescoli, Rinaldi, Márcico y Menotti: un inmejorable seleccionado de exquisitos.The millions of fans who watch World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) programs each year are well aware of their role in…
building the narrative of the sport. #WWE: Professional Wrestling in the Digital Age explores the intersections between media, technology, and fandom in WWE's contemporary programming and business practices. In the Reality Era of WWE (2011 to the present), wrestling narratives have increasingly drawn on real-life personalities and events that stretch beyond the story-world created and maintained by WWE. At the same time, the internet and fandom have a greater influence on the company than ever before. By examining various sites of struggle and negotiation between WWE executives and in-ring performers, between the product and its fans, and between the company and the rest of the wrestling industry, the contributors to this volume highlight the role of various media platforms in shaping and disseminating WWE narratives. Treating the company and its product not merely as sports entertainment, but also as a brand, an employer, a company, a content producer, and an object of fandom, #WWE conceptualizes the evolution of professional wrestling's most successful company in the digital era.Never Settle: Sports, Family, and the American Soul
By Marty Smith. 2019
The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay, Marty Smith, whose mission in this…
thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country. You know Marty right? The guy during College GameDay hanging off the back of a pickup truck while zooming around the Clemson athletic facilities. The guy who visits Nick Saban's lake house and somehow gets Coach to jump in the lake. The guy who sits down with Dale Jr. at Daytona to talk through tears about his miraculous return to racing. The guy who interviews Tiger Woods, Tim Tebow, Peyton Manning and Jimmie Johnson -- the guy who gets paid to live the fantasy of every sports fan in America.Never Settle is the funny but oh, it's true story of how Marty got here, and a revealing look at his journey. Never Settle includes all the best stories and behind-the-scenes moments from Marty's wild life, covering topics including: college football, racing, fathers and sons, how sports can bring us together, and how it all goes back to growing up on a farm and playing high school ball in Pearisburg, Virginia.Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other
By Ken Dryden. 2019
A hockey life like no other.A hockey book like no other.Scotty Bowman is recognized as the best coach in hockey…
history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Remarkably, despite all the changes in hockey, he coached at the very top for more than four decades, his first Cup win and his last an astonishing thirty-nine years apart. Yet perhaps most uniquely, different from anyone else who has ever lived or ever will again, he has experienced the best of hockey continuously since he was fourteen years old. With his precious standing room pass to the Montreal Forum, he saw "Rocket" Richard play at his peak every Saturday night. He saw Gordie Howe as a seventeen-year-old just starting out. He scouted Bobby Orr as a thirteen-year-old in Parry Sound, Ontario. He coached Guy Lafleur and Mario Lemieux. He coached against Wayne Gretzky. For the past decade, as an advisor for the Chicago Blackhawks, he has watched Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, and Connor McDavid. He has seen it all up close. Ken Dryden was a Hall-of-Fame goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens. His critically acclaimed and bestselling books have shaped the way we read and think about hockey. Now the player and coach who won five Stanley Cups together team up once again.In Scotty, Dryden has given his coach a new test: Tell us about all these players and teams you've seen, but imagine yourself as their coach. Tell us about their weaknesses, not just their strengths. Tell us how you would coach them and coach against them. And then choose the top eight teams of all time, match them up against one another in a playoff series, and, separating the near-great from the great, tell us who would win. And why.This book is about a life—a hockey life, a Canadian life, a life of achievement. It is Scotty Bowman in his natural element, behind the bench one more time.This hockey generation's brightest talent has been plagued by concussions. Now, the very style of play that has brought Crosby…
such success may be heralding the end of his career.Sidney Crosby is arguably the best player ever to put on skates. You could argue that Bobby was better, or Wayne, or Gordie. But it would be hard to argue that any of those guys changed the game as much as Sid. No defenceman came along in Bobby's wake to play like him. There will never be another 99. But in Crosby's case, the entire league was re-made in his image. The game can be divided into two eras: before and after Sidney Crosby arrived in 2005, breaking Mario Lemieux's rookie scoring record. Says NHL star Matt Duchene, who entered the league in 2008, just three years after Crosby: "Just in the time that I was going from peewee and bantam to junior, there was a whole other game before and after. You didn't have a choice really--you had to adapt and adopt the way he did things or get left way behind."In an effort to keep up with Sid, the game changed. It's faster now, more skilled. There are more highlight-reel goals, and fewer fights. And in many ways, Crosby has thrived. Three Stanley Cups. Two Olympic gold medals. A World Cup. And enough individual trophies to fill a truck. But then, if Crosby hadn't changed the league, he might expect a longer career. Today, Sidney Crosby is the first generational superstar whose every shift could be his last. He invented a faster game, and the faster game has taken its toll on its creator. Crosby has suffered several concussions, and missed most of an entire season with symptoms. He plays the game fearlessly, but he also plays it without a bodyguard.The irony is that he created a league that made it harder for him to thrive. And the tragedy may be that he has created a league that will bring his career to an end in one fell swoop, in front of millions.Telling the story of a generational talent and the way he has revolutionized the game, Gare Joyce will also bring into focus crucial questions about the way the game is played today, assessing fighting and concussions in the light of the way these issues impinge on arguably the greatest player ever to skate.Egan. El campeón predestinado
By Mauricio Silva. 2019
Egan Bernal se convirtió en el ciclista -y deportista- colombiano más importante de todos los tiempos al coronarse campeón del…
Tour de Francia en el 2019. Este es el relato de su vida y hazaña. Con tan solo 22 años y 192 días, Egan Bernal (de Zipaquirá, Colombia) se convirtió en el corredor más joven en ganar el Tour de Francia después de 110 años y en el primer latinoamericano en conquistarlo. Si Gabriel García Márquez estuviera vivo, seguro se hubiera inspirado en las premoniciones mágicas que rodearon su nacimiento, en la épica de sus hazañas y en el talento y la fortuna que lo han acompañado. Mauricio Silva Guzmán, reconocido periodista colombiano #apasionado por el ciclismo y los deportes en general#, se dio entonces a la tarea de reconstruir la historia del #predestinado#, y lo hizo desde mucho antes de que Bernal cruzara victorioso los Campos Elíseos el 28 de julio de 2019, porque, como algunas de las personas que lo han rodeado en su ascenso por la élite del ciclismo mundial,Silva también predijo que #el primer Tour para Colombia lo ganaría Egan#, y que el zipaquireño, además, sería una inmensa leyenda nacional. Y así fue. Esta es la historia del #Joven Maravilla# que nació para ser campeón.Sport Branding Insights (Sport Business Insights)
By Constantino Stavros, Aaron C.T. Smith. 2020
In a sporting world dominated by media and money, an understanding of sport branding is an essential skill for any…
sport manager. Success means being able to ‘brand’ – and therefore differentiate – a sport club, player, code, or event in a highly competitive entertainment market. For anyone seeking to understand or manage sport, this book offers an immediate and salient insight into the complex and dynamic process of creating a powerful sport brand. The book explains how a sport brand goes beyond just an identifying badge, reinforced by a name or a logo that helps sport consumers recognise a product or an organisation. It reveals how a brand becomes linked with consumers’ opinions and perceptions of a sport product and the organisation that owns it. Readers will learn how to create a powerful brand that has both recognition in the market and strong associated imagery, by imbuing it with a spirit of the past through appeals to tradition, by endowing it with human qualities of emotionality, thought, and volition, and through the use of characters, colours, texts, and symbols. It also provides a brief guide to the new domains of digital sport branding and social media. Concise, informative, and entertaining, this is an essential resource for anyone exploring or practising the business of sport.Moon Maui: With Molokai & Lanai (Travel Guide)
By Greg Archer. 2019
Endless stretches of golden sand, legendary surf, and epic outdoor experiences: Discover the true spirit of aloha with Moon Maui.…
Inside you'll find:Flexible itineraries, from your best day in each region to a ten-day Maui adventure, with coverage of neighboring islands Moloka'i and Lana'iStrategic advice for backpackers, beach-lovers, adventurers, honeymooners, families, wellness-seekers, and moreOutdoor adventures like kayaking, hiking, and scuba-diving, plus the best beaches for swimming, surfing, and snorkelingTop activities and unique experiences: Drive the famous 30-mile Road to Hana or bike through misty hidden valleys. Hike through thick bamboo forests to thundering waterfalls or to the top of a dormant volcano. Snorkel with giant green sea turtles, learn how to catch the perfect wave, or embark on a whale-watching tour. Soak up the electric energy of Front Street in Lahaina, unwind at a luxurious spa, or relax on the sand and watch the sunset with a mai tai in hand The best local flavors: Chow down on fresh fish tacos from a local food truck, savor Polynesian cuisine, and sip coconut porter beer at Hawaii's largest breweryExpert insight from Maui local Greg Archer on how to experience the island like an insider, support local and sustainable businesses, avoid crowds, and respectfully engage with the cultureFull-color photos and detailed maps throughoutBackground information on Maui's landscape, history, and cultural customsHandy tools including a Hawaiian phrasebook, packing suggestions, and travel tips for international visitors, families with kids, seniors and LGBTQ travelersWith Moon's practical tips and local know-how, you can experience the best of Maui.Hitting more Hawaiian Islands? Try Moon Big Island of Hawai'i, Moon Kaua'i, and Moon Honolulu & O'ahu. Visiting all of them? Check out Moon Hawaii.Hierdie boek is bedoel om 50+ Gevorderde Liggaams Gewig Krag Oefeninge voor te stel. Dit bevat gedetaileerde stap vir stap…
instruksies oor hoe om elke oefening te doen. Hierdie boek verken ook die aangepasde vorms van sommige liggaams gewig oefeninge wat gebruik word in sports oefeninge. Elkeen van die oefeninge wat in hierdie boek voorkom vereis slegs minimale toerusting soos stoele, toue en bars. Die persoon wat die oefening doen kan altyd die toerusting afwissel met items wat eners is en beskikbaar is by die huis. Daar is nie nodig om na ‘n gymnasium te gaan om hierdie oefeninge te doen nie. Hulle kan in die huis of in jou agter erf gedoen word. Geniet die lees!WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
By Abby Wambach. 2019
Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling…
author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power, unite with their pack, and emerge victorious together.Abby Wambach became a champion because of her incredible talent as a soccer player. She became an icon because of her remarkable wisdom as a leader. As the co-captain of the 2015 Women’s World Cup Champion Team, she created a culture not just of excellence, but of honor, commitment, resilience, and sisterhood. She helped transform a group of individual women into one of the most successful, powerful and united Wolfpacks of all time. In her retirement, Abby’s ready to do the same for her new team: All Women Everywhere. In Wolfpack, Abby’s message to women is: We have never been Little Red Riding Hood. We Are the Wolves. We must wander off the path and blaze a new one: together. She insists that women must let go of old rules of leadership that neither include or serve them. She’s created a new set of Wolfpack rules to help women unleash their individual power, unite with their Wolfpack, and change the landscape of their lives and world: from the family room to the board room to the White House. · Make failure your fuel: Transform failure to wisdom and power. · Lead from the bench: Lead from wherever you are. · Champion each other: Claim each woman’s victory as your own. · Demand the effing ball: Don’t ask permission: take what you’ve earned. In Abby’s vision, we are not Little Red Riding Hoods, staying on the path because we’re told to. We are the wolves, fighting for a better tomorrow for ourselves, our pack, and all the future wolves who will come after us. A New York Times BestsellerThe Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
By Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt. 1997
Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb,…
Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way down the mountain as darkness approached. Alone and climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. This new edition includes a transcript of the Mountain Madness expedition debriefing recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston DeWalt's response to Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer.Sport and Mediatization (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)
By Kirsten Frandsen. 2020
Contemporary society is highly media-saturated, and no sector more so than sport. Drawing on case studies from the Tour de…
France to fitness apps, this book introduces the concept of ‘mediatization’ and examines how media - historically and currently – are significant drivers for social and cultural change in sport. Utilizing different analytical approaches, case studies illustrate how so-called legacy media have historically been involved in the establishment of the institution of sport and have persistently been heavily involved in structural changes in the same domain. However, digital media currently add significantly to the development of a more complex picture of globalized interdependencies and still growing media presence in all aspects of the everyday lives of both sporting organizations, athletes and audiences/fans. The book seeks to eschew media centrism, acknowledging that changes are not only ’driven’ by media but also related to other macro-social forces of change, such as globalization, commercialization, and individualization. Offering a new analytical framework, Sport and Mediatization enables students and scholars in the transdisciplinary field of media and sports studies to analyze and understand the influence of media in a much more complex environment.Analyzing the key players and political moments in women’s professional tennis since 1968, this book explores the historical lineage of social…
activism within women’s tennis and the issues, expressions, risks and effects associated with each cohort of players. Drawing on original qualitative research, including interviews with former players, the book examines tennis’s position in debates around gender, sexuality, race and equal pay. It looks at how the actions and choices of the pioneering activist players were simultaneously shaped by, and had a part in shaping, larger social movements committed to challenging the status quo and working towards increased economic equality for women. Taking an intersectional approach, the book assesses the significance of players from Althea Gibson and Martina Navratilova to Venus and Serena Williams, illuminating our understanding of the relationship between sport, social justice and wider society. This is important reading for researchers and students working in sport studies, sociology, women’s studies, and political science, as well as anybody with an interest in social activism and social movements. It is also a fascinating read for the general tennis fan.Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production (Critical Issues In Sport And Society Ser.)
By Jennifer J. Sterling, Mary G. McDonald. 2020
Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The…
collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape – from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.This book deals with the events leading up to the 1936 Popular Olympics which would have united the Popular Front…
in opposition to the Berlin Olympics. It also discusses the days after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War which began on the same day the games were due to start. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources, the book traces the biographies of several Popular Olympians who would go on to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. The book also examines the planned events and locations for the Popular Olympics as well as the international funding that the games secured. The book argues that the events were a departure from Workers’ Sport as well as the IOC’s Olympic games and represented an important cultural manifestation of the Popular Front.