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Red Hot and Rollin': A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers' 1976-77 NBA Championship Season w/DVD
by Matt Love  Publisher Comments On June 5, 1977 the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers to win their first and only NBA Championship. The next day, two hundred and fifty thousand fans jammed downtown Portland to celebrate in what remains the largest public gathering...
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Counting Coup : a True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn (00 Edition)
by Larry Colton Publisher Comments Now in paperback, this work by freelance journalist Colton is a brilliant account of a teenage Native American girl who fought for honor on and off the basketball courts. 8-page photo insert....
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Modern History of Japan : From Tokugawa Times To the Present (03 Edition)
by Andrew Gordon Publisher Comments In The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. He takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal...
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Wooden : a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (97 Edition)
by John Wooden Publisher Comments Evoking days gone by when coaches were expected as much for their off-court performance as for their success on the court, this unique and intimate work presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling...
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee’s first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the...
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The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson Publisher Comments For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers' 2003 &2004 high-wire act, this book is a rare and phenomenal treat. In The Last Season, Lakers coach Phil Jackson draws on his trademark honesty and insight to tell the...
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The City Game: From the Garden to the Playgrounds
by Pete Axthelm Publisher Comments Pete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clearly, intelligently, and passionately about the game...
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Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball
by Pamela Grundy Publisher Comments Offering a sweeping chronicle of the history of women's basketball in the United States, the authors provide portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars, as well as exploring the sport's relationship to changing ideas of womanhood. Photos....
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Heaven Is a Playground ((Rev)04 Edition)
by Rick Telander Publisher Comments In 1974 Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Foster Park. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives, and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as...
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John Starks: My Life with DVD
by John Starks Publisher Comments John Starks: My Life chronicles John Starks' miraculous ascension from going undrafted after one just one season at Oklahama State to his stellar career with the New York Knicks. Fans remember his memorable career in New York, capsuled by two remarkable,...
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Coaching Basketball Rev Edition
by Jerry Krause Publisher Comments Hone your coaching skills with these coaching legends as your mentors Imagine gathering a roomful of legendary basketball coaches from all levels and tapping their knowledge of the game. You would learn the strength of leadership from Coach K, understand...
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My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey
by John Wooden Publisher Comments NATIONAL BESTSELLER For John Wooden's millions of fans--a heartfelt and revealing self-portrait about the people and events that shaped his life Sports Illustrated declared: "There has never been a finer coach in American sports than John Wooden. Nor a...
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Women of the Court: Inside the WNBA
by Juliette Terzieff Publisher Comments With over ten million fans, the WNBA has transcended sport and become a cultural phenomenon all across the country. Nearly two million people attended a WNBA game last season, and seven out of ten in attendance were women. With games airing on such...
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Hoop Roots
by John Edgar Wideman 
Publisher Comments 'Hoop Roots is John Edgar Wideman's memoir of discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitably, the story of the roots of black basketball in America — a story inextricable from race...
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Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph, the
by Ben Joravsky
Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to life all the richness and subtlety of the experiences of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two gifted urban hoopsters determined to make it to the NBA, in this intimate, suspenseful, and heart...
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The Jump: Sebastian Telfair and the High-Stakes Business of High School Ball
by Ian O'Connor Publisher Comments On NBA draft night, June 24, 2004, high school senior Sebastian Telfair awaited his future inside a suite at the Trump International Hotel. One of the most hyped high school players of all time, with a $20 million Adidas deal in hand, Sebastian found...
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More Than an Athlete
by Etan Thomas Publisher Comments Etan Thomas is More Than An Athlete. In this, his first collection of poems, Thomas defies the stereotype of the a-political athlete, and plants his roots in his budding literary career. With the conviction of a Bill Russell, and the poetic finesse of...
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Eagle Blue: Team, Tribe and High School... (06 Edition)
by Dorso Publisher Comments "Eagle Blue "follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March. With...
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Game On!: How Women's Basketball Took Seattle by Storm
by Jayda Evans Publisher Comments "Game On!" tells the heady story of women's basketball in Seattle -- and beyond -- through the careers of three of its players who embody the sport's past, present, and future. Written by the only reporter to follow the team since its inception, the book...
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The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson and Michael Arkush Publisher Comments One of the most successful coaches in the history of basketball offers his personal account of a season like no other — the extraordinary ride of the 2003–2004 Los Angeles Lakers. Nine-time NBA Champion coach Phil Jackson knows all about...
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