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With pressure to perform free from error-an impossibility-in America's most popular sport, the work done by football officials has become more difficult than ever. A Tough Job Made Harder explores how this has happened as well as the challenges that lie ahead for the game and its officials.
Cultural imperatives grounded in team allegiance has increased the stresses on football's judges to invariably, "get it right." Officials offer the path of least...
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If necessity has been the mother of invention throughout the history of professional football, it could also be said that desperation is the father. Rare are the football innovations that have occurred without an owner, general manager, coach, or player up against the wall and reaching for a way to succeed anyway. In this meticulously researched, lively book, Bleacher Report lead NFL scout Doug Farrar traces the schematic history of the pro game through...
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Pendant 16 ans, Frédéric Waseige a foulé les pelouses en tant que footballeur professionnel au sein des clubs RFC Liège, KAA Gent, AC Bellinzona, Alemannia Aachen... Aujourd'hui, micro à la main, il en arpente les contours en tant que journaliste sportif, se perdant dans les coulisses à la recherche de la rencontre, de l'interview, de la belle histoire ou de l'anecdote. Ses chroniques sont parfois féroces, souvent drles et tendres mais jamais...
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Get the Summary of James Wilson & Basketball's How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 days in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How to Be Better At Basketball in 21 days" by James Wilson & Basketball is a comprehensive guide that focuses on both the mental and physical aspects of improving basketball skills. The book emphasizes the importance of a team's philosophy, which goes beyond winning games to include values...
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Adrian Webster wants his coaching book to be different. This book shares his views and experiences of having been involved in the game as a player, coach and manager at youth, college and pro levels.
He started to get involved in coaching when he first joined the Seattle Sounders in 1974. Because you have played the game, doesn't necessarily make you a good coach, this was another thing he took on-board from his first coach, John Best. You need to...
106) Talent To Triumph
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Talented athletes across all sports don't always go on to fulfil their true potential.
The ratio of those that do, compared to those that don't is incredibly small.
You mightn't have found the right sport for you, you might have faced setbacks, barriers, bad luck or lack of facilities. You mightn't have the knowledge required to optimise your performance, look after your wellbeing or take a long-term approach to your sporting journey.
This book is...
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From the movie Concussion to Colin Kaepernick's controversial kneel, the sport of football has seen its fair share of debate over the past few years. With all this scrutiny, some fans are starting to ask: What lies ahead for the game? Are these the signs of a dying sport? Is there still hope for this old pastime?
In appreciation of the NFL's 100th season, The NFL at 100 is an in-depth look at the past, present, and future of America's favorite sport....
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If you are a high school basketball coach, you are probably just like me. Most of my life I attended clinic after clinic listening to famous college coaches tell me about their programs. I purchased books and read as many philosophies as a young man could read. I watched so many hours of video. I knew offense and defense as good as any coach in my field but wasn't really getting the results I wanted. But then I realized my approach was totally wrong....
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A hands-on, illuminating deconstruction of NBA basketball, tracing the tactical evolution of the modern game
As the NBA celebrates and surpasses 75 years of existence, today's game looks nothing like it did in generations past when Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took turns ruling the league. But it's also entirely different from a decade-even half decade-ago.
Today's stars enter the league with more versatility and fluidity...
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"Like the Moneyball of college football, Three and Out blows the lid off one of the sports world's most perplexing mysteries."-Entertainment Weekly
Three and Out tells the story of how college football's most influential coach took over the nation's most successful program, only to produce three of the worst seasons in the histories of both Rich Rodriguez and the University of Michigan. Shortly after his controversial move from West Virginia, where...
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Basketball was originally designed to be a team game, but today's players are growing up in a culture that focuses on the individual. In Teamwork, Mike Huff calls coaches and athletes to return to basketball's essence, by focusing on The 7 Essentials of Teamwork: communication, leadership, humility, roles, team spirit, a winning attitude, and collective responsibility. The lessons in this book will enable coaches to teach life lessons that help players...
112) Alternativa metodológica para el entrenamiento de la resistencia para la competición en la altura
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La presente investigación parte del tratamiento teórico realizado al entrenamiento en el fútbol y particulariza las principales concepciones abordadas sobre la preparación física, la capacidad física resistencia y la diversidad de su tratamiento metodológico, se hace referencia al entrenamiento en la altura, manifestaciones en los atletas y características de su adaptación. Los resultados del diagnóstico fáctico realizado en el equipo de...
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When coach Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa in 2007, he boldly proclaimed We want to be a champion in everything that we do. Since that time, Alabama has won three national championships and become the nations number one destination for recruits and the top source of NFL talent while simultaneously graduating its players. No other program has won more games, captured more awards, or come close to approaching the kind of consistent success as the Crimson...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics presents the Relative Performance Grading (RPG) system of statistical measures, which ends all arguments over how good college football teams are relative to one another. Using grammar school mathematics and a dash of ingenious reasoning, Mike Nemeth exposes the need for, and then invents, a new set of statistical measures to explain how and why one team wins and another loses a college football game. The new statistics...
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Whoever claims winning isn't everything obviously has not spoken with an athletic coach.
Coaching the Mental Game offers coaches of all sports a definitive volume for effectively understanding an athlete's mental awareness, which in turn will help drive success. Author H. A. Dorfman details appropriate coaching strategies aimed at perfecting the player's mental approach to performance.
Coaching the Mental Game will become the Bible for coaches who...
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Coaches: Win more games by teaching your players the fundamental skills, intangibles and finer points of the game that other coaches don't know. Help your players eliminate costly turnovers by learning to read the defense, score more points by fine tuning your fast break and improve your offensive attack skills.
Players: Take your game to another level by learning the skills and details of the game the elite players know. Learn how character issues...
117) The Crackerjack Gang
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The Crackerjack Gang is a collection of the most unorthodox, but sincerely exceptional, group of baseball players I coached over the last twenty (20) years. If you coach long enough, in any sport, you come to appreciate the true Crackerjacks every year on your team. Crackerjack players make the long hours logged on the field and the monotony of team drills worth every second. Whether it's the hours spent cramped in uncomfortable team vans, weekend...
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Are you looking to take your soccer game to the next level? That little extra could be in your home, backyard or in the off-season.
Whether it's an extremely harsh winter of an off-season, a pandemic caused by an extremely infectious pathogen or you just have too much of a break between games, your soccer game can stagnate. And then, you start playing again, and it takes a few weeks to get back to the same level. And, you are behind other players...
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For any basketball coach...
Whatever the level or years of experience, KNOWLEDGE is POWER. The more knowledge, the more opportunity for growth in multiple areas.
"Victory Is in the Details: Building a Basketball Program" supplies both knowledge and growth. Philosophies, concepts, drills, fundamentals, and advice from prominent coaches spice the acronym "P-R-O-G-R-A-M" as the prominent structure of this book. This book's abundance of details will...
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A tribute to the late Dean Smith, called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame. When he retired as North Carolina's basketball coach in 1997, Dean Smith was the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men's basketball history, leading the Tar Heels to an unprecedented 879 wins in a career that began in 1961. By 2015, when Smith passed away at the age of 83, the coach had become something of a living legend. Beloved by fans and players alike,...
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