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  • 'Race', Ethnicity and Racism in Sports Coaching

    Edited by Steven Bradbury, Jim Lusted, Jacco van Sterkenburg ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Sport and Leisure
    In recent years there has been a steady increase in the racial and ethnic diversity of the playing workforce in many sports around the world. However, there has been a minimal throughput of racial and ethnic minorities into coaching and leadership positions. This book brings together leading researchers from around the world to examine key questions around ‘race’, ethnicity and racism in sports ... Read more

    $55.00 USD

  • Managing Sport

    Social and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by David Hassan, Jim Lusted ...
    Series series Foundations of Sport Management
    Contemporary sport is shaped by wider society. Today those managing sport must be aware of the broader social and cultural context within which it exists if their effectiveness is to be established and their careers defined. This book is the first of its kind to contextualise the wider social and cultural environment of sport management and explain the key issues and practical implications of this ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The System

    The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

    by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian ...
    A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearNCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The McDavid Effect

    Connor McDavid and the New Hope for Hockey

    by Marty Klinkenberg ...
    Step into the streets, arenas, coffee shops, and offices of Edmonton, and witness how the arrival of a teenage hockey phenomenon is changing the city’s fortunes.Once known as the City of Champions, Edmonton is at a crossroads. As oil prices continue to plummet, the economic outlook grows bleaker by the day. Political changes have ushered in an era of uncertainty. And, as though mirroring the city ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bad Sports

    How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

    by Dave Zirin ...
    A THOUGHT-PROVOKING LOOK AT THE BIG BUSINESS AND IMMORAL PRACTICES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BY ACCLAIMED SPORTSWRITER DAVE ZIRIN, HAILED AS THE “CONSCIENCE OF AMERICAN SPORTSWRITING” (THE WASHINGTON POST )The fastest-growing sector of today’s sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new ... Read more

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  • Twin Tracks

    The Autobiography

    by Roger Bannister ...
    It was a blustery late spring day in 1954 and a young Oxford medical student flung himself over the line in a mile race. There was an agonising pause, and then the timekeeper announced the record: three minutes, fifty-nine point four seconds. But no one heard anything after that first word - 'three'. One of the most iconic barriers of sport had been broken, and Roger Bannister had become the first ... Read more

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  • Hard Courts

    Real Life on the Professional Tennis Tours

    by John Feinstein ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Season Inside presents a thrilling behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional tennis, with in-depth analyses of players, tournaments, and the inner machinations of the sport.“Hard Courts is the best book on professional tennis that I’ve ever read. . . . You won’t feel the same about the game—guaranteed.”—LARRY KINGWhen I first decided to write ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Billion Dollar Game

    Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport - Super Bowl Sunday

    by Allen St. John ...
    A fascinating portrait of the National Football League, the Super Bowl, and all the position players who come together to create the biggest cultural phenomenon in American sports.Think the Super Bowl is only about two teams of titans clashing on the field? Think again. The Super Bowl is about fans, hundreds of millions of fans. It’s about money, more money than the GDP of twenty-five sovereign ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Lords of the Realm

    The Real History of Baseball

    by John Helyar ...
    "The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."—The New York Times Book ReviewBaseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game.In this fascinating, colorful chronicle—based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging—John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary ... Read more

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  • Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated

    The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series

    by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan ...
    With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Club

    Living the Dream at the bottom of English Football

    by Simon Akam ...
    Series series Newsweek Insights
    English Football has over 92 fully professional clubs. Players in the Premier League teams now earn an average salary of £2.3 million per annum. Meanwhile, on the bottom rung, entire squads make less in a year than Wayne Rooney takes home in a month. An army of young players sacrifice their education and prospects outside of sport for the dream of football success, despite that fact that 85% will ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Baseball Economist

    The Real Game Exposed

    by J.C. Bradbury ...
    Freakonomics meets Moneyball in this provocative exposé of baseball’s most fiercely debated controversies and some of its oldest, most dearly held myths.Providing far more than a mere collection of numbers, economics professor and popular blogger J.C. Bradbury shines the light of his economic thinking on baseball, exposing the power of tradeoffs, competition, and incentives. Utilizing his own ... Read more

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