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1) Miracle Road
Author
Series
Eternity Springs novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
As their lives come together in Eternity Springs, Colorado, ex-college basketball coach, Lucca Romano, and schoolteacher, Hope Montgomery, seek to find peace from their own personal demons.
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Language
English
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"Did I ever tell you about Wilt Chamberlain?" "Did I ever tell you about Bob Cousy?" "Did I ever tell you about Joe DiMaggio?" Whenever Arnold "Red" Auerbach starts a sentence with those six words — "Did I ever tell you about . . ." — anyone within earshot should prepare to hear a marvelous story.
As a living legend among sports fans, Red Auerbach — the fiery coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships, eight of them consecutive...
As a living legend among sports fans, Red Auerbach — the fiery coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships, eight of them consecutive...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of the legendary coach of the Georgetown Hoyas, whose achievements on and off the basketball court reflect America's unresolved struggle with racial justice. After five decades at the center of race and sports in America, Thompson was ready to make the private public, and he completed this autobiography shortly before his death. His book drives us through his childhood under JIm Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning....
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, a division of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The definitive biography of college basketball's all-time winningest coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and...
5) The way back
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...
Author
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1995, c1983
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky enthralls in this powerful novel first published in 1983, of a man, a woman, and the exciting game of love. Magazine writer Nia Phillips latest assignment is a feature on east Coast's five most eligible bachelors. But her research hits a snag when she meets number five, Daniel Strahan, the head coach for Boston professional basketball team. Daniel wants no part of the story, and though he refuses...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Picture Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to play basketball. They didn't know whom they would play against. But when they came face to face with their opponents, they quickly realized this secret game was going to make history. McLendon, John B. Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated...
8) The way back
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Dixon, a 28-year-old women's basketball coach at the United States Military Academy, led the West Point team to its first appearance in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Four weeks later, Maggie died suddenly, leaving behind a devastated family and a group of heartbroken players. Despite their tragic loss, friends, family, and team members took comfort in knowing that the values Maggie instilled in themselves and others would live on. In The...
10) Knight: my story
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
11) Play for keeps
Author
Series
Love games (Maggie Wells) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mixing business and pleasure is a dangerous game...Tyrell Ransom, the new men's basketball coach, is ready to whip his team into shape and start winning some games. But when compromising photos of his soon-to-be-ex-wife with one of his players go viral, everything comes crashing down. With reporters thick on the ground, Ty and his team need some serious damage control-now. When public relations guru Millie Jenkins arrives in her leopard-print cape...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent "us"? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It's one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball's greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach's Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Players First, John Calipari relates for the first time anywhere his experiences over his first four years coaching the Kentucky Wildcats, college basketball's most fabled program, from the doldrums to a national championship, drawing lessons about leadership, character, and the path to personal and collective victory. At its core, Calipari's coaching philosophy centers on keeping his focus on the players--what they need to get the best out of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller
"On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book." - Bill Bradley, New York Times Book Review
In Red and Me, Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell pays homage to his mentor and coach, the inimitable Red Auerbach. A poignant...
Author
Publisher
Sports Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"The Divine Nature of Basketball: My Season Inside the Ivy League describes a season spent as a virtual coach in the Ivy League. Shadowing head coach of Yale men's basketball James Jones and bird-dogging his team from first practice to final game, Ed Breslin fulfills every college basketball fan's fantasy of being an NCAA Division I coach."--
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Even if you thought you knew everything about basketball legend Larry Bird, this book is full of surprises. Bird speaks with amazing candor, offering a personal and honest look at his career with the Celtics, his experience with the '92 Olympics Dream Team, and his transition from superstar player to respected coach. Bird offers striking revelations about his health problems and how they shaped the man and his game. He shows how the things he learned...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the "Zen master" half in jest by sportswriters, but the nickname speaks to an important truth: this is a coach who inspired, not goaded; who led by awakening...