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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2115 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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Not exactly the Jordan Rules
If you're looking for an inside the lockerroom, behind the scenes style book about the Phoenix Suns, then this really isn't what you want. This book, I assume, is a direct fallout from the famous Sam Smith Jordan Rules book, because it is quite evident that Tulumello is not traveling with the team or with the club anymore than a normal reporter. That does not make this book a bad book, but rather not as intimate as many Suns fans would have hoped.

I am a Phoenix Suns fan and a huge Kevin Johnson fan. First of all, the author mentions KJ's performance during the 94-95 Houston series at least a dozen times, yet not once does he mention the Hakeem dunk rated as the 4th best of all on NBA Shootaround this year. So, obviously his credibility is shot to me.
On a serious note, I was hoping to see a personal side of KJ, or at least have some glimpse into what made him tick. Not only do I not come away with that, I don't get that intimacy with ANYONE on the team.

The author uses public comments and quotations frequently throughout the piece, not a bad thing. But because we don't have a second look at the personas of these players, it in turn produces one dimensional cardboard characters. No one outside Colangelo, the players and coaches are looked at at length, which reinforces the notion of distance between the players and the reader.
Here is what the book is, right or wrong, good or bad. This book is more or less a running diary of the times and tribulations of the Suns during the 95-96 season. You get background on the playing careers of Barkley, KJ, Majerle, Hot Rod Williams, Danny Manning along with the professional histories of Colangelo, Fitzsimmons, and Westphal. The remainder of the book contemplates the inevitable exit of Barkley and mentions one amusing Barkley prank, but more or less is simly a recap of every game the Suns played.
I could easily have seen this book being printed as an insert in the Arizona Republic recapping the season because of the bland, dry, and stock fashion the material is presented. So, if you're looking to relive the old times of the Suns, great book. If you're looking for the Jordan Rules about the Suns, this isn't what you are looking for.

outrageous!
If you really want the inside dope on how the Suns screwed up their championship hopes, read this book. It certainly paints Charles Barkley in a bad light, but then again he is not alone in the failure of the Suns to win the whole thing. So the book does do justice to not just explaining Sir Charles's last season w. Phx., but also the whole Barkley era in Phx. As a big Barkley fan, it gave me pause for thought as to whether he has what it takes to win it all. No doubt he's a Hall of Fame player, a great jokester, but his dedication to winning it all seems lacking. Still he has given the game a whole lot more than most. For that I am grateful and the book does show him warts and all to be one of the true characters of sports. And these days we need guys like him to make sports fun! Highly recommended even if you hate Sir Charles. ... Read more

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Charles Barkley, five-time NBA all-star, looks back at his life and basketball career in the same no-holds-barred fashion with which he views everything. Full of his shoot-from-the-lip opinions and outlandish exploits, this book, like the man himself, can only be described as outrageous. 8 pages of photographs. ... Read more

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From the horse's mouth itself
Charles Barkley is a NBA legend, cultural icon, and a brash black man who writes his complaints down into books instead of rapping them away on albums.This book is full of complaints from the Round Mound of Rebound.He complains about the NBA, other players, referees, the management at several franchises, America's parents, America's teenagers, and of course, himself.This is Barkley's first book, and in it he describes his youth, his entry into basketball, his days in college, and finally his life in the NBA.He goes over some of the challenges he had in his life and how he came to overcome them.He also talks about the people he has encountered in his life, such as his family members, teammates such as Rick Mahorn, Moses Malone, and Dr. J, and opponents such as Michael Jordan and Bill Laimbeer.Through it all, he writes with wit, comedy, and the occasional bad word.The book is good reading, and easy reading at it, though not appropriate for anyone under 13 years old in my mind.

Speaking The Truth
Speaking The Truth

This book that I've read was called Outrageous Charles Barkley.The book is mainly about a young talented man who went to the NBA to become one of the greatest basketball players of all time.Charles speaks the truth because even though he can dunk a basketball doesn't mean he should raise your children.What he is trying to say is kids have role models and they try to be just like then in many ways.So if your child watches and follows those role models moves, then he or she is going to be in trouble.He also meant that it is not his job to raise your kids because he is they role model.

What I like about this book is that Charles Barkley is speaking the truth in many ways.The book talks about everything that a person would think or say about the book before they actually read it.He talks about his personal life and how he is paid to play basketball.So if he was to get in trouble outside of the basketball world don't think he is a bad person because ever one makes mistakes all throughout life.

Now what I didn't like about the book is when he speaks about things I want him to keep going and don't stop until every little information is said and done.Another reason is the people in the story weren't really talking about to many details but they could have done better.My main reason for not liking this book is because they did not have a whole lot of pictures to describe the scene of the situation.

Speaking The Truth
Speaking The Truth

This book that I've read was called Outrageous Charles Barkley.The book is mainly about a young talented man who went to the NBA to become one of the greatest basketball players of all time.Charles speaks the truth because even though he can dunk a basketball doesn't mean he should raise your children.What he is trying to say is kids have role models and they try to be just like then in many ways.So if your child watches and follows those role models moves, then he or she is going to be in trouble.He also meant that it is not his job to raise your kids because he is they role model.

What I like about this book is that Charles Barkley is speaking the truth in many ways.The book talks about everything that a person would think or say about the book before they actually read it.He talks about his personal life and how he is paid to play basketball.So if he was to get in trouble outside of the basketball world don't think he is a bad person because ever one makes mistakes all throughout life.

Now what I didn't like about the book is when he speaks about things I want him to keep going and don't stop until every little information is said and done.Another reason is the people in the story weren't really talking about to many details but they could have done better.My main reason for not liking this book is because they did not have a whole lot of pictures to describe the scene of the situation.

SIR CHarles Doesn't Front
I have Always Respected Charles Barkley's Game.THe Brother Can Ball&for his Size he is something else.but even better has been his Honesty about the Nba.He Rips into all kinds of Issues&it's the marksolidly.The NBA needs More Brothers Like Charles who tells it like it is.Heis a Winner.this book keeps your full attention.

good honest,insightful as only barkley could
AS A CHARLES BARKLEY FAN THIS BOOK ALLOWS A READ BETWEEN THE LINES APPROACH TO THE COMPLICATEDMAN KNOWN AS CHARLES BARKLEY. ... Read more

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Title: Canasteando. (notas de jugadores de baloncesto; octubre de 1997)(TT: Playing hoops) (TA: notes of basketball players; October 1997)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 16, 1997
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v4Issue: n243Page: p15(1)

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Title: ¡Pippen: que te vaya bien!(Scotty Pippen, basketbolista)(TT: Pippen: so long!)(TA: Scotty Pippen, basketball player)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 7, 1999
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 6Issue: 345Page: 25

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Title: Seis y van cero. (los Rockets de Houston durante la temporada del baloncesto profesional 1996-97)(TT: Six and nothing) (TA: the Houston Rockets during the 1996-97 professional basketball season)
Author: David Canul
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 14, 1996
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v3Issue: n196Page: p14(1)

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