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Fantastic!
This book is fabulous! I bought this book out of recommendation from a friend and it is worth every penny. The book is complete with an explanation of why food affects the human body so much, the right foods to eat for a complete and nutritious vegan diet and so much more info.

This book is incredibly complete and a wonderful educational book for vegans and non-vegans who are looking to improve their diet and in turn, their athletic performance. I would suggest this book to everyone.

Get it for the recipes, not the science
The good: A focus on vegan athlete nutrition with pretty good recipes and nutritional recommendations.
The bad:The science and explanations behind the foods are inaccurate and lacking.

The good, in a bit more detail:If you're looking for good recipes for post-workout shakes, etc., "Thrive" is a good source.As others have noted, most of the recipes are from basic foods, if some that we may not all have in our pantries yet.Brazier's later books tend to have a lot of recipes that say "buy my Vega stuff and mix...", but this one doesn't.The recipes are athlete-tested (less likely to make you feel sick when eating them during a workout!).The mix of nutritional and "when to eat what" advice is good, and matches well with what other sources recommend, but translated into a framework that works well for the vegan athlete.The recipes have variety, and in many cases, incorporate a set of protein sources that other books don't.I haven't seen another source of recipes for vegan energy bars or energy gels.

The bad:If you're looking for an accurate and clear explanation of the science behind it, don't buy this one -- buy "Eat to Live" (Fuhrman), "The Spectrum" (Ornish), "The China Study" (Campbell), or "The Get Healthy, Go Vegan Cookbook" (Barnard), or perhaps "The Food Revolution" (Robbins).Brazier's explanations of the rationale behind his recommendations are scientifically bogus, falling back on claims about live enzymes aiding nutrition and broad categories of "alkaline" foods, and a fairly wacko theory about refined foods taking more energy to digest than you get out of them.

The union of these two makes for a book that is reasonable to have on your bookshelf, particularly given the lack of other good vegan-athlete targeted cookbooks, but that makes you want to gnash your teeth in frustration every few pages when the author veers off into another unsubstantiated theory.Despite that, though, the recipes are reasonable, and the food sources are great.Just know what you're getting before you buy it.

no weekly shopping list =gigantic headache
i wholeheartedly agree with everything brian talks about.the only thing is is that he includes no weekly shopping list for all the recipes for a given week.and since all the recipes for the dishes are in one section in the back of the book, i had to constantly flip back and forth from the weekly meal plan section to the recipes section in order to figure out what and how much of what i needed to buy for the week!

this might not seem so bad, but bear in mind that this is a 12 week plan with 6 scheduled meals that need to cooked/made per day, so 12x7x6 = 504!!504 recipes you need to flip back and forth for in order to figure out the logistics of how each dish's ingredients will end up in your kitchen!a lot of the ingredients are fairly exotic too, so it's not like you can head to your local grocery store the weekend before, say, the start of week 3 and expect to find all the ingredients.you would need to prepare way in advance and shop online for those ingredients so that you'll have them at the start of the designated week, or else you simply can't continue the diet.

it is so unfortunate, because i truly believe that plant based diets are superior, however, to try to break down the ingredient list was so time consuming and a nightmare.

if brian or his publisher had some forethought and tried to make it easier to stick to what is an already labor intensive diet plan, i would've given this book 5 STARS.but the fact that it is so user unfriendly and prohibitively difficult to figure out left this book collecting dust on my bookshelf.

Eat your veggies and fruits
We should be eating a diet consisting primarily of vegetables and fruits.I'd heard that, but another reminder is always good.

Beyond this basic advice, the book contains many scientific explanations about the effects of stress on the body, the relationship between stress and diet, pH-balancing the body, etc. which unfortunately are not footnoted and therefore are unverifiable.Since the author is not a scientist himself, I have a hard time accepting his explanations purely on faith.

To put it another way, in the absence of science, why should I believe this diet any more than I should believe the competing Atkins or Paleo diet books telling me to eat mostly meat?Yet another diet recommends fermented foods, and yet others swear by spirulina (not mentioned in this book).Without data, these are all no more than diet "religion."

Maybe it's all true.As presented in this book, it just isn't very convincing.(Another credibility damager: this book recommends hemp powder a few times, without mentioning its completely foul taste.)

References are listed at the end, but without much explanation, making any specific claim, and the book is full of them, near impossible to check.

Awesome book, Awesome recipies
I bought this book because I was looking for a way to eat better food as a vegetarian.
I don't need to loose weight.I just need to make better choices about what I eat.This book makes that very easy.i have bought several other books on nutrition for vegetarians.Most of the recipes take hours to prepare, and you need 5000 ingredients on hand at any given time to make even the simplest recipe.This book is different.After initially spending 2-300 on the main 'staple' ingredients, I am happy to say that even I can follow this books lifestyle eating without complaint.Most of the recipes don't take very long to make, and they have pancakes, cereal, soup, shakes, smoothies, energy bars, fuel bites, and LOTS more, and they all taste amazingly great.I even took a couple of cracker dip recipes to a party and everyone thought they were awesome.That sums this book up.AWESOME.thanks for reading ... Read more

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Sexuality and Sadness
"A Sport and a Pastime" (1968) is the third novel of the American writer James Salter (b. 1925). Before becoming a writer, Salter lived an energetic life as a West Point graduate and a fighter pilot. I read this book because I loved Salter's novel "Light Years", which was his next novel after this one. Salter remains unknown to many readers. The two books I have read show Salter as the master of a lyrical, precise, and highly distinctive writing style.Salter writes of eroticism and passion tinged with sadness and with the inevitability of loss.

The book is set in France in the late 1950s and features three primary characters, two American men and a young French woman. The story is told by a nameless narrator, an American man of 34, college-educated, who is visiting old companions from school in the United States. The narrator tells something of his own story combined with the story of a young man whom he befriends during his stay, Phillip Dean. Dean, age 24, is highly intelligent but footloose. He has been touring Spain and then visits France after twice dropping out, he claims due to boredom, from Yale. Dean is the son of a wealthy American family. His father and sister are also staying in Paris. While in a bistro in Autumn, France, Dean and the narrator meet an 18-year old French shopgirl, Anne-Marie.Dean and Anne-Marie quickly begin a highly-charged and erotic love affair.The description of the affair, through the eyes of the narrator, takes up most of the book.

The narrator admits his unreliability. At the simplest level, the erotic affair between Dean and Anne-Marie, while described in the most intimate detail, mostly takes place out of sight of the narrator. The accuracy of the account is questionable.More importantly, the narrator is unlike Dean in many ways. In early middle age, the narrator, although highly literate and perceptive, has difficulty approaching women sexually. In the initial scenes of the book, the narrator is attracted to at least two young women travelling with him on the train, makes eye contact, but will not approach them. As the book progresses, he becomes highly enamored with another young woman but does not approach her.She becomes engaged. The narrator has a life of sexual frustration.

The narrator sees his friend Dean as heroic, with a self-confident swagger. Dean is a man who knows what he wants and how to get it with women. Dean also leds a life of bravado, as he recklessly drives an expensive French sports car, borrowed from a friend, and spends money, which he increasingly cadges from family and friends, with little restraint.With its recklessness and improvidence, there are many intimations in the book that Phillip Dean's life will be short. The narrator's portrayal of his friend may in part be a projection of the narrator's own felt inadequacies and his own dreams. The matter is left ambiguous.My own feeling is that his story is mostly true. But whether it is a projection or a factual account is largely irrelevant. The book, in the story of Annie-Marie and Phillip Dean, captures the force of erotic love, of passion, and of heartbreak.

The novel's language and style are highly-charged. They show a writer with a sense of mastery of what he wants to do. The novel has an explicitness in its sexual content that was unusual in a work of literature of the time and that still retains its force. Salter contrasts the fire of his Dean and Anne-Marie, with the lives of frustration and boredom of the narrator and of the book's secondary characters. Salter has an extraordinary sense of France, especially of small towns, cafes, hotels, shops, and ordinary people outside the range of tourists. He is an almost painterly writer who is taken with the surfaces of things, with sex and with fast cars, that some might find superficial. Yet there is a sense of mystery in this book, of passion, and of loss.

Among other books, "A Sport and a Pastime" reminded me of Kerouac's "On the Road." Kerouac and Salter were in fact schoolmates for a short time. Salter's writing is far more elegant and disciplined than is Kerouac's. But Phillip Dean, with his rootlessness and recklessness, love of cars, and energetic sexuality shows parallells to Kerouac's Dean Moriarty/Neal Cassady in "On the Road". So to, the narrator in Salter's novel, with his ambivalences and almost hero-worship of Dean, resembles in many ways Sal Paradise/Kerouac, the narrator of Kerouac's famous novel. Kerouac's book has achieved greater public recognition, and I would not want to judge as between the two novels. But Salter's book is far more concentrated and has a much more mannered and elaborate literary style.

It is a great pleasure to discover a writer one has not known before. Salter's "A Sport and a Pastime" and "Light Years" have brought me poetry and thought. Readers willing to explore a unique American writer will enjoy these books.

Robin Friedman

Good, but not the best
This book is half voyeur, half first person, and can never make up its mind which it wants to be.The entire book evolves around sex and eating at restaurants and not much more.

That being said, Salter's distinctive writing is still great despite the subject matter.

Recommended
Dean is an American college dropout visiting France and who meets the narrator through a social dinner. The story focuses on Dean's relationship with a young French woman and on the narrator, who remains quite an outsider but totally in awe of Dean. This book is atmospheric and haunting. Salter beautifully describes the France of small towns through the eyes of a foreigner and the whole atmosphere just adds to the desperation and loneliness of the narrator.

Floating through words
I read this book a few years ago as a young, wide-eyed college student. Recently, with more experience (both literary and in life) I've come to it again and I'm still amazed by Salter's ability to put me into a trance. I can see a little bit of the Hemingway influence that people have pointed out (and I believe Salter himself has listed E.H. as an influence), but more than anything else, I see this novel as owing a debt to "The Great Gatsby," with it's unreliabilty and dazzling lights.

Salter's language is not perfect throughout, his style falters for brief moments, but for most of the novel it is nearly impeccable. The unnammed narrator is one of the greatest (and maybe the most) unreliable narrator of all time, starting in the second chapter with the words "None of this is true. I've said Autun, but it could easily have been Auxerre. I'm sure you'll come to realize that. I am only putting down details which entered me, fragments that were able to part my flesh. It's a story of things that never existed although even the faintest doubt of that, the smallest possibility, plunges everything into darkness. I only want whoever reads this to be as resigned as I am. There's enough passion in the world already. Everything trembles with it. Not that I believe it shouldn't exist, no, no, but this is only a thin, relfecting sliver which somehow keeps catching the light."

One of the most common criticisms of the book is its erotic, nearly pornographic, content. To some I would say that it's worth the possiblity of being offended (or merely shocked or even aroused) just to experience the pure beauty of Salter's prose. To others I would point out the historical context of the novel. After Grove Press won the right to import and sell D.H. Lawerence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" American novels across the spectrum were, and many still are, saturated with sexual content. Salter, more than any other writer I've read (and I've read a a lot) deals with sex in a manner that is almost too poetic to be real but too grounded to be surreal.

In the introduction to this particular edition (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006), Duke University Professor and acclaimed novelist Reynolds Price argues that this novel "is as nearly perfect a narrative as I've encountered in English-language letters, a more brilliant and heartbreaking portrayal of young sexual intoxication than I've found elsewhere, and an unbroken exercise of prose that leaves me proud of my native language and of a fearless man who labored to lay it out with such useful opulence." I can't help but agree.

Eloquent and erotic.
The writing is lovely.Salter strings together words in a refreshing and clean style.The story itself didn't grab me the way I had hoped it would after reading previous reviews.It's not so much a love story as it is a lust story and as such it never quite gets off the ground.Perhaps because it was written 40 years ago and nowadays we are so inundated with graphic sex scenes that those in the book failed to titillate as no doubt they were intended, although I still found them somewhat alluring.
The two lovers (Dean and Anne-Marie) characters are never fully realized so I didn't feel any emotional connection to them (and I'm unsure if they felt any emotional connection to each other).
I enjoyed the vagueness of the narrator.Everything is described by him, as though he were imagining what the young lovers were doing, so the line between reality and fantasy was so blurred that the reader is left unsure as to what actually transpired behind closed doors, which is perhaps the point.
Absolutely worth reading thanks to the languorous language. ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, William Mack, Gary Smith, and Frank Deford to A. J. Liebling, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, and includes such classics as "What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?" by Richard Ben Cramer, "Louis Knocks Out Schmeling" by Bob Considine, and "The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete" by W. C. Heinz. This outstanding collection captures not only the century's greatest moments in baseball, boxing, horseracing, golf, and tennis, but some of the finest writing of our time. Guest editor David Halberstam is the author of The Reckoning, The Summer of Forty-Nine, The Breaks of the Game, and, most recently, The Children. Series editor Glenn Stout has written biographies of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson.Amazon.com Review
Given the overall vigor and volume of sports writing inAmerica throughout the 20th century, the idea of compiling a singlecollection dubbed the "best" requires a daring balancing act ofboldness and delicacy. And that's just what it is. Sports fans--butwhy limit this sparkling, spirited, passionate prose to just sportsfans?--will revel in the equilibrium of David Halberstam's and GlennStout's wide range of selections. Their tribute to the knights of thekeyboards is Hall of Fame-level from cover to cover.

Halberstamand Stout don't waste any time. They lead off with one of the greattours de force of American nonfiction, Gay Talese's stunninglypoignant, 1966 profile of a moody Joe DiMaggio, "The Silent Season ofa Hero." Then, before you can finish digesting it, they loudly switchgears to Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero," a razzle-dazzle look atJunior Johnson and the world of stock-car racing. By the timeBest takes the checkered flag nearly 800 pages later, it hascovered a remarkably rich and varied course that runs through the pensof such remarkable talents as Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Frank Deford,W.C. Heinz, Jim Murray, Murray Kempton, Ring Lardner, John Lardner,Jimmy Breslin, Al Stump, John Updike, John McPhee, Hunter Thompson,Norman Mailer, Jon Krakauer, Tom Boswell, Roger Angell, and DavidRemnick. Whew!

Like the best sportswriting, of course, Bestis much more than fun and games, though there's plenty of that in itspages. Best is history captured on the fly through the games weplay and the memorable players--Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, MohammadAli, Secretariat, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Red Grange--who play them. Fromselection to selection, writes Halberstam in his introduction, "wewatch the country change." Certainly, sports--and sportswriting--haveprovided America a marvelous box seat for the contemplation of its ownmetamorphoses. --Jeff Silverman ... Read more

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100 years of Sport
Some amazing pieces on great athletes and sporting moments over the last 100 years.Some Enlightening (Ali, DiMaggio) Some Heartwarming (Secratariat) and even some Zany (Thompson on the Derby).Being a young man, I missed most of these great people/moments in history - but the tales live on and are captured through excellent writing.Highly recommend!

Not What It Could Have Been

If you enjoy reading about sports, there is little doubt you will enjoy many pieces in this book, especially if your interests lean toward boxing and baseball, which completely dominate this book.

I feel like readers would have better served if the editors had broken things down differently, perhaps by decade, or by sport, with 2 or 3 pieces from each. That would have given readers a much better feel for the breadth of sports in the 20th century.

But with this, the selections are clustered around mid to late century and as noted, are mostly about baseball and boxing. A very high percentage of the articles are about retired athletes bemoaning their lost "Glory Days."

Among the top selections are a long piece of Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, which stands out because it details an athlete who was active at the time the piece was written and is about football, which is barely mentioned in the book and Ring Lardner's "Eckie", which is the funniest and most irreverent piece in the book.

There is one article about hockey, a piece on the making of a goon and none about basketball. Track and field is not represented at all. The book is intended more for a New Yorker reader than a reader of the Sporting News; more for a fan of Roger Angell than Bill James.

Superb from cover to cover
I spent the better part of a month engrossed in this wonderful collection of sports writing, and I can't recommend this strongly enough for sportsfans and historians alike.The chronological organization of the writings herein also provided a fascinating look at the way America's sports passions have evolved over the past century.Boxing, horse racing, and baseball were prominent in the first half of the century, while the "x-games" of mountaineering and fishing came to light later.Five stars without any reservations.

Outstanding collection but a small part of what is out there
Years ago I read a piece included in this book, called 'Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu' by John Updike. I was reading a lot of Updike at that time, and found it strangely to be the most moving, the best thing he had written. I will venture to say it is one of the best things in this book.
Other sports - writing I loved a lot came not from the daily papers or columns or magazines but from longer often fictional works. For my money Zane Grey's 'The Shortstop' and Charles Einstein's 'The Only Game in Town' are two of the greatest pieces of sportswriting. I would also say that Hemingway in his writing about fishing and boxing and bullfighting- and Lardner ( who is included here but in a small selection) were at the highest level of the game. And Sherwood Anderson too for a story he has about horses and a young person's love of the track. Bernard Malamud in 'The Natural' also wrote about baseball and its dreams and disappointments in a way a real fan could take to heart.I would also add aselection Laura Hillebrand's great book on 'Seabiscuit'. And of course another masterpiece of writing Frederick Exley's 'A Fan's Notes'.
That said I believe this present collection a rich one.The opening piece on Joe D. by Guy Talese has about it something of the class and hidden mystery of the Yankee Clipper himself. The last selection of Norman Mailer on Muhammed Ali is as big as the egos of both of these two master- self- promoters. But there is also much here for those on the other side, the losers as in Murry Kempton's column on Sal Maglie who lost after pitching outstanding ball in the game Don Larsen was perfect in- in the 1956 World Series.
For some reason Baseball and Boxing are the sports most written about. Baseball is a world in itself, with its own special character. I would have liked to see a selection from Philip Roth in which he describes I believe it is in 'American Pastoral' the feeling of playing center- field. Boxing has the drama of the man- against- man combat. Perhaps a piece by Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson might have been included here.
When I was a child one of my heroes was Grantland Rice. And I am happy to see a selection from his columns here.
Again there is a great deal of wonderful stuff here but I am not sure it has most of the great sports- writing of the century in it. I think of some of the sports-biographies which have been written and are truly outstanding. Tom Meany's old books on Joe D. and the Babe are I believe even out- of-print but they told the story of their heroes in a way a young person could be inspired by and identify with.
What I am saying I guess is that this very good selection is still only a small part of what there is out there.
The game is long , and the life too short to read.

Great Read!
I purchased this book last year, and found it to be so enjoyable that I gave my copy to a friend, and then ordered two more copies for Christmas gifts.If you, or someone you know, likes to read short stories that cover all sports written by the best of our generation, buy this. You won't regret it... ... Read more

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Athletic Development offers a rare opportunity to learn and apply a career full of knowledge from the best. World-renowned strength and conditioning coach Vern Gambetta condenses the wisdom he's gained through more than 40 years of experience of working with athletes across sports, age groups, and levels of competition, including members of the Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, and U.S. men's 1998 World Cup soccer team.

The result is an information-packed, myth-busting explanation of the most effective methods and prescriptions in each facet of an athlete's physical preparation. Gambetta includes never-before-published and ready-to-use training approaches in

• sport-specific demands analysis,
• work capacity enhancements,
• movement skills development,
• long- and short-term training program progressions, and
• rest and regeneration techniques.

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Athletic development made easy
Vern's book is abosutely amazing.It provides a really conclusive overview of athletic development principles.The best part of the book is his perspective on the art and science of coaching.

A Different Approach to Coaching
Gambetta is a pioneer in the Athletic Development and in this book he showed us his creativity and the practical approach in coaching by assimilating the sciences into actual application. Many a time, coaches believe in the plain old-school methods while the sports scientists will tell them it's not scientific but here Gambetta will show how these two can "work together". Coaching is the art of applying the sciences into training and in this book you will find out how it is done. It is an interesting read and I have benefited a lot from it.

A Must Read!
This book is a must read for coaches or anyone seeking to develop the total athlete. Gambetta offers great insight into the science of functional training and lays it all out so clearly that even those who are just having their first taste of the physiology of exercise can understand. This book focuses mainly on the science of functional training methods but also details some great thoughts on coaching in general. I would highly recommend this book to anyone!

great read
this is one of the best books i have ever read.. it totally blew my mind

Great Read for Strength and Conditioning Coaches
This book has great insight in the formation and development of training regimens mostly for elite athletes.However it does glance by initial training steps for the novice.Not written for those without basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology.It should be an adjunct to other strength and conditioning books. ... Read more

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Loehr, author of the bestselling Mental Toughness Training for Sports, has trained more than 100 world-class athletes, from tennis ace Martina Navratilova to boxer Ray Mancini. This book--based on Loehr's toughening techniques--as well as the most scientific studies available--includes a whole new range of programs and goals for any athlete, professional or amateur. 20 photos. ... Read more

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Extremely applicable in working with athletes
I am a sports psychotherapist in private practice and integrate James Loehr's concepts when working with clients.I utilized his Competitive Adjective Assessment when working with a master level women's cycling team.It helped them gain insight into their strengths and weaknessess and then to set goals based upon the results.In addition, the assessment pointed out the discrepancy between how they see themselves vs others (ie coach, teammate). In addition, the author's stress/recovery model makes is an effective approach in building toughness in sport and life.

The New Toughness Training For Sports
This is an amazing book for athletes or non-athletes who want to have a winner's grit and tenaciousness.I recommend it highly.

Excellent book
Excellent book.Well written.Pertinent information for not only sports, but life as well.

Fantastic. Wish I would have read this years ago
I've now purchased 5 copies of this book to give as gifts. Fantastic material covering everything needed to reach what Loehr calls the IPS Ideal Performer State. I also like that Loehr includes a section on physical conditioning being key to being mentally tough. I have two friends who are professional MMA fighters and they've got a lot out of this book as well. Highly recommended.

The New Toughness Training For Sports
Very interesting points made in this book.It's a quick read and very well-written. ... Read more

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Audiences: Undergraduate and graduate students who need a comprehensive understanding of the principles and practices of sport marketing. Also practitioners who want a handy reference, particularly in the areas of sales, promotional planning, and market research.

Sport Marketing, Third Edition, the latest version of the leading sport marketing text, directs students to a better understanding of the theoretical backbone that makes sport marketing such a unique and vibrant subject to study. The text has been thoroughly updated with a comprehensive ancillary package, new examples and perspectives from the field, and the latest information about marketing in the burgeoning sport industry.

Using real-world examples and an engaging writing style, the distinguished authors provide valuable new material about key areas in sport marketing that prepares students for careers in the industry. The following are updates to the new edition:

• Foreword written by David J. Stern, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association
• A new chapter on branding and how to apply it in a sport context, including examples of successful efforts
• A greatly expanded chapter on research in sport marketing, recognizing recent and significant technological developments that allow sport marketers to reach consumers
• An updated final chapter containing opinions from industry insiders about what sport marketers can expect in the years ahead

The highly respected authors have long been recognized for their ability to define this exciting field, and they continue to engage readers by providing several updated references and real-life examples. These elements not only make the material more interesting for students to read but also allow them to easily translate concepts presented in the text into situations they will encounter in the working world.

The text incorporates all areas of marketing into an exciting and sport-specific context. Students will learn how to build a sport marketing plan, study the behaviors of sport consumers, and gain an understanding of market segmentation and pricing. The text also includes extensive information on promotion, sales, distribution, and public relations in sport. After reading this book, students will be able to apply the concepts of marketing to the distinct sport enterprise.

This new edition is complemented by a large and complete package of ancillary materials that will enhance the presentation of the material and provide a richer learning experience for students. A new instructor guide, test package, and PowerPoint presentation package are offered through a convenient product-specific Web site.

Even though this text is written primarily for students, the authors go beyond theory to stress real-world applications, providing a wonderful reference for professionals and a useful guide that allows practitioners to apply key concepts to the work they do every day.

This text will help students and others interested in marketing products in the expansive field of sport to understand the foundations of sport marketing and how to use marketing effectively. Most important, they'll learn how to incorporate these fundamentals into their own workplace.

Ancillaries
All ancillary materials are FREE to course adopters and available online.

Instructor Guide. Specifically developed for instructors of Sport Marketing, Third Edition, the instructor guide includes a sample student syllabus, student assignments, and a chapter-by-chapter course outline.

Test Package. Created with Respondus 2.0, the test package includes approximately 300 true-or-false, fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, and essay questions. With Respondus, instructors can create versions of their own tests by selecting from the question pool; select their own test forms and save them for later editing or printing; and export the tests into a word-processing program.

Presentation Package. The presentation package for Sport Marketing, Third Edition, includes over 300 PowerPoint text and illustration slides that instructors can use for class discussion and demonstration.

The slides in the presentation package can be used directly in PowerPoint or be printed to make transparencies or handouts for distribution to students. Instructors can easily add, modify, and rearrange the order of the slides as well as search for images based on key words. ... Read more

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The Bible of Sport Marketing
As undergraduate and graduate degree offerings in sports industry management have proliferated, so have the classroom tools.This book stands head and shoulders above all others addressing marketing/sales issues for its conceptual and practical content, its depth and ease of reading.The authors have the benefit of knowing first hand what it takes to succeed in the teaching setting and what it takes to succeed in the real sports world because they have experienced both over and over . . . and over again.

Sport Marketing sets the standard.
This book sets the standard for sport marketing literature.Sport Marketing provides a good overview of marketing concepts and how they are applied to the sport product.Dr. Sutton is THE guru of sports marketingand delivers a quality instructional and practical guide for the serioussport manager.

The ONLY book worth having as a sport marketer!
If your job is to sell sports, you MUST own this book. Otherwise, you're just a sports wannabe who is constantly guessing about what works and what doesn't. It is the only book that shows you guaranteed ways to buildsustainable attendance figures. It shows how factors such as your facility,your promotion efforts, location, pricing, and product relate with eachother to provide an overall experience for your customers.

Get this book,use it, and change your career for the better! ... Read more

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The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.

What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey—with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana—to discover the answer to this enduring question.

From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).

These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that is winning—even when the victory in question might strike some as pointless, like the ability to sit in an oven-hot sauna for the longest time. It's debatable whether these sports push the body or just human idiocy to the outermost limits, but one thing is for sure: Sports in Hell is laugh-out-loud hilarious and will deliver plenty of unabashed fun.Amazon.com Review
Dave Barry Reviews Sports from Hell

Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened. Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom Dave's World, in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave. Dave lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife, Michelle, a sportswriter. He has a son, Rob, and a daughter, Sophie, neither of whom thinks he's funny. His new book I'll Mature When I'm Dead will be published in May 2010. Read his review of Sports from Hell:

When you rank the greatest sportswriters in the world today, one name stands alone at the top of the list.

But this review is not about him. This review is about Rick Reilly, and his excellent new book: Sports from Hell (long subtitle alert): My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition. Not only is it hilarious, but it also raises some important questions, the main one being: Reilly got paid for this?

Yes, he did, and I applaud him for it, especially if he also claimed his expenses as tax deductions. And there were a lot of expenses, because to write this book Reilly roamed the globe in a two-year quest to find the world's most idiotic sports.

"Wait a minute," I hear you saying. "If he was looking for idiotic sports, why didn't he just stay in America and write about professional lawn-mower racing?"

Because in the pantheon of international sports stupidity, lawn mower-racing is nothing. Reilly found sports that make professional lawn-mower racing look like the Indianapolis 500. The World Sauna Championships, for example. This is a competition held in Heinola, Finland involving saunas set to 261 degrees, which is basically your daytime high temperature on Mercury. Reilly was able to sit in one of those saunas for four minutes before his fillings started to melt. The winner made it 13 minutes, emerging victoriously to raise the stumps of his hands in triumph while Finnish firemen extinguished him.

Among the other highly entertaining, if not uplifting, sports that Reilly participated in were: ferret-legging, in which contestants put a live ferret down their pants and see how long they can keep it there without qualifying for a completely new section of the choir, if you get my drift; women's professional football (I don’t want to ruin it for you, but their idea of "holding" is entirely different than ours); and Australian nude bicycle-racing, one of the few sports in which you run the risk of Death By Chafing. (Warning to Australian citizens: Reilly's bike was rented.)

My point is, if you enjoy--And who doesn't?--reading about other people’s pain, then you are going to love Sports from Hell. It's the wittiest sports book out there. And if you don't agree, you don't know wit from Heinola.

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Bull Poker: The inmates of Angola (La.) State Prison engage in a healthy use of taxpayer money with a game of Bull Poker. The last man to jump out of his chair and flee the scene as the bull smashes the table is not just the winner of the jackpot but also separated from his pancreas at no extra charge.	Chess Boxing Friends: In this deliciously dumb mishmash, Reilly observes that the best strategy is to play chess slow and box fast.	Rock, Paper, Scissors: Reilly faces a momentary setback in Round One of the intensely strategic Rock-Paper-Scissors championship held annually in Toronto. There were injuries.	Sauna: Reilly emerges--not victoriously but still alive--from a 261°F sauna after lasting 3 minutes and 10 seconds in the World Sauna Championships in Finland.

(Dave Barry photo © The Miami Herald, Sports photos © Cynthia "TLC" Reilly)

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makes a great gift!
This was a birthday gift for my grandson and he is very happy with it.

Hilarious. Or so I hear.
Bought this book for my husband, who's a fan of Reilly's regular columns. It's an easy read but entertaining, which is pretty much what you'd expect out of a book about weird sports from all over the world. At $9, it's a good one to read and pass on to a friend.

HILARIOUS!!
i've never thought that Reilly was an amazing writer as everyone says, so i reluctantly got this book (actually my wife got it for me) IT IS SOOO FUNNY!!! i finished it in 1 day and im not much of a reader as well. definently even for someone who is not for someone who is a sportsfan.

A hilarious collection
Recommended for any general sports collection is Rick Reilly's SPORTS FROM HELL: MY SEARCH FOR THE WORLD'S DUMBEST COMPETITION comes from an ESPN columnist seeking to cover something new. His criteria for something different was sports 'the dumber, the better'. His planet-wide search for such sports - which are actual sports, not stunts - results in a hilarious collection.

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The Tarascon Sports Medicine Pocketbook brings non-surgical primary care physicians, athletic trainers, and physical therapists the most up-to-date information on the topic of sports medicine so that they may provide the best medical treatment possible for the active individual. Sports medicine is more than just the management of muskuloskeletal injuries; it is primary care medicine for the active individual and not only includes the specialties of family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation and emergency medicine, but also cardiology, nutrition, psychology, pharmacology, neurology, and others. Topics include common muskuloskeletal injuries, infectious disease, overtraining, pain management, an athletics drug guide, and exercise physiology. ... Read more

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Great little book
Brief and to the point, this is a great, little book loaded with tuns of information. I love all the Tarascon Medicine Pocketbooks. I also strongly recommend the internal medicine and pharmocopia ones. All small, packed full of information and charts and can fit all in one coat pocket! ... Read more

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Reach a higher level of athleticism with Functional Training for Sports!

Functional training is a complete system of athletic development that focuses on training the body the way it will be used in competition, making it the most efficient and effective form of training today.

Author Mike Boyle, renowned strength and conditioning coach formerly with the Boston Bruins, addresses movement, body positions, and abilities that are essential for success in competition. Through Functional Training for Sports, you will improve your total athleticism, enhance your performance, and reduce injuries through exercise progressions that will spur your development potential for specific movement patterns you commonly use in your sport.

Providing tests for you to determine where to start, the progressions focus on training for the torso, the upper body, and the lower body. The book also provides detailed programs that incorporate the exercises and methods for these progressions. As you master each progression, you will be preparing yourself to perform in any situation with notable improvements in stability and balance, reaction time, core strength, and power.

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Excellent resource
I have been reading and working out with this book for a couple of weeks, and I am very pleased.It is clear and concise (for the most part, I had trouble deciphering a few of the exercise descriptions).I especially like how he organizes the exercises by body area and then by difficulty.This helps me design my workout, even as I progress in strength.

One warning, he uses a certain level of technical jargon.He occasionally uses terms such as flexion and extension (as in "flex the knees" or "extend the hips"), abduction, and some of the anatomical names of joints (as in "Scapulothoracic Joint," the joint between the shoulder blade and rib cage).If you don't know these words, you probably will still do ok with the book.However, the tone of the book is more geared towards an athletic trainer or a fairly curious individual who is training himself.

I am not a trainer, but I am in massage therapy school.I have more than the average knowledge and curiosity about body movement, so I especially like the explanation and theory he gives for this training approach.As some reviewers have pointed out, he doesn't present scientific research.He presents his own findings from his experience, and the experience of some his colleagues around the USA, with training athletes at many levels.

Personally, I have experimented with a variety of training approaches, and his findings resonate with what I have learned through my own experience.These exercises make sense to me, and I feel that they are working really well for me.That's enough for me, but I'm no elite athlete and I'm not training any elite athletes, either.If your career is on the line, or something like that, maybe you will want more air-tight evidence before you commit to this system.

must have for personal trainers
if you are a personal trainer or just someone looking for sport specific exercise, this is a must have for you collection. some of the theories on this book are now outdate but the exercises are terrific

functional training for sports
like the title says. I'm a veteran personal trainer and find this book to be one of the most useful in my library.Clear & concise, thoughtful. Indispensible.

Great Read
This book is excellent and worth the read. It shows how Mike Boyle trains his athletes and gives you different ideas/exercises on how to train athletes. The only problem I have, is that it is too text heavy without enough pictures to explain the text. Even with this being said, you can figure out how to do the majority of the exercises based on the text alone. If you want to learn how to train athletes properly, I would definitely get this book.

Functional training
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Athletes and coaches are continually seeking ways to maximize efforts in both training and performance. Advanced Sports Nutrition provides the best research- and results-based information and advice that athletes need to gain an edge physically.

Far beyond the typical food pyramid formula, this comprehensive guide presents cutting-edge nutritional concepts tailored for application by athletes in any sport. World-renowned sports nutritionist Dr. Dan Benardot breaks down the chemistry of improved performance into winning principles that ensure an athlete’s key energy systems are properly stocked at all times:

• Time your meals, snacks, fluids, training, and performances to maintain that crucial energy balance throughout each day.
• Digest optimal ratios and quantities of energy nutrients, vitamins, and minerals for any sport.
• Consume the right amount of fluid and electrolytes to avoid dehydration and hyperhydration.
• Identify and maintain a body composition capable of maximal power output with minimal excess weight for specific sports.
• Understand the effects of travel, high altitude, and age on nutritional needs and performance.

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Probably a very good book
I ordered this book based on an interview with the author that I heard on NPR.Overall it seemed like a very complete book, but it was far to technical and scientific for me to appreciate it.I gave it 3 stars not because it's not a good book - but it's too advanced for me to give it an accurate review.If you are looking for an easy non technical nutrition book - this isn't it.If you are looking for something a bit meatier, with plenty of scientific technical information - it may be the one you want.

Fantastic Purchase
I have read other sports nutrition books, but this book is by far the best. The writing style is simple, and the research comprehensive. The books touches on all aspects of nutrition and how it affects performance. I recommend it for any serious athlete.

Very scientific
Too scientific for me. This book may be a good reference if you're a sports dietitian.

A worthwhile reference
First and foremost, this exceptional book is not a "one stop reference"; thats an idea that people often look for in a book, that probably doesn't really exist. Quality books should be added to your library, taken for what they are and what they offer, and compared to other similar books to create a bigger picture or understanding as it applies to you...there is no single perfect "way" when it comes to nutrition, much like training for your chosen sport. This book is no exception, it is well researched and exceptionally useful, written by an author that applies what he knows to Olympic athletes. As a strength athlete most interested in powerlifting and strongman types of lifting and competition, the chapters referring to this type of training directly are limited and mostly bunched up with wrestlers, etc. under "power athletes", so it isn'texactly what I was looking for, but it still fits the bill in alot of ways as the info is there just not set out by itself under that title. Advanced Sports Nutrition covers a broad range of sports and has tons of useful information on everything nutrition that can be useful to just about anyone. It covers alot of unique as well as general topics. Join it up with a few more books like Nutrition Almanac and you'll be on your way to having whatever you need at your fingertips. This book is worth your time and money, although like myself, you might not realize the extent if its usefulness until you open it up and start putting things together.

Organization and topics:

Part INutritional Sources for Athletes
-energy nutrients, vitamins/minerals, fluids/electrolytes, and ergogenic aids

Part IINutritional Aspects of Optimal Performance
-timing, absorption, oxygen, and inhibitors

Part IIIFactors Affecting Nutritional Needs
-travel, altitude, gender/age, and body comp/weight

Part IVNutritional Strategies for Specific Energy Systems
-Metabolism for endurance/power (anaerobic/aerobic), and needs for both

Part VNutritional Plans for Specific Sports
-Power/speed sports, endurance sports, and combined power/endurance sports.

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As a nutritinal consultant who needed to learn more about sports nutrition, this book really did the job. ... Read more

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This new revised third edition contains 80 illustrations now in full colour!

Clinical Sports Medicine is a complete practical guide book to musculoskeletal medicine and physical therapy, covering all aspects of diagnosis and management of sports-related injuries and physical activity.

With over 1000 full color pages and a free patient information CD, Clinical Sports Medicine adopts an easy-to-use, symptom-oriented approach and describes multidisciplinary methods of treatment

It is a vital reference for all clinicians in musculoskeletal health including physiotherapists, masseurs, general practitioners, personal trainers, athletic trainers, and orthopedic surgeons. It is also important reading for advanced coaches, insightful athletes and students of sports-related subjects such as kinesiology, human movement studies and human kinetics.

In the fully-updated, full-colour, expanded Third Edition (DVD also available) Clinical Sports Medicine is established as a leading text on sports medicine; the 2nd edition received a ‘Book of the Year’ award. This 3rd edition is a major upgrade for content, visual appeal, and readability. Every chapter has been updated for this landmark 3rd edition and there are six entirely new chapters. More than 1000 full color photos and purpose-drawn artwork show presentations and demonstrate treatment techniques.

Clinical Sports Medicine explores many important aspects of sports medicine:

- fundamental principles of sports medicine - diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries - enhancement of sports performance - dealing with special groups of participants, including disabled and older athletes - management of medical problems - practical aspects of sports medicine

Clinical Sports Medicine has been fully updated from the popular 2nd edition (2000). It is even more practical, now superbly illustrated, easy-to-read and packed with substantially updated and new material. There are samples of several chapters online including the whole "Pain in the Achilles region" chapter. This book describes a completely symptom-oriented approach to treating clinical problems.

The practitioner can flick to the chapter that describes the patient presentation (e.g., longstanding groin pain, acute ankle injuries) and review the likely differential diagnoses, the clinical approach and the full colour pictures of the physical examination (physical examination for several major systems are also available as a separate DVD - 0074716972).

The reader of this third edition of Clinical Sports Medicine benefits from the wisdom of over 50 clinicians with world-wide recognition including Jenny McConnell, Jill Cook, Roald Bahr, Liza Arendt, Per Holmich, Ben Kibler, Timothy Noakes, Pekka Kannus, Kim Bennell, Paul McCrory, George Murrell, Kevin Singer and Meena Sran and Jon Karlsson.

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Coach
This is the best book you can but about sport medicine. I am a coach for national team of poland and I know what I am saying. It is fully professional but written with language everyone can understand. It is also very up to date with latest researches and easy to find what you are looking for.

Comprehensive and informative
Great text for practitioners interested in sports medicine.

Very comprehensive and information.

clinical sports medicine
this book is very good, for anyone doing musculoskeletal health, or related. covers everythin under the sun, well recommended

A Useful Aid in Evaluating Injuries
Anyone working in sports medicine should have this reference guide in their library.It's an outstanding resource that will help in diagnosing an injury.

A great reference for any medical professional
Awesome book !!!I'm a P.T. and Athletic Trainer getting
back into sports medicine and this book is a "must" for
your library. It's well organized and covers such a variety
of subject matter regarding injuries,rehabilitation, specific
medical injuries, and even aspects on the use of supplements
by athletes.It also contains functional anatomical references
that aid in the evaluation and differential diagnosis of
the injury. Great Book !!!
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Continuing its series of spectacular coffee-table books for the holiday season, Sports Illustrated presents The College Football Book, the ultimate gift for America's most passionate fans.

SI launched this series in 2005 with The Football Book, devoted to the professional game. A New York Times best-seller that year, the book has taken root as a perennial, selling more than 200,000 copies to date. Now the editors of Sports Illustrated return to the gridiron, this time to serve the most avid football fans of all.

With the best words and pictures SI has to offer, The College Football Book, brings to life the game's unparalleled excitement and pageantry, its legendary players, historic teams and epic rivalries.

In 288 pages of the greatest photography and writing available anywhere, The College Football Book spans the sport's history, from its infancy in the 1800s right up to the postseason showdowns of 2008. The book is packed with stunning pictures, award-winning stories, original stats, decade-by-decade all-star teams and iconic artifacts photographed exclusively for this book at the College Football Hall of Fame--the same exciting mix of elements that makes each book in the SI series a must-have for sports fan. ... Read more

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Great book for all College Football Fans
This book is so amazing!My wife and I are huge college football fans and I was excited when I first heard about this book because of our love for college football.We knew it would be a great addition to our coffee table books and it is a great book to have on the table during the fall because of all the rich history of college football that is in the book.I would highly recommend buying this book if you are a huge college football fan and enjoy learning about the early years of college football and how it has transformed into the sport it is today.

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Purchased as gift for grandson.

Sports Illustrated publications are a wonderful way to motivate both children and adults.

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College football fans should love it
This coffee-table book is a more-or-less pictorial history of college football, and contains many great full-color pics along with info and stories, and should make a great gift for a college football fan! While not the comprehensive history of college football such as say Ken Burn's is for baseball it contains many great full-page pictures from the last 100 years.In addition it includes summaries by decade of the great college football teams, epic games, "all-decade team,"Heisman winners, and innovative figures of the decade (although I'd personally say listing the conference Commissioner who created the "BCS" is a suspect honor...).

Also listed are fun "Campus Culture" tidbits by decade including major books, movies, news stories of the day, and other - everything from "the foxtrot" and Thomas Edison in the early part of the century to "facebook" and the O.J. verdict in the latter part.But the book is mainly devoted to college football - throughout the book are also featured great pieces on such legendary figures as Bear Bryant, Ernie "The Express" Davis, Dick Butkus, Knute Rocke, and stories such as the "U," the Flutie-comeback game, and more. In addition to pictures also featured are many classic game-program covers; one other creative feature is a large illustrated foldout of the "all-century" team - greatest players/coaches.

Overall, a very enjoyable collection of pics and information. One thing I found quirky - the book lists the national champs from each decade up to 30's, when they then are replaced by the Heisman award trophy winners. I suppose SI couldn't fit both on one page so just they stopped listing the national champs - but it seems strange they consider the individual award more important than team championships (in any event a listing of national champs can easily be found on-line, if one cares to, in tandem with reading this book). Overall, this book will provide college football or American sports fan plenty of enjoyment, and lives up to its title of "THE College Football Book!"

Great Product
My son loved the book, but for the same price I found it in BJs and could have saved on the shipping. ... Read more

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The gods grew tired of their cruel sport..
I need to say that I read the latter portion of this book from the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Reader. I really enjoyed this story even though it was quite melancholy. The story of a falsely accused butler, Berry Hamilton, stealing money from his Southern employer, Maurice Oakley. Of course Hamilton was sent to jail without much of a thought and his family had to leave town.

The family which consisted of Fannie(wife), Kit(daughter), and Joe(son) all made their way north to New York. When they arrived they were immediately confronted with the smooth talkers and wonders of the city. Fannie tried to keep somewhat of a grip on her children but it soon wilted. The "city" had much more appeal than Fannie's moral cautions. Fannie lost her grip on Joe first. The Banner Club and it's patrons feed his strong desire to fit in with the City. Kit's appetite for the stage blinded her relationship with her mother. They all soon forgot about Berry being in prison. Skagg's a Banner patron that had befriended Joe sought out to find a story and found the truth.

The story is about how unfortunate circumstances and how the refuge of a new city ate away at a family like a parasite. The book ended in tragedy and redemption. Dunbar is so gentle with his characters. His gentleness makes the tragedy go down a little easier.

Overlooked, must-read classic
This novel is wonderfully written and profound in its message. Dunbar's prose is as excellent as his poetry. A must-read classic for high schoolers and undergraduates. Would make a wonderful juxtaposition alongside today's street lit.

A Pioneering Novel by a Great African American Poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 -- 1906)is best remembered as a poet. He wrote in both dialect and formal English.His famous poems include "We wear the mask", "Sympathy", which includes the line "I know why the caged bird sings", and "Frederick Douglass". Dunbar wrote prolifically during his short life, with an output that included essays, journalism, plays, short stories as well as poetry.Dunbar was also a novelist.His final effort in this form "The Sport of the Gods" (1902) remains an impressive work, a minor classic of American literature.

Dunbar's novel describes the fate of an African American family, the Hamiltons, which is forced to move from its home in the deep South (the particular State is not named) to New York City. The Hamiltons had seemingly achieved a degree of success and stability in the post-Civil War South. The father, Berry, had worked as a butler for a prosperous plantation owner, Oakley, for many years. Berry had lived frugally, and managed to save money. His wife, Fannie, also had a good job working as a housekeeper for the Oakleys. The couple had two children, Joe, 18, a barber to white people who had become a dandy, and Kitty, 16, her mother's darling. The peaceful life of the family comes to a startling end when Oakley falsely accuses Berry Hamilton of stealing. Berry is sentenced to ten years in prison. His family is ostracized by whites and blacks alike. Fannie, Joe, and Kitty move to New York City to find a new life for themselves.

The heart of this novel lies in Dunbar's descriptions of the underside of New York City life -- the hustlers, bars, tawdry shows, raw music, and loose women -- that spell doom to the newcomers from the South. Much of the action takes place in a nightclub called "The Banner", frequented by African Americans and by a class of whites who, then as in later times, practiced what is now termed "slumming". Dunbar has no affection or sentimenality for "The Banner" or its ilk.He writes: "[O]f course, the place was a social cesspool, generating a poisonous miasma and reeking with the stench of decayed and rotten moralities. There is no defense to be made for it. But what do you expect when false idealism and fevered ambition come face to face with catering cupidity?"Some of the frequenters of the banner include a con-man and raconteur named Sadness, the best-drawn character in Dunbar's book, a chorus girl named Hattie, and William Thomas, a railway worker with designs on young Kitty.

The destruction of the Hamilton family proceeds naturally and inexorably in this environment and becomes "The Sport of the Gods". Joe quickly takes to drink and becomes involved with Hattie. When she puts him out, Joe kills her and is sentenced to prison. Kitty succumbs to Thomas's advances and ultimately finds herself working in a vulgar chorus line. Fannie is persuaded by a gambler and criminal that her husband's long imprisonment is equivalent to a divorce. She marries him and endures and abusive relationship.

For all his negativity towards it, Dunbar offers an effective portrayal of early African American life in New York City, particularly its music. For the most part, the book is written in a bleak, naturalistic tone which reminded me of Stephen Crane's "Maggie", a somewhat earlier work about the effect of a slum environment in the destruction of lives. After Joe's imprisonment, the patrons of "The Banner", including Sadness, reflect upon his fate and upon the fate of young Southern blacks moving to New York:

"This was but for an hour, for even while they exclaimed they knew that there was no way, and that the stream of young negro life would continue to flow up from the South, dashing itself against the hard necessities of the city and breaking like waves against a rock, -- that until the gods grew tired of their cruel sport, there must still be sacrifices to false ideals and unreal ambitions."

Readers looking for high-quality writing that remains somewhat off-the- beaten path should explore Dunbar and this novel. He remains an author worth remembering and reading. "The Sport of the Gods" raises themes that would be developed in American literature throughout the 20th Century, especially in works written by African Americans.It is a short, bleak and effective novel by an American poet.

Robin Friedman

From the South to the urban North
Paul Laurence Dunbar's novel "The Sport of the Gods" describes the experiences of an African-American family in the years following the abolition of slavery. According to the introduction by William L. Andrews in the Signet Classic edition of the novel, "Sport" first appeared in "Lippincott's" magazine in 1901 and was published in book form a year later.

After a disturbing turn of events, the Hamilton family leaves their home in the southern U.S. and makes their way to New York City, where they try to start a new life. But the pressures of urban life have serious consequences for each member of the family.

"Sport" is a story about injustice, innocence, and temptation. As he follows this family's story, Dunbar looks at many different relationships: parent/child, husband/wife, black/white, etc. Particularly interesting is his look at the relationship between the media reporter and those who are the object of media reports. The book also presents an ironic view of artists and their connection to larger society.

"Sport" is a dark, moralistic tale. Although the characterizations are fairly shallow, Dunbar's narrative moves along effectively. I actually found the most intriguing character to be Skaggs, a white reporter for a "yellow" newspaper. This novel serves as an ironic complement to those slave autobiographies (such as the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass") which depict a flight to the north as a liberating experience; the north in "Sport" is a cold, amoral place full of dangers for black people. Overall, this is a compelling book that I regard as a significant milestone in African-American literature.

Bleak, but powerful
Have you ever wanted to yell out to the heroes of your favorite movie "DON'T DO THAT YOU IDIOT!!"?This book is sometimes frustrating because you, the reader, can see where the plot is going and want so badly to help the story's characters avoid what seems to be the inevitable.A naturalistic picture of life, and an often-missed text which deserves more attention.It doesn't make you feel good-- but it does make you want to be sure that people have choices, that this sort of thing isn't allowed to happen, that life isn't a series of "sport" that the gods (a vindictive type of gods) play with us.Powerful, powerful writing, vivid details and characters you just want to smack.Read it! ... Read more

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sports lover
Great gift for pre-teen/teenage boy who is a sports lover.This turned out to be an easy way to get him to read.He found the stories entertaining, amazing and even shared them with the family.This was a great find.

Amazing But True Sports Stories
Popular with both boys & girls.Students can identify with the stories. ... Read more

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Acquiring the winning edge in sports-the mental edge

Mental conditioning is now seen by many to be as critical to sports success as physical conditioning. And for parents eager to ensure their children have a winning edge-as well as a future college scholarship-nothing could be more critical to success. This book offers readers a comprehensive program to gain that winning edge, providing training tips and techniques along with helpful advice to keep in mind while competing. With practical advice on how to strengthen concentration (and when you shouldn't concentrate), talk yourself into winning, and develop routines that will lead to consistent improvement, the book's full personalized program will help any athlete gain over time the winning edge in any sport

• With tips on how to regulate your energy to avoid exhaustion; and how to enhance your team's chemistry through sports psychology
• Loaded with real-world examples from amateur and professional sports of all kinds

Applicable to not only sports-but business as well-Sports Psychology For Dummies will enhance any competitor's motivation, focus, and will to win, when facing life's toughest challenges. ... Read more

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Includes some useful information
NOTE:I received a free review copy of this book directly from one of the authors.

I was a little hesitant to read this book, as I am not a big fan of the "For Dummies" line; although I think that these books often do contain useful information, I find the way the books are organized to be distracting and somewhat juvenile.Still, since I am a psychologist who works with college students, I thought that SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY FOR DUMMIES might be a useful addition to our self-help lending library, particularly for our student athletes.

Overall, I DID find this book to contain some helpful information.I thought that Part I, which covered Sports Psychology Fundamentals, was especially beneficial, as it did a nice job of addressing issues such as confidence, motivation, and goal-setting.In Part II, the authors begin to focus more on specific tools for success ("Your Mental Toolkit"), and here I particularly liked their review of self-talk.Unfortunately, this second section seemed relatively short compared to the following one, "Staying Competitive: Sports Psychology in Action," which I found to be rather repetitive.

For the last three sections of the book, it seemed that the authors were too broad in what they were trying to accomplish.First, they expand the Sports Psychology concepts to team building; there is some good information here, but I am not sure that it would be relevant to an individual reading the book for self-help.Part V is entitled "Sports Psychology for Coaches and Parents."Again, the actual content provided here is quite good, but it feels like it belongs it its own separate book.In the the final segment, "The Part of Tens," the authors offer various suggestions on the topics "Ten Ways You Can Use Sports Psychology at the Office," "Ten Ways to Be a Better Competitor," "Ten Ways to Manage Stress Better," and "Ten Ways to Parent an Athlete."To me, this section would have made more sense if it were narrower in scope (i.e., removing the office chapter), and perhaps if it included the remaining information more briefly in an Appendix.

In conclusion, this book is likely to provide athletes with some useful information on topics relevant to their sports participation, and they may learn some beneficial new coping techniques which will assist in enhancing their performance.However, I would rate this book as only average, and I would recommend it with the caution that some portions might not be relevant to all readers.[Furthermore, as one other reviewer mentioned, I would note that this field, as officially designated by the American Psychological Association, is "Sport" Psychology--not "Sports" Psychology; this is a rather odd and somewhat disconcerting error for the authors to have made.]

Definitely not for dummies
I received this book as a review copy. I was delighted because I am fascinated by athletes and their motivation. How do the pros look so calm before a game? Why do some basketball players get so emotional that they actually hurt their team by getting technical fouls called against them? What makes a football player go out there and get hit - and enjoy the experience?

This book held some of the answers. However, the title really ought to be "How to Stay Motivated As An Athlete." Much of the content seems directed to younger players, which makes sense: a college or pro athlete will have mastered the techniques and/or have access to a trained psychologist who focuses on his or her unique challenges.

I'd recommend this book to adults who are not athletes but who work for themselves or for corporations. The tips on imagery, getting out of a slump and developing "winning" habits are surprisingly useful outside the context of sports. The section on self-talk is not especially new but presents valuable information unusually well.

I'm not sure who would benefit from the sections on coaching; I would hope that any coach would have some training before accepting the job. The section on parenting may be helpful but I wonder if a parent would actually pick up this book.

The book's title suggests that the book would give some hint of the theories of sport psychology and/or psychological theories that form the foundation of sports psychology. I also would have liked to see more examples from real sports figures. Of course much of that info is confidential, but many stories are reported in the press. Some comments like, "I suspect X's coach would..."As it happens, the NY Times for October 10, 2010, included a sports section story about a football punter who had been advised to work with a psychologist, and there was a brief mention of what the psychologist did. Pat Summitt also talks about team psychologists in her books about coaching the Lady Vols.

Last but not least, I liked the discussion of becoming a sports psychologist. This section could have been expanded with examples of the many things a sports psychologist can do, ranging from working with athletes on personal problems to traveling with a team to helping a coach resolve team conflicts. Alas, the authors warn us, it's not a glamor job. You have to stay on the sidelines. That's probably true but I bet it's also a lot of fun.

Great applications in business/career settings!
Thank you, Drs Smith and Kays, for an extremely helpful, succinct, and accessible tool for the workplace. As a manager in a fast paced, exacting, and stressful environment, chapter 19 (Ten Ways You Can Use Sports Psychology at the Office) was very useful to me. Performing under pressure, coping with conflict, and enlisting a support team are daily challenges. Thank you for being honest about what it is really like in the corporate world and giving those of us who struggle to make it all happen some tools to succeed and take care of ourselves in the process. Also, my boss was a football player and sports fanatic, and reading this book helped me understand him better and make more sense of the "sports worldview" he applies to every situation. Thanks again, guys, and keep up the good work! I look forward to reading more of your books in the future.

A Invaluable Resource for Anyone!
Not being a collegiate or professional athlete, I was a little skeptical about purchasing this book. It was after a recent conversation with a friend about my current struggles with my weight loss, that this book was highly recommended to me. "Sports Psychology for Dummies" taught me a lot about goal setting, motivation and even how to handle, what would have been before, devastating set backs. All while keeping my perspective on my overall goal. I have been implementing the techniques that Dr. Smith and Dr. Kays have suggested in the book for over three weeks now and not only have I already seen a difference in my body, but also in my overall mental attitude! "Sport Psychology for Dummies" is not just a GREAT resource for athletes, parents of athletes or coaches, but also a valuable tool for people like me: The everyday person who is looking to improve themselves both physically and mentally. Thank you Dr. Smith and Dr. Kays!

Great resource for any performer.
This book is a great resource for athletes, coaches, and parents of athletes, but the information is also useful to performers from any discipline. The techniques presented are focused on optimizing the mental skills and mindset needed for consistent high-level performance, useful to those in the performing arts, music, etc. Anyone desiring to increase confidence and consistently perform at peak levels will find this book invaluable. ... Read more

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It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? Have we all just been fiddling for 40 years as the world burns around us?

Schneider, part of the Nobel Prize–winning team that shared the accolade with Al Gore in 2007, had a front-row seat at this unfolding environmental meltdown. Piecing together events like a detective story, Schneider reveals that as expert consensus grew, well-informed activists warned of dangerous changes no one knew how to predict precisely—and special interests seized on that very uncertainty to block any effective response. He persuasively outlines a plan to avert the building threat and develop a positive, practical policy that will bring climate change back under our control, help the economy with a new generation of green energy jobs and productivity, and reduce the dependence on unreliable exporters of oil—and thus ensure a future for ourselves and our planet that’s as rich with promise as our past. ... Read more

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Mediocre
As climate books go,this was nothing special. There are many better books out there. I don't trust Schneider's objectivity. I thought he was being unfair and unscentific when he blames the European heat waves and Katrina on global warming, while saying the 10 year cooling period of 1998-2008 was too short-term to be significant. That's trying to have it both ways. A three-star book, nothing more.

This book rubbed me the wrong way
If a strong sense of your own rightness makes you a good scientist, then Stephen Schneider must be a great one. I've never read a book that was quite so self-righteous. Schneider sees himself as a hero fighting against evildoers -- who are anyone who does not agree with him. As the subtitle says, Schneider thinks he is fighting a "battle to save the Earth's climate."

But who or what is Schneider fighting? That's not clear. Some of the suspects appear to be scientists, politicians, and other people who do not see things his way. Not by convincing them, but by ridiculing them. That's why this book rubbed me the wrong way.

Sport with the Earth as football
Schneider's specialty is climate modelling and he has long been a favourite target of climate change denialists but his first battles were with the scientific empiricists who were dismissive of computer modelling because it went beyond observation and measurement into the uncertainties of predictive statistical methodologies.Schneider's reply is that modelling is necessary to be able to forecast impacts of changing variables such as atmospheric concentrations of CO2.You can't measure the future - until it becomes the present and then it could be too late.

Schneider's second battle front has been opened by an altogether less scrupulous opponent - "corporate interests".The fossil fuel industry set in train a global warming denialist apparatus seeking to spread doubt about global warming and discredit a science they didn't like.Leaked documents showed their deliberately deceptive strategy was to `reposition the debate' as `theory, not fact', creating public uncertainty by pushing the minority views of contrarians.

The denialists rely on a complicit and facile media to strike a `balance' by giving equal access to both the proponents of global warming and the denialists.To the uninformed in a complex scientific discipline, the pro and con position, if treated as equals and confined to a superficial ten-second sound-bite, can be made to seem equally credible.Unlike legitimate sceptics, the denialists simply ignore the "preponderance of evidence" established by rigorous and extensive peer review, says Schneider.

The denialist aim, says Schneider, is to shift the focus from debate over what to do about global warming to whether there is a problem in the first place thus delaying any policy which might harm the "special interests vested in the status quo" (Schneider's term for fossil fuel industry profits).

Schneider's rebuttal of the contrarians is the highlight of his book, which, in other respects is not up to his usual standards as a populariser of global warming science.Despite his experience of cantankerous debates over wording into the wee small hours at various UN-sponsored forums on climate change, for example, Schneider remains hooked on their adrenalin rush and retails all their machinations at length.

Schneider's remaining set of battles are, disappointingly, with environmentalists.As an advocate of market `solutions' such as emissions trading schemes, as well as `clean coal' and "well-designed nuclear expansion", he dismisses more radical greenhouse reduction targets, timeframes and strategies.

Schneider talks the language of business and is often invited into their tent but even his `realistic' brand of politics is too extreme for the fossil fuel `special interests' who have governments is their well-funded grip.

Climate Change is Here and Now
Stephen Schneider is one of the worlds leading experts on climate change.He is the person that science reporters go to for interviews.

The first half or so of this work is biographical.It describes Schneider's career.This may not be particularly compelling for the average reader.Because of resource limitations, in terms of both people and money, scientists spend a lot of time discussing with their colleagues about what they are going to do before they do it.They then seek funding.If they are lucky enough to get support, then they do the research and present it at a conference.This is followed by more discussion with colleagues about what they are going to do next.The process repeats itself.

In the biographical part of the book, we do learn some interesting things.For instance, Schneider's early research institute was located in New York City above Tom's Restaurant, which is featured on Seinfeld.

The second half of the book is more compelling.We learn about climate change and the people who would have us believe that it is not really happening.Schneider terms George Will a distortionist for misusing information taken out of context to present a case againstthe reality of climate change.If Schneider lets us down, it is in not spending more time explaining the motivations behind people like Will.Are they acting on ideology, in the pay of the fossil fuel industry, ignorant, or perhaps all of the above?

Over the past decade, the effects of climate change have become quite apparent to me.Here in the Hudson Valley, we set more new high temperatures than low temperatures.Our local reservoir, instead of being frozen all winter, barely has ice for a few days.We are experiencing tropical diseases like the West Nile Virus.It is not just our grandchildren who will suffer the effects of climate change.It is happening here and now to all of us.

One thing that we can do as individuals is to inform ourselves.I have read several books on climate change that I can recommend.Among them are: "Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet", "An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming", "Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change", and "With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change."All of these were written for non-technical readers.

We need 1/2 stars as book is 3 1/2 stars but it deserved more of a mark-up than a mark-down!!
In his book, "Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate", Stephen Schneider provides his perspective on the climate change argument over the past 30 years or so.While Mr. Schneider is a much respected scientist, I wish he would have chosen another format for the book.This book provides his recall about what has happened on the scientific front regarding global warming.He includes conversations he had with others and this is what bogs me down about the book.Think about it:it's really difficult to recall a conversation one had last week, much less conversations going back 30 years.He does state that he sought out those whom he quoted and at times they did differ with his recollections.

In spite of this quibble, it was certainly interesting to see how the theories have changed over time regarding global warming.And it is encouraging to note that more and more scientists are convinced that we are facing a real problem before we find irrefutable proof by which time it could be too late to act anyway.Also, I take issue with Mr. Schneider because he doesn't think we can/will go extinct due to excessive warming.Now, I'm well aware that he is the scientist BUT how about a little COMMON SENSE here.Can the earth really withstand continued warming?Won't it affect all living things including crops?And how about the chain of life -- which extinct animal will cause the break-down?(Let me point out here that there is a real difference between natural extinctions and those caused by the activities of man.)Where will the water go from the melting polar ice caps?

I agree with other "lay people" that continuing to reassure us that we'll survive regardless, is to diminish the warming argument.It certainly provides deniers with plenty of ammunition with which to stop any changes.After all, if we will survive anyway, why do anything that may stop all that green stuff from flowing to our corporations, politicians and their ilk?Let's just disregard the fact that change can be good and that more money can be made being more environmental conscious.

As far as my personal perspective goes, there are serious issues (such as global warming) whereby proof is elusive and undoubtedly will remain so until it is, well, too late!!So then for an issue as life threatening to all living things on earth as global warming, again, let me offer up this:why can't we just add a little of that formerly alluded to COMMON SENSE into the mix???(By the way, chemical proliferation is another such issue.)This book will appeal to the already converted and give the deniers something to talk about.I just would have preferred a more standardized version of the battle.Less talk and more real history so to speak.I enjoyed the book nevertheless.
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And Nobody Got Hurt!
I have not received this book yet!!!!!I tried to tracked the book using the tracking number, but all it said was that the book was delivered.The United States Post Office says that they received a notice from Amazon that an item will be delivered, but that the item has not arrived yet.I lookedall over the Amazon website to help find my book, but could not find ant help.

Not his best efforts...
I was not a fan of this one enough to give it more than a two star review and a sentence for a critic.I'd like a refund.Instead - I sold it on eBay for half my money back.I accidentally gave th9is one 5 stars.

Great boys sports nut book
I gave this book as a gift and the 3rd. grader said he realy liked it.He is a sports nut and likes to play many sports.I wanted to encourage him to read over the Christmas school break and it worked.

Great book for my nephews!
I gave And Nobody Got Hurt! Books 1 and 2 sets for Christmas for each of my nephews, both 10 years old. One started reading as soon as he opened his gift and was finished with one book by the next day. The other newphew isn't much into reading, yet he also started to read. Needless to say, this nephew's parents were delighted.

RIPPED OFF
I purchased three of these to give to my grandsons and we were not happy with them. We love Len Berman's spots on TV so we thought the books would be entertaining gifts. They are dull and printed on inexpensive newsprint type paper with no coloful illustrations. The stories are tedious and a few drawings in vivid colors might have perked them up. I would not recommend this book. Sorry Len and say hello to Shelly. ... Read more

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Continuing in the tradition of Sports Illustrated’s 50th Anniversary Book and The Football Book comes a spectacular celebration of baseball that will be treasured by fans of the National Pastime.With the same kind of unforgettable photographs and award-winning writing that propelled The Football Book to surpass the sales of The Anniversary Book, a New York Times best-seller, this lavish coffee-table volume brings to life the legendary players, the classic action and the great traditions of the Summer Game. In 294 oversized pages, The Baseball Book commemorates the epic teams and characters, the crucial plays and classic games, the personalities and performances and artifacts that have kept baseball at the heart of American sports for more than a century. ... Read more

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Great book!
Love this book! Makes a great coffeetable book and can be a great coversation starter!

Baseball illustrated
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Baseball History
A great book about Baseball. Lots of Info and Awesome pictures. I highly recommend this book!

Baseball Addicts Dream Book
I bought this book for my 12 year old nephew. He said his dad has a copy but won't let him look at it. He was so happy to get his own copy. He was showing it to everybody. And..the best part is, Auntie got a big hug from him.

Great for baseball fans
Book that is great for baseball fans.Photos and facts that are good fun for an old man to sit down with. ... Read more

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Sports Medicine Essentials: Core Concepts in Athletic Training, Second Edition introduces students to potential careers in the Sports Medicine field, from Fitness Instructor to Athletic Trainer.This comprehensive text surveys a broad scope of knowledge related to the Sports Medicine field, encompassing fitness assessment, conditioning, emergency preparedness, injury management, therapeutic modalities, nutrition, ethical and legal considerations and much more. To help introduce students to an array of exciting careers, it features enrichment activities that include researching the cost of sports medicine supplies, demonstrate taping techniques, and the forming of a safety committee to devise a plan to minimize risk to a team, athletes or clients.This complete resource is a fantastic introduction for any program. ... Read more

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Turbocharge your sports performance with EFT! The founder of EFT, Stanford-trained engineer and former star football player Gary Craig, shows you how. EFT has been used by thousands of athletes to improve their performance, from Olympic stars to Little League baseball players. Scientific studies have demonstrated that athletes can achieve enormous performance gains after just a few minutes of EFT.In this authoritative book, Gary Craig shows how to eliminate the limiting beliefs that hold you back, control the anxiety that distracts your attention from high performance, and build a strong new self-image of yourself as an athlete of the highest caliber. It is packed with stories of real-life people who've used EFT to improve their games, and dozens of tips for adjusting your performance to bring out your highest potential. If you've been looking for a small investment of time that can pay huge dividends in your performance, EFT is it. Try it, and you'll be amazed at how quickly it can transform your game. ... Read more