Product Description
This series looks at how people succeed and reach the top of their chosen sport. Each book includes information on basic aptitude and ability, techniques, fitness and training, diet, equipment and much more. Containing fascinating facts about all aspects of the sport, it includes case studies about the sport and its well-known personalities. It features champions and competitors from around the world. Each book contains at least 50 photographs and explanatory diagrams. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Itoro Umoh-Coleman, Mfon Udoka, Mactabene Amachree, Mobolaji Akiode, Rashidat Sadiq, Joanne Aluka, Linda Ogugua, Taiwo Rafiu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Itoro Umoh-Coleman (born Itoro Umoh on February 21, 1977 in Washington, D.C.) is a former WNBA basketball player. She played for the Lady Clemson Tigers in college and is currently the head basketball coach for that team. In 2002, she was selected for the Atlantic Coast Conference 50-year all-star women's basketball team as well as 25th Anniversary Tournament team. Born in D.C., Umoh-Coleman spent her early years living in Hephzibah, Georgia. She attended Hephzibah High School and played for the Lady Rebels under coach Wendell Lofton. She graduated in 1995. During her tenure at Clemson from 1995-1999, she led the Lady Clemson Tigers to two ACC Championships. While at Clemson, she played both point guard and shooting guard. During her 1995-1996 freshman year at Clemson, in which Clemson won the ACC Championship, she led the team in assists and steals. At Clemson, she was a 3-time All-ACC player. During her 1999 senior ACC tournament, she was awarded the MVP award in a rare unanimous vote. That same year, she was an honorable mention for the All-American team and Defensive All-American. Umoh-Coleman also represented the United States during the 1999 Pan American Games with the team winning a bronze medal. She scored her 900th career point during a Clemson-Wake Forest game in which coach Jim Davis won his 100th game. In 2001, she became the first Clemson player to be named to an active WNBA roster after being signed by the Houston Comets. She played in three games for the team in 2003. Her first coaching job was a student assistant job for Liberty University in 1999. After graduat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21800344 ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Olympic Basketball Players of Czechoslovakia, Egon Steuer, Eva Němcová, Radoslav Rančík, Ladislav Trpkoš, Richard Petruška, Josef Moc, Alois Dvořáček, Eugen Horniak, Jozef Kalina. Excerpt: Egon Steuer was born in Koice, Czechoslovakia (currently Slovakia), on November 23, 1935. He was a basketball player in the professional league of his country, playing for, Sparta Praha (Prague), Slovan Bratislava and The Czechoslovakian National Team. In the mid 1960's, Egon Steuer became the head coach of the Netherlands national basketball team. He stayed on for 4 years. After his successful tenure in The Netherlands, Egon Steuer was contracted by Olympique Antibes as head coach. With that team he won 2 French National Championships. He stayed in France as a coach for 8 years. He also met his Dutch wife, Yvonne Steuer-Walthausen, while he lived in France. They were married by the Mayor of Nice in a celebrity studded event. Together with his Dutch wife, Egon returned to The Netherlands in 1977, and went on to be a successful coach in Dutch basketball teams. He coached, Haarlem, Amsterdam and Den Bosch. When he retired from Basketball in 1981, Egon refocused on his "other" career, architectural engineering. He worked as an architect for a Dutch agency for 4 years, and co-designed the new headquarter building of Dutch multinational Philips N.V. in Eindhoven. After that, he became President and CEO of one of Amsterdam's leading social housing companies, which grew its portfolio of houses and apartments from several thousands when he started, to close to 40.000 when he retired in 2001. Since his retirement Egon has been active as Managing Advisor for Bouwfonds N.V., a Dutch ABN Amro Bank N.V. owned real estate developer. Steuer is in charge of their Eastern... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3938034 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Fm-2030, Hamed Haddadi, Samad Nikkhah Bahrami, Hamed Afagh, Mehdi Kamrani, Amir Amini, Oshin Sahakian, Mousa Nabipour, Javad Davari, Ali Doraghi, Iman Zandi, Saeid Davarpanah, Hamed Sohrabnejad, Hossein Saoudipour. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hamed Haddadi (Persian: , born May 19, 1985 in Ahvaz) is an Iranian professional basketball player with the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays at the center position and is 2.18 m (7'2") tall and weighs 280 lbs. Haddadi is the first Iranian to play in the NBA. Haddadi played in the Iranian Basketball Super League with Paykan and Saba Battery. In August 2007, while still playing in Iran, he rejected a contract offer from the Serbian League team Partizan Belgrade. In 2008, he won the Asian Club Championship. Haddadi received offers from NBA teams prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics and stated he would sign with a team after the games. Complications existed because of legal restrictions regarding business dealings between U.S. companies and Iranian citizens. On August 28, 2008, Haddadi signed with the NBA club the Memphis Grizzlies as a free-agent. Haddadi scored four points in 17 minutes of action in his first NBA preseason game, an October 7, 2008 loss at the Houston Rockets. Haddadi averaged 1.7 points and 3.3 rebounds in 9.7 minutes in six preseason games with the Grizzlies, and made his regular season debut on December 30, when he played 4 minutes in a loss against the Phoenix Suns, hitting both of his free throws and grabbing one rebound. He was assigned to the Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League (D-League) between November and December 2008. On November 25, 2008, Memphis assigned Haddadi to the Dakota Wizards of the NBA D-League. On Tuesday, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12629805 ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Palaestra, published by Challenge Publications Limited on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 2530 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: The effect of a pre-shot routine on the basketball free-throw accuracy of Special Olympics basketball players: a pilot study.
Author: Jin-Jin Yang
Publication: Palaestra (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 1998
Publisher: Challenge Publications Limited
Volume: v14Issue: n2Page: p38(6)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mario Morales, Rubén Rodríguez, José Ortiz, Jerome Mincy, Carlos Arroyo, Ramón Rivas, Daniel Santiago, Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, Ramón Ramos, Alfred Lee, Raymond Gause, Teófilo Cruz, Elías Larry Ayuso, Raymond Dalmau, Christian Dalmau, Manolo Cintron, Eddie Casiano, Federico López, Georgie Torres, Nathan Peavy, Rafael Valle, Hector Blondet. Excerpt:Point guard Alfred "Butch" Lee (born December 5, 1956) is a retired Puerto Rican -born professional basketball player. He is the first Puerto Rican national to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lee played in the NCAA , NBA, and National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico (BSN). He played for the Atlanta Hawks , Cleveland Cavaliers , and the Los Angeles Lakers while in the NBA. Lee was a member of the Puerto Rican national basketball team , including the 1976 Puerto Rican squad that came close to defeating the United States. Most notably, Lee was selected as the Most Outstanding Player at the 1977 Final Four where he led the Marquette Warriors to the school's first national championship. Lee earned All-American honors as both a junior and senior while at Marquette University . The university later retired Lee's jersey. Biography Lee was born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico to an American couple. Lee's family moved to Harlem , New York , U.S., when he was a young child. There he went on to become a 1st Team, PSAL All City basketball player and honor student at the De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx . Lee showed talent for basketball since an early age, and he impressed many college scouts with his game style. He accepted an offer to play for Marquette , starring there from 1974 to 1978. In 1974 Lee asked his coach Al McGuire to allow him to play for the United States Olympic basketball team. However, his c... ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dejan Bodiroga, Aleksandar Pavlović, Igor Rakočević, Predrag Drobnjak, Miloš Vujanić, Petar Popović. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dejan Bodiroga (Serbian Cyrillic: ; born March 2, 1973 in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. He was listed at 2.05 m (6 ft 8 ¾ in) tall and 110 kg (243 lbs.) and was a small forward-shooting guard. Bodiroga first started playing structured basketball at the age of 13. He enrolled in Zrenjanin's Mainac (Servo Mihalj) basketball section, under supervision of local basketball enthusiast Rade Prvulov. At the age of fifteen, he sprung up to 2.05m, and was quickly incorporated into the first team squad, coached by Miodrag Sija Nikoli, a former OKK Beograd and FSFR Yugoslav national team player in the 1960s. His domestic career took off when, at 17, he was noticed by Kreimir osi at a friendly youth tournament that featured Mainac and KK Zadar among others, where Bodiroga scored 32 points in a game that pitted two teams. osi then brought Bodiroga for a week-long basketball camp in Zadar and eventually persuaded Bodiroga's family to allow their son to move away to Zadar. In the meantime Bodiroga signed a pre-contract with KK Vojvodina so that when he finally went to Zadar in autumn 1989 he wasn't right away eligible for the first team, meaning that he first worked with coach Josip Pino Grdovi in the club's youth sections while simultaneously attending high school. Afer a year he was allowed to be moved into the full squad, then under head coach Slavko Trnini. After just one season in the first team, Bodiroga's stay on the Dalmatian coast came to a premature end when the conflict that pitted Croats and Serbs against each other inflamed in May-June 1991. The country w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=361959 ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mark Dickel, Sean Marks, Pero Cameron, Donna Wilkins, Belinda Colling, Aaron Olson, Angela Marino, Suzie Bates, Paul Henare, Jessica Mccormack, Nonila Wharemate, Phill Jones, Aneka Kerr, Charmian Purcell, Micaela Cocks, Ed Book, Kate Mcmeeken-Ruscoe, Lisa Wallbutton, Nenad Vučinić, Natalie Purcell. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Mark Dickel (born December 21, 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a New Zealand professional basketball player. He also holds Australian citizenship. He is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighs 88 kg (195 lbs). He plays the point guard position. He currently plays for the A1 Ethniki club Trikala 2000 BC in Greece. Dickel played college basketball in the U.S. at UNLV from 1996 to 2000, tying for the team lead in assists his freshman year of 1996-97 and leading the team in that category in his remaining three seasons. In his senior year of 1999-2000, his 9.0 assists per game led NCAA Division I men's basketball, and he finished his career third on the school's all-time list for total assists. 2000 Dickel was named an Associated Press All American Dickel started his professional career in 1993, playing for the Otago Nuggets in the New Zealand NBL. He was named rookie of the year and played with the Nuggets until 1996, when he left to play college basketball with UNLV. He then played for the New Zealand NBL team North Harbour Kings in 2000 followed by the Victoria Titans from 2000 to 2002 in the Australian NBL, before pursuing a career in Europe. Dickel lead the TBL in assists in 2002-03, playing for Fenerbahçe. This year Dickel was named Eurobasket MVP and Guard of the year in Turkey, and in 2004-05, playing for Erdemirspor averaged 19.6 points and 9 assists. He was selected to play for the Rest of the World team in the 2006 F...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11177693 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: National Basketball Association Nielsen Ratings, Nfl on Television, Olympics on Television, List of National League Championship Series Broadcasters, List of American League Championship Series Broadcasters, List of American League Division Series Broadcasters, College Football on Television, List of Nba All-Star Game Broadcasters, List of National League Division Series Broadcasters, Nba on Tbs, Tnt Sunday Night Football Results, Olympics on United States Television, Nascar on Tnt, Major League Baseball on Tbs, List of Fifa World Cup Finals Broadcasters, Inside the Nba, Nba on Tnt, Braves Tbs Baseball, Major League Baseball on Cable Television, List of Major League Baseball on Tbs Broadcasters, List of Nba Western Conference Final Broadcasters, List of Nba on Tnt Broadcasters, List of Nba Eastern Conference Final Broadcasters, College Football on Tbs, Fox Sports South, List of Coke Zero 400 Broadcasters, Ratings for Major League Baseball on Tbs Broadcasts, List of Major League Baseball One-Game Playoff Broadcasters, Remember the Name, Goodwill Games, List of Gatorade Duel Broadcasters, Nfl on Tnt, List of Nascar Banking 500 Only From Bank of America Broadcasters, List of Southern 500 Broadcasters, List of Budweiser Shootout Broadcasters, List of Coca-Cola 600 Broadcasters, List of Pep Boys Auto 500 Broadcasters, Turner South, List of Carfax 400 Broadcasters, List of Lifelock 400 Broadcasters, Nascar on Tbs, List of Pennsylvania 500 Broadcasters, List of Crown Royal Presents the Your Name Here 400 Broadcasters, List of Gator Bowl Broadcasters, List of Pocono 500 Broadcasters, List of Aaa 400 Broadcasters, List of Toyota/save Mart 350 Broadcasters, List of Chevy Rock and Roll 400 Broadcasters, List of Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen Broadcasters, List of Sharpie 500 Broadcasters, Olympics on Tnt Commentators, List of Champs Sports Bowl Broadcasters, Cnn Sports Illustrated, List of Pop Secret Microwave Popc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4514530 ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Kiribati national basketball team are the basketball side that represent Kiribati in international competitions. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13007265 ... Read more

Product Description
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vlade Divac (born February 3, 1968 in Prijepolje, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the United States' NBA. At 7'1", he played center and was known for his passing skills. Divac was among the first group of European Basketball players to transfer to the NBA in the late 1980s and was named as one of Euroleague's 50 greatest contributors. Divac is one of four players in NBA history to record 13,000 points, 9,000 rebounds, 3,000 assists and 1,500 blocked shots, along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Garnett and Hakeem Olajuwon. ... Read more

Product Description
Packed with full-color photos, brief bios, and majorstats of the hottest basketball superstars, this timely book providesprofiles of each of the twelve players on Team USA for the 2000 SummerOlympics, plus a look at the team's coaching staff. ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Helliniko Olympic Complex, Peace and Friendship Stadium, Olympic Indoor Hall, Paok Sports Arena, Alexandrio Melathron, Helliniko Olympic Arena, Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena, Glyfada Indoor Hall, Panellinios Indoor Hall, Patras Arena, Galatsi Olympic Hall, Heraklion Arena, Sporting Sports Arena, Rethymno Indoor Hall, Maroussi Indoor Hall, Indoor Hall Peristeriou, Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall, Dafni Indoor Hall, Xanthi Arena, Apollon Patras Indoor Hall, Thessaloniki Forum. Excerpt:Palais des Sports Alexandrio Melathron , also called Palais des Sports (Thessaloniki) , is an indoor sports arena located in Thessaloniki , Greece . With a 5,500 capacity, the arena hosts the home games of the professional basketball team of Aris Thessaloniki of the Greek League . Location Alexandrio is situated in the center of the city, on the grounds of the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair . To find the arena, just walk along Egnatia Street, which runs between the university campus and the fair and you will easily spot it. The bus lines of #2, #7, #8, #10, #14, #27, #31, and #58 stop right in front of the arena. Construction The arena was built in 1966 and was rapidly redeveloped and updated in the year 2004 in preparation for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games . The updates involved reconstruction of all of the building's external and internal areas. Apart from what is directly visible to everybody, other works included new electromechanical, air-conditioning and audiovisual facilities. New seats, CCTV and new lighting were also installed. These updates unfortunately resulted in a lower capacity (5,500 compared to the previous 6,000) for Alexandrio Arena, which reopened its gates in late 2004. Finally, it should be noted that Aris has been granted exclusive use of the arena until the year 2024, fo... ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following is a list of results of the United States men's basketball team at the Olympics: ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19624268 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

She's the Best, and this is a view form the first WNBA Season
Over the course of Lisa Leslie's very successfulcareer she's emerged as the Top women's center to ever play the game, if not the top playerregardless of position.This book is great for it's stories about the earlyyears when Lisawas in high school andcollege. Follows her careerright thru the firstWNBA Season. I find it an interesting read to look back on the perception of Lesliefrom 10 years ago, since then she's only gotten better. A very good read about a most beautiful and gifted woman,who is also an athlete who has been the face of the women's gamefor USA Basketball internationally for more than a decade. This book helps with the "before" part of the story for the "after" we are aware of today. Also it gives a good perspective on where she was as a player and should be a real nice timecapsule for anyone who follows Lisa's stellar career. (It must be in the final years at this point.) She has shownthe drive to continue to work to reach her goals, and improve her game every year. How much more can she continue to do this? This book won'tgivethat answer, but it might help you ujnderstand the mountain she's climbed thru theyears.
Downside of the book? Only that it does not have the full decade of WNBAplay to draw from. This was written in 1997, the leagues first season.If you've been a fan of Lisaover the years, you know most of this stuff, and more.ON the positive side, if you're a new fan of the WNBA of women's basketball, the Sparks and or Lisa Leslie, then this bookgives you background on her that covers the time before she became as polished and successful as she is today. Lisa is an inspiration and she takes nothing for granted this book is a great read for anyone looking for the good side of sports andathletes whoyou can look up to with honor.Plus anyLisa Leslie Memorabilia collection is not complete without this book. ... Read more

Product Description
The author recounts how he formed the San Francisco Special Olympics basketball program. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

The Book That Never Left My Mind's Eye
I first read "B-Ball: The Team That Never Lost A Game" when I was in my seventh grade English class.We had to choose a book to read from the teacher's collection, and this one just drew me in.The title iswhat caught my attention.What sports fanatic wouldn't want to read aboutsome incredible basketball team that could never be beaten?It's seemedtoo good to be true.I began to read this book and quickly realized thatthis team was a different type of team.It was a recreational league teamthat was comprised completely of mentally challenged players.The authorof this book was the coach of team.He took the job having never dealtwith these types of people before.In their first practice he quicklybecame frustrated that the team members had no real sense of competitionand didn't understand his ideals of how to play basketball correctly.Inthe beginning he nearly quit, but hung on because he felt something deepdown that told him to keep trying.He continued with his team and hispractices.They played their first game, and to his surprise, the coachesof the other teams in their league, also comprised of mentally challengedindividuals, did not keep score, and played for fun.After weeks of thesegames, the author/coach came to the realization that basketball is to beplayed for fun, not for competion, for recognition, or for money.As longas everyone had fun, everyone was a winner. He continued coaching his teamthrough the years, and his team continued winning.They eventuallybroadened their competition, and played regular school teams, high schoolteams, and other recreational teams made up of players who were notmentally challenged.Each and every game however, they found a way forevery player on both times to just enjoy themselves as much as possible.And in this way, the team won every game they played.Along with the focuson the basketball aspect of this book, other areas were covered.Howpeople dealt with these mentally challenged basketball players was shownwell, and the problems that the coach and his players had to deal with toplay some of the teams they did was the focal point of the book.It was agreat book about how one can deal with a mental disability, and still havethe time of their life. I last read this book nearly four years ago, butI still remember it vividly in my mind.I read it more than once in thatEnglish class in 7th grade; I probably read it 10 times.I am not a hugefan of books, but I loved this one.I it one of my favorite books of alltime, and I feel that everyone should read it.If you can find a copy ofit, read "B-Ball: The Team That Never Lost A Game". ... Read more

Product Description
A close-up look at America's 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team profiles the superstars--Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and the others--who represent one of the most talented groups of athletes ever assembled. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. ... Read more