Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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By Gwinn, Dylan[2015]., Regnery Publishing Call No: 070.4 GWI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Most of us see sports as a welcome-even blessed-relief from the challenges and frustrations of everyday life. We want to sit back, open a beer, and enjoy the game. But many of those who bring us the game have a different agenda-they use their broadcasting platform to harangue us with their own politically correct preoccupations. If a seventh-round NFL draft pick who can't make the team or an over-the-hill basketball player declares that he's gay, he gets wall-to-wall media coverage and is hailed as a hero. If a stripper accuses college lacrosse players of rape, liberal sports reporters lead the lynch mob-with no apologies when the bearers of "white privilege" are proved innocent. In his blistering new book Bias in the Booth, sports reporter and commentator Dylan Gwinn takes you inside the sports media spin machine to reveal what they hope you won't notice: the sports media are no different from the news and entertainment media"--
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By Zirin, Dave2021., The New Press Call No: 796.0896 ZIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A veteran sportswriter interviews high school athletes, college athletes, pro athletes and others involved in the nationwide movement to 'take a knee' in response to police brutality"--Provided by publisher.
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c2011., Stanford Business Books Call No: 338.477 CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines how the sports and entertainment industries have become linked in recent years and discusses how this convergence has impacted both industries and how they are perceived by the public.
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By Smith, Lissac1998., Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: 796 .082 0973 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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[2017]., Adolescent, Mason Crest Call No: 796.332 PET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: All about professional football.Summary Note: "Intense media scrutiny of pro football reveals all the flaws and faults of the game's players. But are those players the tiny minority or the norm? ... And what of the hundreds of players who do not get in trouble? Are they being unfairly implicated? How the NFL interacts with society and how the NFL treats lawbreakers is a huge issue, but a longtime football writer takes a broad look at the issue and tries to answer some of those questions"--Amazon.com.
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2003., Greenhaven Press Call No: 796 TOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Examining pop cultureSummary Note: Presents seventeen essays on the rise in popularity of professional sports in America and such topics as the values professional sports reflect, diversity in sports, and the impact of America's intense interest in sports stars.
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2003., ABC-CLIO Call No: 796 FRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Contemporary education issuesSummary Note: Examines the role of sports in the education process, and describes the complex issues and challenges related to sports in educational settings.
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2010., Chelsea House Call No: 796.09730904 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sports in America presents compelling and inspiring histories, in a decade-by-decade format, of the sports young readers love to watch and play. Each volume contains an introduction to the decade and year-by-year chapters that recount the important highlights of each time period, from the earliest days of the professional leagues to contemporary championships. Sports covered include auto racing, baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, horse racing, the Olympics, tennis, track and field, sailing scoccer, swimming and diving, and many more.
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2022., Pre-adolescent, HarperAlley Call No: GN CHR Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees - until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help. With Etta's training and a lot of hard work, Bree suddenly finds her swim-crazed community counting on her to turn the school's failing team around.
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2019., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 796.83 FLORIO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: America’s black boxing champion. Hitler’s favorite athlete. And a world at war. Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world.In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to a nation of blacks yearning to participate in the American dream. In Germany, Max was made to symbolize the superiority of the Aryan race. The two men climbed through the ropes with the weight of their countries on their shoulders—and only one would leave victorious. The battles waged between Joe and Max still resonate today. War in the Ring is the story of these two outsized heroes, their lives, their careers, and the global conflict swirling around them.
