Pat Summitt has been called a living legend. As head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, Summitt has taken her NCAA Division 1 women's basketball team to back-to-back national championships in 1996 and 1997, and five titles in a 10-year span. In Reach for the Summit, with the help of former Sports Illustrated writer Sally Jenkins, she draws from 24 years as a successful head coach to provide motivational advice for anyone who wants to succeed in sports, business, and life in general. Structured around her Definite Dozen system, each chapter covers one of her 12 commandments of achievement by interweaving personal anecdotes, strategies for success, and basic ethics. A lot of people can win once, she writes. They get lucky, or follow their intuition, or strike on a good short-term formula. But very few people know how to repeat success on a consistent basis. They lose sight of their priorities, grow content, and abandon their principles. Summitt's book is about building a system of principles and sticking to it.
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Recent Duke University graduate Aaron Dinin has produced an entertaining, imaginative look at Krzyzewskiville, the tent city named after Duke University's head men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (Sha-shef-ski). A unique Duke tradition, Krzyzewskiville is used to determine which students are admitted into key games. Taking Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as his model, Dinin has created characters who narrate their semifictionalized talesâby turns reverent, bawdy, and humorousâto enlighten readers about this cherished institution.So the story begins. On a wintry night in Durham, North Carolina, writes Dinin, twelve students huddle under the meager protection of a nylon tent. They have little in common except the sacrosanct tradition that has brought them together for the past month. Before the sun next sets, they will anoint themselves in blue and white paint and enter nearby Cameron Indoor Stadium to worship at the altar of Blue Devils basketball. In the meantime, they abide in Krzyzewskiville.A stranger enters the tent, a respected sportswriter, and suggests that the tenters pass the hours until the next tent check by telling stories of Krzyzewskiville. Like Chaucer’s pilgrims, the students compete to tell the best tale. They report on ribald tenting exploits, relate a dream in which Duke basketball players and coaches test a fan’s loyalty, debate the rationality of tenting as a way of allocating students’ tickets, and describe the spontaneous tent city that sprang up one summer when their beloved “Coach K” was offered a job elsewhere. This storytelling competition creates a loving portrait of the complex rules and tribal customs that make up the rich community and loyal fans that are Krzyzewskiville.Mickie Krzyzewski, Coach K’s wife and a familiar courtside figure at Duke basketball games, has contributed a foreword praising the “love, commitment, and ownership” of the citizens of Krzyzewskiville.
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Full Court tells the story of an often-forgotten but remarkable time in St. Louis sports historythe era of the NBAs St. Louis Hawks. Author Greg Maracek has woven together a compilation of interviews from the Hawks players to deliver a history of a former perennial power in the National Basketball Association. Between 1955 and 1968, pro basketball closely rivaled the attentionand at times outstripped the successof baseballs St. Louis Cardinals. A storied rivalry with the fabled Boston Celtics is credited by many as the single most important catalyst to the national growth of NBA interest. Names of Hawks stars became legendary to basketball fans. Leading the way is Hall of Fame superstar Bob Pettit, the first player to score 20,000 pointsand later 25,000in a career. Other Hall of Fame Hawks include Cliff Hagan, Slater Martin, Len Wilkens, and Easy Ed Macauley. Pettits 50-point performance in the 1958 championship game, NBA doubleheaders at Kiel Auditorium, owner Ben Kerners sometimes wild and wacky postgame promotions, division and conference titles, sold-out crowds, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Cousy, and one incredible St. Louis World Championship season makes for riveting reading not only for fans of St. Louis sports but also for lovers of NBA lore.
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In 1863 a group of Victorian Oxbridge graduates, frustrated by the confusing riot of competing rules that characterized the game of  British football, began meeting at the Freemasonâs Tavern in Lincolnâs Inn Fields, London, to codify the rules of the game. They quickly drew up the standard set of rules, creating the First Rule Book of the Football Association, reprinted here in its entirety alongside illustrations and drawings of the game.
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Fully revised and updated for the 2010 World Cup, England Expects is the definitive history of the England football team. From the inaugural international matches in the mid-19th century, via the glories of 1966 through the advent of Fabio Capello's reign, it is an engrossing and graphic narrative history of the inside stories, dramas and shattered dreams of our nation's footballers. The second edition is revised to include a new introduction, a new chapter detailing all the agonies of the 2006 World Cup and the contrasting fortunes of Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello.
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Dean Smith's numbers speak for themselves: head basketball coach at North Carolina for 36 seasons, he posted 879 victories, 27 NCAA bids, 11 Final Four appearances, and two national championships. He sent Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, Billy Cunningham, and James Worthy to the NBA. He also kept his mouth shut. A man of many opinions and much insight, Smith kept his own counsel, dispensing what he needed to whom he needed when he needed to. The World According to Dean collects several decades of Smithiana, catalogues his mots, adds a host of photos and a Smith chronology, borders the pages in Carolina blue, and then pretty much lets it all speak for itself--loudly, smartly, and, when necessary, pithily. On statistics: "I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think"; on defense: "Most of our thoughts are directed toward how we're going to stop the other team"; on team chemistry: "It comes and goes depending on who's happy"; on His Airness: "His charisma is something I can't believe ... it's just eerie"; on losing to Temple: "I might start drinking now"; on losing to archrival Duke: "I have some work to do on myself. I'll see my wife tonight. She's a psychiatrist." Even the quotes on Smith that pepper the pages are worth thinking about, like this one from Connecticut women's coach Geno Auriemma: "Dean Smith is more organized than crime." He certainly has a better record. --Jeff Silverman
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This top-selling guide caters specifically for football supporters and contains extensive information about the country's top 92 clubs. The 21st edition will contain many new ground photographs, detailed travelling and historic data and disabled supporters' information. The guide also includes statistical information for the 2003/2004 season including results, final tables and a full record of the England National teamgames played. Other Supporters' Guides, covering Non-League Football, Scottish Football and Welsh Football will also be published during August 2004.
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