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Publisher
Eclipse Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Jockeys perform the most perilous job in sports yet are among the most underrated athletes in the world. They put their lives on the line every time they get on a horse, often riding 7 or 8 horses a day, five days a week. Most must diet to keep their weight at levels lower than the average 12 year old boy, yet they need immense strength to control 1000 pound Thoroughbreds. All too often, drugs, diuretics, and archaic sweatboxes are used in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This book describes the fluctuating American appetite for soccer, and chronicles the game at college and professional levels. Wangerin also writes of the city of St. Louis's unique historic attachment to the sport, Tom Cahill, the "father of American soccer," and the 1979 North American Soccer League season.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Describes the formative years of the renowned football coaches when they worked together as coordinators for the New York Giants in the mid-1950s, discussing how they each developed their unique coaching styles before they became famous.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Traces a season in the Mexican border city where in spite of brutal violence its citizens are held together by a shared love for its soccer team, and addresses local drug and human trafficking issues and the city's high murder rate.
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