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What's New in Sports? October 2020 |
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Sports Illustrated college football's greatest
by Bill Syken
In the fifth installment in the popular Greatest series, Sports Illustrated has assembled the ultimate rankings of everything in college football, alongside photos and classic stories from SI's archives, and features contributions from Tim Layden, Andy Staples, Austin Murphy and many others.
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The blind side : evolution of a game
by Michael Lewis
The best-selling author of Moneyball follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly paid players in the NFL.
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Bill Snyder : they said it couldn't be done : an inside look at the man, the coach and the greatest turnaround in college football history
by Mark Janssen
When Bill Snyder arrived as head football coach at Kansas State University prior to the 1989 season, he inherited the worst NCAA Division I football program on planet Earth. Seventeen years later, Snyder's orchestration of the greatest turnaround in college football history defines the American dream of achieving the unimaginable. This is the story of the process by which he helped transform a program considered the laughingstock of college football into one that won 136 games over seventeen years including eleven bowl appearances and seven seasons of at least ten wins. It's also the story of Snyder's own triumphant journey, one that forced him at a young age to deal with his own lack of discipline and academic shortcomings in a single-parent family, one that saw him climb to the top of big-time college football.
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Express
The story of Ernie Davis, who became the first African-American college football player to win the Hesiman Trophy.
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Horse feathers
As president of Huxley College, fun-loving Professor Wagstaff tries to keep the student body in line and get his son to graduate after twelve years by arranging to have professional football players to play for the school against their rival Darwin University.
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The Dynasty
by Jeff Benedict
It’s easy to forget that the New England Patriots were once the laughingstock of the NFL, a nearly bankrupt team that had never won a championship and was on the brink of moving to St. Louis. Everything changed in 1994, when Robert Kraft acquired the franchise and soon brought on board head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Since then, the Patriots have become a juggernaut, making ten trips to the Super Bowl, winning six of them, and emerging as one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world. Today, the team’s twenty-year reign atop the NFL stands as the longest in league history.
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One Life
by Megan Rapinoe
The Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion describes her childhood in a conservative California town, her athletic achievements and her public advocacy of civil rights and urgently needed social change.
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Before the ever after
by Jacqueline Woodson
The son of an idolized pro-football star begins noticing the contrast between his father’s angry, forgetful behavior and his superhero reputation before adjusting to a new reality involving difficult symptoms stemming from his father’s numerous head injuries. By the National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming. Simultaneous eBook.
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