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THIS IS A VERY EASY AND ENTERTAINING READ ABOUT CLEVELAND BROWNS HISTORY. IT COVER SUBJECTS LIKE PAUL BROWN, CLEVELAND STADIUM AND RIVALRIES. MANY FORMER BROWNS LIKE OTTO GRAHAM, PAUL WARFIELD, AND JIM BROWN GIVE ENLIGHTNING INFO ON THESE SUBJECTS. I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE VERY EASY TO READ AND I REALLY ENJOYED IT. RECOMMENDED FOR ALL BROWNS FANS FOR A QUICK AND NOSTALGIC TRIP THROUGH BROWNS HISTORY.

This is a comprehensive book detailing the most exciting games in Ohio State history! The pictures are amazing and listening to the CD makes you feel like you were there! This is a must have for any Buckeye fan.

This was a great book about the history of the Pirates, but being the Pirates were one of the originalmajor league teams its also a history of baseball.Contains alot oftrivia facts.

I grew up just blocks from The Ohio State University during the age of the great football rivalry between coaches Woody Hayes and Bo Shembeckler. Fall Saturday mornings were always spent on campus attending the warm up concert of the OSU Marching Band (TBDBITL - The Best Damn Band In The Land); tail-gating with family, friends, and phenomenal food; and, of course, cheering for the Buckeyes and watching them beat whatever team they were playing.

About that same time, Bud Wilkinson was obtaining legendary status as coach at Oklahoma, building one of the country's greatest ever football traditions which encompassed three national championships, 12 consecutive conference titles, 74 straight undefeated regular season games (1947 - 1959), 6 bowl victories, and career win-loss total of 145-29-4.

This book, Bud Wilkinson, An Intimate Portrait of an American Legend, by his son, Jay Wilkinson, and Gretchen Hirsch, details the length and breadth Bud's interesting and colorful life, through his coaching career, his career in the political arena, and his later years. A man of true grace and character, Bud was respected and admired by all those whose lives he touched. Delightfully written in a clear, entertaining style, this book is recommended for anyone who is interested in football, Oklahoma, great traditions, or simply a good role model.

I'm addicted to BJ Killeen's Build Books! This one is no exception. Tons of full-colour, detailed photographs show you how the Ringbrothers built up 'Reactor', from the ground up. They found a near-perfect '67 Mustang, stripped it and got to work. Reactor is fitted with lots of CNC-machined parts, which are photographed and described in detail. The Build Book experience is something no webzine or print magazine article can replicate. As always, Build Book #5 will show you behind the scenes fabrication, and how dedicated craftsmen shape metal, chop, grind, fabricate and paint to create a truly amazing work of (kinetic) art. In addition, the vendors are mentioned and advertise their products and services should you have ideas of building your own dream ride. Very inspirational, two thumbs up!

If I had a daughter
I'd dress her up in green
And send her over to Baylor
To coach the football team.

Just kidding. The original is, I think, a Georgia Tech song.

Anyway, the Baylor football team? Not the Women's basketball team? Or the Men's tennis team? Or the 4x400 team?

In any case, I never got sent off to Baylor. And I don't know much about football. But when my son comes to visit, he sometimes watches football, and I read this book so that I would "know a quick kick from a winged-T." It isn't about the Baylor Bears, but it is by "Bear" Bryant, a truly great football coach. This book was written in 1960, so it is a little dated. For example, it does not discuss the "wishbone" offense that Bryant used in the 1970s. It does not even mention the two-point conversion.

The author, Paul Bryant graduated from the University of Alabama in 1936, having played on the Crimson Tide's 1934 national championship team. As head coach at the University of Kentucky, he led the 1950 team to a victory over the Oklahoma Sooners. As Bryant related in this book, his team made a dramatic goal-line stand in that game and wound up winning 13-7. The voting for the national championship was held prior to the game rather than afterwards, so Oklahoma was awarded the national championship rather than Kentucky, but in 2005 the surviving Kentucky players were honored as national champions.

At Texas A&M, as he mentions in the book, Bryant led the 1954 team through an infamous pre-season training camp at Junction, Texas. 76 of his 111 players quit within ten days. The rest of the team basically, um, left it in the training camp and went 1-9 during the actual season, Bryant's only losing season as a head coach. Two years later, his team, including several of those who had been at Junction, was undefeated, won the Southwest Conference championship, and failed to go to a bowl game only due to, um, being on probation.

At Alabama, Bryant's teams won the Associated Press national championship in 1961, 1964 and 1965, and finished third (although undefeated and untied) in 1966. The fine 1973 team (UPI national champions) missed the AP national championship by one point in the bowl game. After a third place finish in 1975 and second in 1977, his teams won two more Associated Press national championships, in 1978 and 1979. Bryant retired after the 1982 season and died a month later.

Bryant was nicknamed "Bear" because he wrestled a bear at a carnival once when he was just barely a teen-ager. And he often wore a distinctive checkered "houndstooth" hat.

The book itself is interesting and teaches many fundamentals. It shows the importance of being organized. Bryant also makes the point that there is a big difference between being willing to put in the work it takes to become good and wanting to do that work.

There are a number of anecdotes that Bryant uses to make his points. He discusses how a long punt made late in a game went further than the coverage and was returned against his team for the winning touchdown. Not only did that show the problems with such kicks, it also led him to adopt a "spread" punt formation.

He showed that while preparation is a good idea, it does not always work. His team prepared carefully on how to recover an opponent's onside kick. When Cincinnati tried one, his best-handed eleven players were there and ready. But Cincinnati still recovered their kick. Before a game against Houston, his quarterback was warned that if the team were ahead by less than a touchdown with first and ten from its own territory late in the game, a sideline pass would be a very bad idea. Such a pass seriously risked an interception and game-losing touchdown. But his quarterback got into exactly that situation and tried such a pass, getting it intercepted. Luckily, Houston did not score.

There is an interesting discussion of Bryant's "prevent defense" which he calls the "victory defense." These defenses often fail, but Bryant had good success with it, and he used his best player in it to be the only one not to go after the ball, but to stay back to guard against some tipped ball or other "unlikely" eventuality.

One other Bryant anecdote showed that it is important for players to be reminded of some of the rules in a few relatively unusual situations. What if one has the ball at one's own one-yard line? And suppose it is very late in the game and one is clinging to a one-point lead. Suppose it is third down, so after an incomplete pass there is still a chance to punt. What should one be particularly aware of? Right. The risk of giving up a safety. That might lose the game on the spot. Well, how does one give up a safety? Get tackled behind the line of scrimmage. Lateral the ball out of the end zone. Get called for holding (did you all realize that this is not a yardage penalty but a safety?). Get called for intentional grounding. And so on. What if you throw the ball into the stands, but it goes out of bounds when it is still in the end zone? Is that a safety?

By the way, you might want to ask yourself if you know how a team can lose by a score of, say, 14-1. Right again. You get one point if you score a safety against the team that is trying to score an extra point after a touchdown. You probably need to block or intercept their extra point try, return it, lose the ball, and then tackle their player in the other end zone. Bryant does not give this example, but it is just one more obscure rule that even a football player may forget.

I recommend this book.

Truell breaks down how groups work together. He points out what can lead to arguments and ultimately cause a team break down. This book is a great idea for anyone who needs to work with a team of people.

I have read all of Robert Wysocki's books and this is by far his best. He's written a book that every Project Manager--rookie or seasoned pro--needs to read in order to improve his projects' success rates. As a PM with over 15 years of experience, I've had my share of projects derail or blow up and in many cases, poor alignment of the project team to the project was a significant cause. This book shows how to assemble the ideal team based on thinking styles and personality types for any given project. The chapters that covered problem solving and conflict management were especially insightful.

A new title; a new format for the book and the individual chapters; and lower price, all intended to make the book more readily and easily accessible to the physician, dietitians, nurses, and other professional that provide care to burned patient.

I HAVE USES MY BOOK TO WRITE PAPERS. ITS THE AS ANY OTHER COMMUNICATION BOOK. BUT THIS ONE WAS CHEAPER THAN BUYING IT FROM THE BOOK STORE.