Athletics Books

A very well produced informative scource of information concerning the
excellent programs and rescources at this world renowned military academy.
A great deal of information gathering went into the production of this
video, which is best described as a great presentation of the great educstional and athletic programs available to all those who, if fortunate enough to be chosen to attend, can expect to find. As one who has spent a good deal of time there, the video brings back a flood of fond memories for me. I would recommend it to anyone considering trying
for an appointment to the academy.

Thought it would be a little different weave. It's OK if you like slack fitting hats.

This is a terrific guide for your child to get a hold of what plans they need to have in place if they are truely serious about those claims that they want to be an athelete for a career. It will help you as a parent to figure out how serious they are, and if they are how to move forward towards planning and acting on helping them achieve their goal. It will help them look at goals and move forward with a purpose. I highly recommend this book.

The Athletic Eye written by Arthur Seiderman is a book that I enjoyed greatly, and would recommend it to anyone that wants to learn about the various important roles that the human eye plays in the world of sports today. Seiderman gives a great insight of visual exercises one can perform in order to increase visual skills for a particular sport. For example, he talks about how peripheral vision helps out a basketball player tremendously. Then, he goes on to get a picture demonstrated how to exercise your eyes in your own home in order to increase your peripheral vision! Overall, this book is a great book one should look into. Especially if you have a love for eyes and sports like myself.

In my many years of playing soccer (6 years) I have learned plenty of dribling, defence and offence skills but this book considerably helped my techniques improve vastly. I wrote this review beacuse i wanted to acknowledge the great author. I put the skills that he mentioned in his book to work and voila I was averging 24 goals a season (I worked really hard too) The book teaches you about pschycologic factors involved with the game and with great illustrations it depicts the techniques used by proffesional soccer players! Have fun! Enjoy it! Buy it!

I am not a sports person. Except as sports figures have impacted the subjects I am interested in-I know Denny McLain was a good lounge organist who recorded fine albums; Joe DiMaggio was the second husband of Marilyn Monroe, was destroyed by her death (as was his son, then in the Marines), and possessed a bigger part of male anatomy than Secretariat; Thurman Munson was killed in one of the first SP Citations (earlier, identical ones legally required a two man crew, ridiculous because copilots were far more needed in light twins with GTSIO Continentals requiring a flight engineer to manage them than a "corporate jet" slower than a T-33 and which modified P-51 Mustangs could outrun at most altitudes)-sports don't interest me.

But Callahan's book did. He covers Larry Bird,Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, Wilt Chamberlain, Boris Becker, many other names (Palmer and Nicklaus,Pete Rose, and Graf and Seles) even someone like myself-who really does live under a rock sometimes-cannot not have heard. He makes them interesting as people, as with the older generations of sportswriters like Si Burick and Jimmy Cannon (a name well known to all Sinatraphiles, as with Jilly and Toots) who have now passed on. And his brief discussion of "the other Marilyn"-Marilyn Maxwell, a fine actress in her own right who really was named "Marvel Marilyn Maxwell" at birth, unlike Mary Ellen Miller and Norma Jeane Mortensen Dougherty DiMaggio, and who died sadly of a heart attack in her forties-was fascinating and left me curious enough to look up the above trivia.

In summation, he fascinates people with sports who don't even like sports. Like Howard Stern, who can make you laugh in a traffic jam, that's a singular thing. Bravo!

I used this book to teach a P.E. class in basketball. It is a good 'text' type book for such a need.

It is a long read, and you might skip over or quickly scan through some of it, but you will want to at least look at every page. I knew some people in the book, heard of others, and others I had no idea about. But there are so many neat stories, it was well worth it.

It was interesting to read about Bernie too. He spoke at my HS lettermans banquet back in the early 80s. Sounds like he did a lot of that.

A great treatise on the relationship between America's love of sports and America's conflicted attitudes about race. But I can't imagine how the knowledgable authors could have written a book that is harder to read. They never use a simple word when a complex one will do; never go for short when long will do.

Don't read this book when you're sleepy, you'll never finish it. But if you are in a scholarly mode, you will learn a lot. I did.

These are excellent, incredibly impressive amount of information, for those delving into serious analysis in this area.

Blue Ribbon College Basketball Forecast: 1997-98 by Chris Dortch breaks down all the NCAA top level basketball teams for the coming season, and looks at the year before. It gives information on positions for players, likely minutes, depth, possible performance and a lot of other information you wouldn't find anywhere else in one source. Slightly changed, but still an excellent book.