Athletics Books

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.

as a beginner to weight watching i found this book easy to grasp and understand. although i had already read another book the building a perfect body in 30 days i would also recommend this book for beginners. it is easy to read and very informative.

As a college basketball fan, I found this book to be very interesting. As the book claims on its back cover, it really does provide a behind-the-scenes look at a Division I basketball program. It also provided quite a bit of background information throughout Penders 10 years, all of which culminated in the final season and nasty ending. Not being a Texas fan personally, I recommend it to all college basketball fans who enjoy reading about the greatest sport on earth.

The book Careers for Sports Nuts and Other Athletic Types by Ray Heitzmann is a great informational book. The book tells about occupations in the athletic department. For example the book describes jobs like physical therapy, coaching, sports communication and much more. This book is more for high school students who want to go into athletics for an occupation. I believe this book is a great book. I choose this book because I want to go into athletics; this book helped me narrow my choices.

The book Careers for Sports Nuts and Other Athletic Types reminds me of the lawyers in Inherit the Wind. In Inherit the Wind the lawyers are very successful. For example one of t he charters ran for president three times. I also recommend reading Inherit the Wind.

This book contains the Muscle/Tendon change classic, short form of Tai Chi, 8 piece of brocade (Ba Duan Jin), and some other exercises. This alone was worth the price of the book; less than $10.00. But it also contains a nice section on chinese massage. Basically two books for less than $10. The other books with the Muscle/Tendon change classic I've seen range about $30.