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Publisher
Dreamline
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Charlie Chaplin in four shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy street and The Immigrant. (66 min., 1917, b&w)
College: Ronald is an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. (66 min., 1927, b&w)
The Red Skelton show: Comedy skits, gags, and vignettes from Red Skelton's weekly shows. (60 min.,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Both dispatch and dissertation, NPR contributor Diane Roberts, an English professor at Florida State University, gives a insider's account of a big time college football program in the midst of controversy, while examining the impact and legacy of the sport's popularity in America today"--
Author
Series
Check please! volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eric Bittle is heading into his junior year at Samwell University, and not only does he have new teammates—he has a brand new boyfriend! Bitty and Jack must navigate their new, secret, long-distance relationship, and decide how to reveal their relationship to friends and teammates. And on top of that, Bitty's time at Samwell is quickly coming to an end...It's two full hockey seasons packed with big wins and high stakes!
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"By the face of The Big Ten Network, the story of the creation of the college football nation from 1890 to 1915, the intense media coverage, the academic fraud, recruiting scandals, shocking violence, new sports superstars, and the manifest destiny of football out of the Ivy League and to the Great Midwest"--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Love games (Maggie Wells) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
10) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who...
Author
Series
Check please! volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is Jack, his very attractive...
15) Blue chipper
Author
Series
Morgan Hunt novels volume 2
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Morgan Hunt uncovers a big-time college sports conspiracy when a state university coach blackmails an athlete to play for the college rather than shoot for the Ivy League.
16) Cheating the spread: gamblers, point shavers, and game fixers in college football and basketball
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
"Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On November 23, 1968, near the end of a turbulent and memorable year, there was a football game that would also prove turbulent and memorable: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. Both teams entered undefeated and, technically at least, came out undefeated. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players on the field, it was a triumph; to others a tragedy. And to many, the reasons had as much to do with one side's miraculous comeback...
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