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2023.
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English
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"The wild and highly anticipated autobiography of Billy Walters—“the greatest and most controversial sports gambler ever” (ESPN)—who shares his extraordinary life story, reveals the secrets to his fiercely protected betting system, and breaks his silence about Phil Mickelson. Anybody can get lucky. Nobody controls the odds like Billy Walters. Widely regarded as “the Michael Jordan of sports betting,” Walters is a living legend in Las...
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English
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Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world. Coronado is Maggie’s horse. An absolutely top-tier Belgian warmblood. Sky is Becky’s horse. A small, speedy Dutch warmblood. Only James Patterson could bring you such breakneck...
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English
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The executive editor of "Sports Illustrated" and a psychologist join forces to examine the behavior of those involved in professional sports, explaining how athletes can successfully put aside personal trauma on game day and why people love to root for aloser.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Takes sports to the extreme! Learn to fly like the wind when you take waterskiing to a whole new level, speed down a hill at lightening speed with no brakes, hit the mountains to meet some Olympic snowboarders and gear up for some off road racing.
7) Creed II
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Apollo Creed's son Adonis Johnson once again turns to Rocky Balboa to help him prepare for a fight against Viktor Drago, Ivan Drago's son.
8) Sports
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.
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English
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Walker starts with one of the most hotly debated questions in sports: What are the greatest teams ever--particularly those that sustained success over a long period of time. He devised a formula to compare the achievements of teams from leagues all over the world, and after painstakingly profiling thousands of them, produced a comprehensive, unbiased list of the 16 best. Period. At that point, Walker became obsessed with another, more complicated...
11) Southpaw
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, seemingly has it all: an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife, an adorable daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis, a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers.
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"What can Roger Federer teach us about the secret of longevity? What do the All Blacks have in common with improvised jazz musicians? What can cognitive neuroscientists tell us about what happens to the brains of sportspeople when they perform? And why did Johan Cruyff believe that beauty was more important than winning? Matthew Syed, the 'Sports Journalist of the Year 2016', answers these questions and more in a fascinating, wide-ranging and provocative...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship-at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
Author
Series
Once a runner novels volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid with aspirations to be a great athlete. As he explores his primal surroundings, along the Loxahatchee River and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, he is befriended by Trapper Nelson, "the Tarzan of the Loxahatchee," a well-known eccentric who lives off the land....
18) Creed
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
19) Hands of stone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Depicts the life of Roberto Duran, the Panamanian fighter who made his professional debut in 1968 as a sixteen year old and retired in 2002 at the age of 50. In June 1980, he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard to capture the WBC welterweight title, but shocked the boxing world by returning to his corner in their November rematch, famously saying the words 'no mas' (no more).
20) Overcomer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After his team is reduced to nothing when the largest manufacturing plant in town suddenly shuts down, a high school basketball coach mentors a struggling student in cross country.
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