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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Coal miner's daughter, gifted athlete, and head coach of the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights, C. Vivian Stringer tells her story of facing punishing odds yet managing to carry her burdens with grace and lead her team twice to the national championships.
2) Grown ups
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Five friends and former teammates reunite on the Fourth of July weekend to honor the passing of their former high school basketball coach.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press HC, The
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In Players First, John Calipari relates for the first time anywhere his experiences over his first four years coaching the Kentucky Wildcats, college basketball's most fabled program, from the doldrums to a national championship, drawing lessons about leadership, character, and the path to personal and collective victory. At its core, Calipari's coaching philosophy centers on keeping his focus on the players--what they need to get the best out of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A provocative assessment of legendary UCLA coach John Wooden by the best-selling author of When March Went Mad draws on hundreds of interviews from all periods of his career to offer insight into his driving ambition, divided relationships and hard-won lessons.
8) The way back
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...
11) The miracle of St. Anthony: a season with Coach Bob Hurley and basketball's most improbable dynasty
Author
Publisher
Gotham
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 2003-2004 basketball season at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, profiling the team's coach and players and describing how the team rose to the top of their league.
12) Play for Keeps
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mixing business and pleasure is a dangerous game ... Tyrell Ransom, the new men's basketball coach, is ready to whip his team into shape and start winning some games. But when compromising photos of his soon-to-be-ex-wife with one of his players go viral, everything comes crashing down. With reporters thick on the ground, Ty and his team need some serious damage control -- now . When public relations guru Millie Jenkins arrives in her leopard-print...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching basketball at Pennsylvania State University - no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules, examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes, thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. In 2006, student athlete Jennifer Harris, in conjunction with the National Center for Lesbian Rights,...
Author
Publisher
Loyola Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From one of the most inspiring and driven Division I basketball coaches today, Porter Moser offers a practical and motivating guide to help build character, transform failure into success, find purpose, and live an authentic life through energy and positivity. Porter Moser knows what it's like to live and work with determination, passion, and grit. He also knows what it's like to keep front-and-center the core values of faith, family, honesty, and...
17) Coach Carter
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
18) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
19) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
20) The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"The Legends Club is a sports book that captures an era in American sport and culture, documenting the inside view of a decade of furious competition. Feinstein pulls back the curtain on the recruiting wars, the intensely personal competition that wasn't always friendly, the enormous pressure and national stakes, and the battle for the very soul of college basketball allegiance in a hot-bed area. Gets to the roots of the NCAA goliath that is followed...
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