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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
2) The way back
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A former high school basketball phenom, struggling with alcoholism, is offered a coaching job at his alma mater. As the team starts to win, he may have a reason to confront his old demons. But will it be enough to set him on the road to redemption?
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
Formats
Description
Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He's come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is whet he least expects.There's a spirit that endures in Willow Creek, Montana. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten outpost has a story, a reason for taking a detour to this place or a reason for staying.
Author
Pub. Date
©1995
Description
"Sacred Hoops is an inside look at the higher wisdom of teamwork from Chicago Bulls' head coach Phil Jackson. At the heart of the book is Jackson's philosophy of mindful basketball - and his lifelong quest to bring enlightenment to the competitive world of professional sports."--BOOK JACKET. "One of the most successful coaches in NBA history, Jackson has developed a new paradigm of leadership based on Eastern and Native American principles. His approach...
6) Grown ups
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Five friends and former teammates reunite on the Fourth of July weekend to honor the passing of their former high school basketball coach.
7) Champions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Author
Series
Love games (Maggie Wells) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
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 cape...
10) Rebound
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Description
Hothead college basketball coach Roy McCormick shows more interest in endorsement deals than in winning games. After an on-court meltdown, the hot-tempered college hoops coach is expelled from the league. In order to return, Coach Roy needs to prove he can win games without losing his cool, and his last chance is to take on a losing junior high school team of wise-cracking misfits. As Roy struggles to turn his lovable losers into champions, he discovers...
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Description
A Season on the Brink chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight. Knight granted Feinstein an unprecedented inside look at college basketball-with complete access to every moment of the season. Feinstein saw and heard it all-practices, team meetings, strategy sessions, and midgame huddles-during Knight's struggle to avoid a losing season. A Season on the Brink not only...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this definitive biography of the championship-winning basketball player and head coach of the record-breaking Golden State Warriors, an award-winning sports journalist looks at the man and the facets of his unusual life that have made him a legend.
Steve Kerr has won eight NBA titles-- five as a player and three as a coach-- for three different franchises. He played alongside the best players of a generation, and learned the craft of basketball...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden is known for his record-breaking run of NCAA championships and for working with some of the best players in the sport. His principles for success have been used by not only coaches and athletes, but also business leaders, entrepreneurs, and others. But his reach stretches even farther than most people know--into the hearts and lives of the people who learned the game of basketball on one of Coach Wooden's...
16) Coach Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The story of a high school basketball coach who receives both criticism and praise after benching his entire team due to poor grades.
17) The Mighty Macs
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In the early '70s, Cathy Rush became the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team had no gym or uniforms, and the school was in danger of being sold, Coach Rush steered her girls to their first national championship.
18) More than a game
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
One of the great coaches of the NBA reveals how he turned the Lakers around, teaching discipline to a seemingly undisciplined team.
20) Raise the roof: the inspiring inside story of the Tennessee Lady Vols' undefeated 1997-98 season
Author
Description
""It wasn't a team. It was a tent revival." So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships. Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and seasoned stars produced a standard of play that would change the game of women's basketball forever."--BOOK JACKET. "The...
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