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Summary: 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 under four legendary coaches. He was an integral part of two famed NBA dynasties. Born in Beirut to two academics, Kerr split his childhood between California and the Middle East. Howard-Cooper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KERR HOWContents: disc 1. Broke (79:00) / director, Billy Corben ; 9.79 (79:00) / director, Daniel Gordon -- disc 2. There's no place like home (59:00) / directors, Maura Mandt and Josh Swade ; Benji (77:00) / directors, Coodie and Chike ; Ghosts of Ole Miss (51:00) / director, Fritz Mitchell -- disc 3. You don't know Bo (76:00) / director, Michael Bonfiglio ; Survive and advance (101:00) / director, Jonathan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ESPFeinstein, John.
Summary: "The Legends Club is a sports book that captures an era in American sport and culture, documenting the inside view of a decade of absolutely incredible 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.323 FEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 FEISummary: Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Glory 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GLOAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ABDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ABDThompson, John
Summary: "The autobiography of the legendary coach of the Georgetown Hoyas, whose achievements on and off the basketball court reflect America's unresolved struggle with racial justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THOMPSON, JOHN THOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B THOMPSON THODavis, Seth
Summary: "What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent "us"? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It's one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball's greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach's Life. But John Wooden coached a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 DAVWashington, Jesse
Summary: "The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown Universitys legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America's unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 THOMPSON, JOHN WASJackson, Phil.
Summary: The coach of the Chicago Bulls discusses his paradigm of leadership based on Eastern and Native American principles, and how he has applied it during his years with the NBA team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995
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Summary: In the last temptation of Rick Pitino , Michael Sokolove lifts the rug on the Louisville scandal and places it in the context of the much wider problem, the farce of amateurism in bigtime college sports. In a world in which even assistant coaches can make high-six and seven-figure salaries, as long as they keep the "elite" athletes coming in, shoe deals can reach into the nine figures, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PITINO, RICK SOKWest, Jerry
Summary: "He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day. Now, for the first time, the legendary Jerry West tells his story-from his tough childhood in West Virginia, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.323 WEST, JERRY WesHeathcote, Jud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sagamore 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 HEABilas, Jay
Summary: The basketball player, coach, and ESPN analyst examines his life and career through the prism of toughness, which he explains comes from discipline, a team-oriented mind-set, and belief in oneself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILAS, JAY BILJacob, Mark
Summary: "The Harlem Globetrotters weren't from Harlem, and they didn't start out as globetrotters. Globetrotter is the fascinating biography of Abe Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant who took an obscure group of Black basketball players from Chicago's South Side, created the Harlem Globetrotters, and turned them into a worldwide sensation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 JACSummitt, Pat Head
Summary: Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author, tells for the first time her story of victory and resilience, as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SUMMITT, PAT HEAD SUMHaskins, Don
Summary: A basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, he used a starting lineup of five black players to beat the top-ranked University of Kentucky team, paving the way for desegregation of all Southern college teams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASKINS, DON HASWooden, John R.
Summary: The UCLA Bruins coach pays tribute to the individuals who helped foster the values that shaped his career and shares interviews with people he mentored throughout the years, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009