The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball

The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball
Author: John Roth
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2006
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780822339045

Duke basketball is one of the most celebrated programs in intercollegiate athletics. With fourteen Final Four appearances and three national championships for the men's teams and five Final Four appearances and five ACC championships for the women's teams, the Blue Devils have established a worldwide reputation for excellence and have inspired the fierce devotion of generations of fans. The Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball is the ultimate reference source for true-blue fans, with profiles of great games, classic finishes (both wins and losses), and compelling personalities, including coaches, players, and opponents. While it includes statistical information, the Encyclopedia goes well beyond the numerical record to deliver insights on people and performances and anecdotes that will surprise even the most seasoned Duke supporter. Designed as a source of entertainment as well as insider information, this volume will be a great resource for fans hoping to settle arguments, win bets, relive favorite games, or simply enjoy hours of pleasurable reading.

The Secret Game

The Secret Game
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0316244635

Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.

The Joy of Basketball

The Joy of Basketball
Author: Ben Detrick
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1647003008

A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.

Duke Basketball

Duke Basketball
Author: Carla Mooney
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448894204

Duke Blue Devils basketball tradition is filled with winning statistics. They have advanced to the Final Four 15 times and have won the ACC championship 19 times, among other titles and accolades. This action-packed volume digs deep into the history of Blue Devils basketball, with key information on some of the most important players and coaches who brought victory to the team. It includes some rare historical images of actual games, as well as a timeline for quick reference.

Duke Basketball

Duke Basketball
Author: Lewis Bowling
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-08-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1625843968

Join author Lewis Bowling as he recounts the history of the Duke University Men's Basketball program through the lens of over 200 vintage images. The Duke University men's basketball program is certainly one such tradition, and Lewis Bowling has assembled more than two hundred brilliant photographs spanning the entire history of the program to show it. Enjoy a front-row view as this distinctive collection recounts Blue Devil glory, from the first teams of Trinity College through Eddie Cameron's masterful guidance and, of course, the unrivaled success under the watch of Coach K. Featuring forewords from the legendary Voice of the Blue Devils Bob Harris and former head coach Bucky Waters, Cameron Crazies far and wide will hail this celebration of Duke's greatest moments and some of basketball's most legendary coaches and players.

The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting

The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting
Author: Dan Doyle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1626365083

For more than a decade, former basketball coach Dan Doyle has been traveling the country, speaking to student-athletes and their parents about their involvement in and dedication to every sport imaginable. As founder and executive director of the Institute of International Sport at the University of Rhode Island, Doyle has attended his fair share of sporting events and has heard countless stories about confrontations taking place on and off the court between coaches, players, parents, and even fans. As the years passed, Doyle gathered everything he’d learned and heard and joined forces with Deborah Doermann Burch, a former schoolteacher and parenting expert, to write The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting. Together, they surveyed more than 500 successful sports figures to gain additional insight into what parents can do to guide their children through the competitive, sometimes disheartening—though oftentimes rewarding—world of sports. In this book, parents will learn how to express themselves in various challenging situations, including learning that their children have been cut from teams; have become victims of team violence, hazing, or bullying; or are not receiving adequate and assumedly deserved playing time.

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia
Author: Espn
Publisher: Espn Books
Total Pages: 1234
Release: 2009
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0345513924

A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.

ACC Basketball

ACC Basketball
Author: J. Samuel Walker
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2011
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 080783503X

Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dram

A March to Madness

A March to Madness
Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0316378089

It's the book in which America's favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful bestseller, A Season on the Brink. It's the book that takes us inside the intensely competitive Atlantic Coast Conference & paints a portrait of how college baskettball is coached & played at the highest level. It's the book that takes us onto the courts, into the locker rooms, & inside the high-pressure world of the talented coaches who have helped make the ACC's nine colleges - Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, Wake Forest, & Florida State - world-renowned for their championship basketball teams. The author's afterword to this edition will recap the ACC's current season & preview the 1998-99 rivalries.