Author: David E. Sumner Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476671419 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
Atlanta insurance salesman George Burnett found himself at the center of a football scandal when he overheard a phone conversation between University of Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Butts seemed to be giving Bryant play formations that would help Alabama defeat Georgia 35-0 in the 1962 season opener. When the Saturday Evening Post published Burnett's story months later, Butts and Bryant successfully sued the magazine for libel. The case went to the Supreme Court where it was upheld in a landmark 5-4 decision that expanded the legal definition of "public figures." Referencing more than 3,000 pages of letters, depositions and trial transcripts, the author reveals new information about this scandal and its resulting trial.
Author: Alexa Martin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 045149198X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 A second chance doesn't guarantee a touchdown in this new contemporary romance from the author of Intercepted. Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include a job at a nightclub, weekend soccer games, and more stretch marks than she anticipated, but it's all hers, and nobody can take that away. Well, except for one person. T.K. Moore, the starting wide receiver for the Denver Mustangs, dreamt his entire life about being in the NFL. His world is football, parties, and women. Maybe at one point he thought his future would play out with his high school sweetheart by his side, but Poppy is long gone and he's moved on. When Poppy and TK cross paths in the most unlikely of places, emotions they've suppressed for years come rushing back. But with all the secrets they never told each other lying between them, they'll need more than a dating playbook to help them navigate their relationship.
Author: David E. Sumner Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476632340 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
Atlanta insurance salesman George Burnett found himself at the center of a football scandal when he overheard a phone conversation between University of Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Butts seemed to be giving Bryant play formations that would help Alabama defeat Georgia 35-0 in the 1962 season opener. When the Saturday Evening Post published Burnett's story months later, Butts and Bryant successfully sued the magazine for libel. The case went to the Supreme Court where it was upheld in a landmark 5-4 decision that expanded the legal definition of "public figures." Referencing more than 3,000 pages of letters, depositions and trial transcripts, the author reveals new information about this scandal and its resulting trial.
Author: Jenn McKinlay Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593549147 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew helps two professional football players in knead when the athletes are suspected of murder and their dream of opening a bakery is crushed, from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. Professional football players Keogh Graham and Tyler Matthews want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise. They’re spending the off-season in Scottsdale working in Mel’s bakery, learning about the business and how to bake show-stopping cupcakes. The popular athletes bring a boom of customers to the store as football fans flock to see the friends mixing batter and piping icing. Everyone’s excited the athletes are pursuing their dream of owning a bakery—except for those who fear the players will ditch football for fondant and retire early from professional sports. The angry naysayers include their team owner and Keogh's sports agent, along with some very vocal fans. When the owner of their team, the Arizona Scorpions, is found dead on the floor of their new bakery following an argument with Keogh, the pros become prime suspects. As the investigation heats up, Mel and the rest of the cupcake bakery crew must step up and prove their franchise owners are innocent before it’s game-over for the new bakers.
Author: Dan Jenkins Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501122045 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world. You Call It Sports, But I Say It’s a Jungle Out There is a collection of his best work from Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Golf Digest, and his nationally syndicated column, and includes a stack of new pieces written especially for this book. Jenkins spares no one in his search for the culprits who have taken the fun out of sports: NFL owners and refs, PGA Tour administrators, basketball players who can’t read, tennis players who can’t speak English (or say anything worth hearing when they do). He also finds things worth celebrating: the electric charge given off by Arnold Palmer at his best, the excitement of a truly great college football game, or a real heavyweight champion, like Joe Louis. Overflowing with good ol’ boys, great one-liners, famous sporting events, and barroom tales, this is the best of Dan Jenkins—which is to say, it’s as good as sportswriting gets anywhere.
Author: Dave Smith Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807179280 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Looking Up collects more than a decade of new poems by Dave Smith. These include reflections upon events, animals, and people who prove to have a salutary significance to this poet, now approaching his eightieth year. He ponders the substantial changes wrought by retirement, which brings no expectations, no obligations, no role beyond what one has left, which prompts the question, What will you do now? Both the question and its answers are the subject of Looking Up, as Smith gives us poems as acts of attention, raptures, comedies, sardonic narratives, vignettes of grief and joy whose testimony shows that love is surely our core reality.
Author: Britney Bell Publisher: Britney Bell ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
Bestselling Contemporary Sports Romance Author Britney Bell brings you a fish out of water story with the Florida Sharks football team’s rookie and a newbie nanny. Madison is a small town Texas girl who knows all about hard work, but when she applies, and is hired, at the Practically Perfect Nannies Agency, she soon finds out she's in over her head with her client. Cade is new to the big game of professional football. He is trying to keep his head down, only focus on his duties to the team, and stay away from all the ‘bad’ extracurricular activities that go on all around the league. When the quarterback on the team needs a favor, the rookie is obligated to accept the task, but he never thought that task would involve a pretty little blonde who is completely out of her element. Order The Nanny's Fumble Recovery now to find out if this inexperienced duo will be able to survive all the newness they are up against.
Author: Euthal Green Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
It is early morning. The day after they arrived in Nassau to begin their vacation, Nanna wakes up to a note informing her that her daughter Ariana had gone for a swim. Ariana never returned. As the day wore on, Nanna is completely rattled. Nanna is lost. She knows no one. The police are unbelievably too casual. The US embassy is harsh with scandalous criticism. The government is overwhelmed and devastated and drowning in negative press. There is only one way out. Find the culprit. They did. There was the perfect match, or was there a rush to judgment? The solution is met by following the escapade of two fishermen from Porters Cay out to sea and back. The conclusion is incredibly thrilling.
Author: David E. Sumner
Author: Alexa Martin
Author: David E. Sumner
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Author: Dan Jenkins
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Author: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Author: Dave Smith
Author: Britney Bell
Author: Euthal Green