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Author: Michael O'Brien Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 1418558915 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 355
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Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Paperback includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.
Author: Editors of Sports Illustrated Publisher: Sports Illustrated ISBN: 9781603201988 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Consider for a moment that Harry Truman was President when Joe Paterno came to Penn State. More than six decades later, the bespectacled, gravelly-throated football icon had won more games than any major college coach while guiding teams to five undefeated seasons and two national titles. Although that tenure came to a sad end in November 2011, followed by Paterno's death from complications of lung cancer two months later, his achievements and the way he went about realizing them will endure. He was the rare coach who championed values and demanded academic excellence from his players, remaining as straightforward and constant through the years as the Lions' blue-and-white uniforms. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's retrospective of Joe Paterno is the definitive account of a remarkable career, collecting the best stories and photographs from the pages of SI to chronicle the story of this rare coach and the program he built. The man known simply as JoePa assumed a unique place in our collective sporting culture. This 208-page collection is a lasting remembrance of the history that he made at Penn State.
Author: Joe Posnanski Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 145165751X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 432
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From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno. Joe Posnanski’s biography of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno follows in the tradition of works by Richard Ben Cramer on Joe DiMaggio and David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi. Having gained unprecedented access to Paterno, as well as the coach’s personal notes and files, Posnanski spent the last two years of Paterno’s life covering the coach, on (and off) the field and through the scandal that ended Paterno’s legendary career. Joe Posnanski, who in 2012 was named the Best Sportswriter in America by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame, was with Paterno and his family as a horrific national scandal unfolded and Paterno was fired. Within three months, Paterno died of lung cancer, a tragic end to a life that was epic, influential, and operatic. Paterno is the fullest description we will ever have of the man’s character and career. In this honest and surprising portrait, Joe Posnanski brings new insight and understanding to one of the most controversial figures in America.
Author: Michael O'Brien Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 9781558537156 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 0
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Now in his 33rd year as head football coach at Penn State University, Joe Paterno has been called the Voice of Ethics, a breath of fresh air, a modern Renaissance man, and a football genius. This is an updated version of his critically acclaimed biography. Illustrations.
Author: Michael O'Brien Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 1418558915 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 355
Book Description
Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Paperback includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.
Author: Jerry Sandusky Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC ISBN: 9781582613574 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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Touched is the story of Jerry Sandusky's life in his own words. From his childhood to his professional career, this book goes behind the scenes to explore the successes and challenges that Jerry Sandusky has faced in life, both on and off the football field. After graduating from Penn State in 1966, Sandusky went on to coach collegiate football for 34 years. Thirty-two of those years were with Penn State, as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach under Joe Paterno, until his retirement in 1999. The book also explores Sandusky's involvement in children's charities, including the founding of his charity, "Second Mile."
Author: Editors of Sports Illustrated Publisher: Sports Illustrated ISBN: 9781933405377 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 312
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A fiftieth anniversary compilation of the best from the Sports Illustrated archives features photographs and articles from the popular sports magazine since its launch in 1954, offering a look at great moments in American sports history.
Author: Ronald A. Smith Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252098218 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 289
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The Jerry Sandusky child molestation case stunned the nation. As subsequent revelations uncovered an athletic program operating free of oversight, university officials faced criminal charges while unprecedented NCAA sanctions hammered Penn State football and blackened the reputation of coach Joe Paterno. In Wounded Lions, acclaimed sport historian and longtime Penn State professor Ronald A. Smith heavily draws from university archives to answer the How? and Why? at the heart of the scandal. The Sandusky case was far from the first example of illegal behavior related to the football program or the university's attempts to suppress news of it. As Smith shows, decades of infighting among administrators, alumni, trustees, faculty, and coaches established policies intended to protect the university, and the football team considered synonymous with its name, at all costs. If the habits predated Paterno, they also became sanctified during his tenure. Smith names names to show how abuses of power warped the "Penn State Way" even with hires like women's basketball coach Rene Portland, who allegedly practiced sexual bias against players for decades. Smith also details a system that concealed Sandusky's horrific acts just as deftly as it whitewashed years of rules violations, coaching malfeasance, and player crime while Paterno set records and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the university. A myth-shattering account of misplaced priorities, Wounded Lions charts the intertwined history of an elite university, its storied sports program, and the worst scandal in collegiate athletic history.
Author: Joe Posnanski Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451657501 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 432
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By America's premier sportswriter, written with full cooperation of Joe Paterno and his family, this account defines the epic life of America's winningest college football coach.
Author: Jimmy Johnson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1668008637 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
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FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first to win both a college football championship and a Super Bowl—shares his long-awaited, intimate, no-regrets memoir recounting his extraordinary life and insightful lessons on winning, at every level. Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson’s house isn’t on the way to anything. Yet, his private sanctuary on the Florida Keys’ Islamorada islands is a popular destination to which college and professional coaches, general managers, and team owners regularly trek to seek advice—how to build a positive team culture, draft elite players, balance work and family life, and lead a team to win. Why? Because Jimmy Johnson has done it all—rising through the college coaching ranks to lead the University of Miami Hurricanes to a national championship, winning two consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, and handling public triumphs while dealing with private adversity. Now, written with veteran sports journalist Dave Hyde, Johnson shares a candid account of his life experiences that have turned him into a legend in the coaching world. From his early days on the college football fields at Louisiana Tech to his arrival as the Cowboys’ coach in 1989, Swagger traces the history of Johnson’s career, and his lifelong mission to win. His larger-than-life personality and hard-driving, tough-talking coaching style led him to become one of only six coaches in NFL history to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Swagger shows the behind-the-scenes details of his professional conflict with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his personal revelations following his mother’s death and his son’s struggle with addiction. It reveals Johnson’s formula for winning, including his criteria for identifying talent, his core beliefs, how he replaced legendary coaches like Tom Landry and Don Shula, coached stars from a young Troy Aikman to an aging Dan Marino, and established the ever-elusive sense of “culture” that every team leader hopes to achieve. More than a highlight reel, Swagger reveals the hard-won lessons Jimmy Johnson has learned both as a man and as a coach through a lifetime dedicated to excellence.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education Publisher: ISBN: Category : Athletics Languages : en Pages : 214
Author: Michael O'Brien
Author: Editors of Sports Illustrated
Author: Joe Posnanski
Author: Michael O'Brien
Author: Michael O'Brien
Author: Jerry Sandusky
Author: Editors of Sports Illustrated
Author: Ronald A. Smith
Author: Joe Posnanski
Author: Jimmy Johnson
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education