Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Sports that Kill PDF full book. Access full book title Sports that Kill by Thomas De Witt Talmage. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Bob Goldman Publisher: Elite Sports Publications Incorporated ISBN: 9780963145109 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
Part two of a three-part series that has drawn national media attention exploring the epidemic of athletic drug abuse. The hard-hitting text graphically exposes the effects of anabolic steroids and reveals other secret substances now being used. Includes rare, never-before-seen, photographs of athletes from behind the Iron Curtain and a history of drug-related sports deaths.
Author: Frank Hoffmann Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135894817 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
True to the spirit of the all-American athlete and our society's seemingly endless pursuit of and passion for leisure activities is Sports & Recreation Fads. This readable and fascinating reference book highlights some of the most notable as well as some long-forgotten pastimes and personalities. Sporting and recreation events have thrived in the United States for more than two centuries. Just about every sport and recreation embraced from Colonial America to the present has had its faddish aspects. The fascinating introduction provides a basic understanding of the importance of fads in the development of sports and recreation. No book on sports fads would be complete without several chapters on baseball, and this exciting volume is no different--Hank Aaron's 715th home run, baseball card collecting, Mark “the Bird” Fidrych's shining season with the Detroit Tigers, Bo Jackson's double career, Jackie Robinson's success in breaking the color barrier, and Pete Rose's gambling troubles--a true slice of Americana, the best and the worst of our favorite pastime! From the controversial people and events in professional athletics--Mohammed Ali, Joe Namath, Mike Tyson, the “battle of the sexes” between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, the “Black Sox Scandal,” and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, to the heroes--Charles Atlas, Joe Louis, and Babe Ruth, Hoffmann and Bailey illustrate the often fickle and sometimes enduring interest that Americans have for sports figures and their games. This informative and entertaining book also examines our personal quest for fitness, our devotion to automobiling, and our love of games, including bridge, charades, crossword puzzles, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit. Sports &Recreation Fads is a handy guide to our favorite leisure activities of the last 200 years.
Author: Jon Leizman Publisher: ISBN: 9780761813774 Category : Crowd control Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Leizman, a PhD (in some unnamed field), provides a brief overview and a review of sports literature, then discusses violence in ancient Greek and Roman sports, in early American sports, and in the writings of one or two philosophers; current administrative and legal remedies to violence in American professional sports; his Zen Buddhism/martial arts-based alternative to violent western training models; and several proposals for controlling violence, including limiting consumption of alcohol, reducing noise at games, doing away with mascots, instituting penalties for fighting, and holding professional athletes legally responsible for injuries they inflict. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR