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The long snapper is perhaps the most underappreciated position in football. In this book, Ted Kluck shares the unique stories of these often-unseen high-pressure athletes. He speaks with NFL snapping agent Kevin Gold, former NFL snapper Justin Snow, NFL special teams coach Gary Zauner, and others in order to fully explore the art of long snapping.
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The long snapper is perhaps the most underappreciated position in football. In this book, Ted Kluck shares the unique stories of these often-unseen high-pressure athletes. He speaks with NFL snapping agent Kevin Gold, former NFL snapper Justin Snow, NFL special teams coach Gary Zauner, and others in order to fully explore the art of long snapping.
Author: Ted Kluck Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442257121 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 206
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The long snapper is perhaps the most overlooked and underappreciated position in football. He spends a great deal of his career bent over a football, with a guy either kneeling seven yards behind him or standing back at 15 yards. In a sense, the long snapper has one job—to go unnoticed. If he is noticed, it probably means he’s flubbed a snap—and for a long snapper, a single mistake can mean instant unemployment. In Upside Down Football: An Inside Look at Long Snapping in the NFL, Ted Kluck shares the unique stories of these often-unseen high-pressure athletes. To fully explore the art of long snapping, Kluck attempts to perfect his own long-snapping technique, enlisting NFL snapping super-agent Kevin Gold and former longtime NFL snapper Justin Snow to help him. He also learns from elite NFL special teams coach Gary Zauner, experiences the camp circuit via snapping guru Chris Rubio, trains with snapping coach Nolan Owen, and talks with Green Beret and college snapper Nate Boyer. Upside Down Football features in-depth interviews with players, coaches, agents, and scouts, introducing the reader to men who have snapped at the game’s highest level and to those who helped them get there. NFL and college football fans, along with long snappers of all levels, will enjoy this entertaining and enlightening perspective on the most underappreciated position in football.
Author: Lew Riley Publisher: ISBN: 9780990443711 Category : Languages : en Pages : 124
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Jonathan Bauman doesn't believe in "Playing it Safe" in Fantasy Football - he wins repeatedly by using a high-reward/low risk, surprisingly little known drafting method that will upgrade your squad to the next level. Once he shares his Fantasy Draft Day secrets with you in this easy-to-follow book, you'll be equipped and supremely confident before your Fantasy Football League Draft. All you need is an advantage over your competition, and this 100-page Quick Guide provides you with the necessary tools that your buddies will only wish they had on Draft Day. "If you're serious about Dominating your Fantasy Football League - Then this Special Edition, full color, paperback book is the perfect tool for your Summer vacation reading material, or handy to have right up until your Draft begins."
Author: Bob Boyles Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 9781602393318 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1348
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The result of 15 years of exhaustive research, this work is the definitive statistical and factual reference for everything related to college football in the past 50 years.
Author: Hannah Orenstein Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982121483 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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Named a best beach/summer read by O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Parade, PopSugar, Marie Claire, Bustle, and more! From the author of the Love at First Like and Playing with Matches, an electrifying rom-com set in the high stakes world of competitive gymnastics, full of Hannah Orenstein’s signature “charm, whimsy, and giddy romantic tension” (BuzzFeed). The past seven years have been hard on Avery Abrams: After training her entire life to make the Olympic gymnastics team, a disastrous performance ended her athletic career for good. Her best friend and teammate, Jasmine, went on to become an Olympic champion, then committed the ultimate betrayal by marrying their emotionally abusive coach, Dimitri. Now, reeling from a breakup with her football star boyfriend, Avery returns to her Massachusetts hometown, where new coach Ryan asks her to help him train a promising young gymnast with Olympic aspirations. Despite her misgivings and worries about the memories it will evoke, Avery agrees. Back in the gym, she’s surprised to find sparks flying with Ryan. But when a shocking scandal in the gymnastics world breaks, it has shattering effects not only for the sport but also for Avery and her old friend Jasmine. Perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Jasmine Guillory, Head Over Heels proves that no one “writes about modern relationships with more humor or insight than Hannah Orenstein” (Dana Schwartz, author of Choose Your Own Disaster).
Author: Dave Zirin Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1595588159 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy" sports and politics just don't mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of soccer in the Arab Spring to the Penn State sexual abuse scandals and Tim Tebow's on-field genuflections, this timely and hard-hitting new book from the "conscience of American sportswriting" (The Washington Post) reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. Game Over offers new insights and analysis of headline-grabbing sports controversies, exploring the shady side of the NCAA, the explosive 2011 MLB All-Star Game, and why the Dodgers crashed and burned. It covers the fascinating struggles of gay and lesbian athletes to gain acceptance, female athletes to be more than sex symbols, and athletes everywhere to assert their collective bargaining rights as union members. Zirin also illustrates the ways in which athletes are once again using their exalted platforms to speak out and reclaim sports from the corporate interests that have taken it hostage. In Game Over, he cheers the victories but also reflects on how far we have yet to go. Combining brilliant set pieces with a sobering overview of today's sports scene in Zirin's take-no-prisoners style, Game Over is a must read for anyone, sports fan or not, interested in understanding how sports reflect and shape society--and why the stakes have never been higher.
Author: Bobby Hawthorne Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292714465 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 312
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An authoritative history of the nation's fourth-winningest college football program is lavishly illustrated with two hundred photographs of the legendary players and coaches, historic games, and unique traditions of the Texas Longhorns from the University of Texas at Austin.
Author: Rick Newman Publisher: Presidio Press ISBN: 0307414701 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 512
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They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made. In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilots identify and destroy targets from safe distances. But in the search for enemy traffic on the elusive Ho Chi Minh Trail, always risking enemy fire, capture, and death, pilots had to drop low enough to glimpse the telltale signs of movement such as suspicious dust on treetops or disappearing tire marks on a dirt road (indicating a hidden truck park). Written by an accomplished journalist and veteran, Bury Us Upside Down is the stunning story of these brave Americans, the men who flew in the covert Operation Commando Sabre–or “Misty”–the most innovative air operation of the war. In missions that lasted for hours, the pilots of Misty flew zigzag patterns searching for enemy troops, vehicles, and weapons, without benefit of night-vision goggles, infrared devices, or other now common sensors. What they gained in exhilarating autonomy also cost them: of 157 pilots, 34 were shot down, 3 captured, and 7 killed. Here is a firsthand account of courage and technical mastery under fire. Here, too, is a tale of forbearance and loss, including the experience of the family of a missing Misty flier–Howard K. Williams–as they learn, after twenty-three years, that his remains have been found. Now that bombs are smart and remote sensors are even smarter, the missions that the Mistys flew would now be considered no less than suicidal. Bury Us Upside Down reminds us that for some, such dangers simply came with the territory.
Author: Ted Kluck
Author: Ted Kluck
Author: Ted Kluck
Author: Lew Riley
Author: Bob Boyles
Author: Harold N. Levinson
Author: Hannah Orenstein
Author: Bob Boyles
Author: Dave Zirin
Author: Bobby Hawthorne
Author: Rick Newman