Author: Cody Monk Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC ISBN: 9781582617077 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 206
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Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Tom Landry -- Tex Schramm -- Don Meredith -- Bob Lilly -- Lee Roy Jordan -- Mel Renfro -- Bob Hayes -- Roger Staubach -- Cliff Harris & Charlie Waters -- Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson -- Ed "Too Tall" Jones -- Randy White -- Tony Dorsett -- Michael Irvin -- Troy Aikman -- Emmitt Smith.
Author: Mark Stewart Publisher: Norwood House Press ISBN: 1599535203 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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Ever heard of the “Hail Mary”? No, we don’t mean the prayer. “The Dallas Cowboys” by Mark Stewart not only explains where the nickname for a long pass came from, but also offers young fans a look into one of the most beloved teams in the NFL while including fun facts, team spotlights such as Troy Aikman and Tony Romo, and pictures of Cowboys memorabilia. Have a young fan who likes to argue sports? Don’t miss the “Great Debates” section where readers get insight into some of the greatest debates surrounding the Cowboys and professional football! Team spirit is that deep passion shared by the players and fans when they wear the same colors, watch the same scoreboard, and cheer the same triumphs. This popular series has been completely revised and updated for the Fall 2012 release. Book updates include new team information, records, photos, and timelines as well as new features like GREAT DEBATES and GLORY DAYS. Once you finish the book, you can go to the OVERTIME WEBSITE where each football team has its very own webpage to accompany the reading material. This site will be updated throughout the season and postseason with kid-friendly news about their favorite football teams - the perfect source for up-to-date statistics and player information for young sports fans.
Author: Skip Bayless Publisher: ISBN: 9780060186487 Category : Dallas Cowboys Languages : en Pages : 0
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Offers an inside look at the 1996 Dallas Cowboys, recounting the jockeying for attention and other behind-the-scenes wrangling among coaches and players.
Author: R. Conrad Stein Publisher: Children's Press ISBN: 9780516043944 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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Demonstrates the competitive spirit of this Superbowl-winning quarterback during his years as a high school football hero, a college superstar, and a pro with the Dallas Cowboys.
Author: Jeff Pearlman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061982385 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 622
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New York Times bestseller From celebrated sports writer Jeff Pearlman, author of The Bad Guys Won, a rollicking, completely unabashed account of the glory days of the legendary Dallas Cowboys They were called America's Team. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin—and lorded over by swashbuckling, power-hungry owner Jerry Jones and his two hard-living coaches, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer—the Cowboys seemed indomitable on the football field throughout the 1990s. Off the field the 'Boys were a dysfunctional circus, fueled by ego, sex, drugs, and jaw-dropping excess. What they achieved on game day was astonishing; what they did the rest of the week was unbelievable. Boys Will Be Boys is the story of the Dallas Cowboys in their prime—a team of wild-partying, out-of-control glory-hounds that won three Super Bowls in four years and earned their rightful place in sports lore as the most beloved and despised dynasty in NFL history.
Author: Mark Fainaru-Wada Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0770437567 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 457
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The story of how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, denied and sought to cover up mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage “League of Denial may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time.”—The Boston Globe “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players—including some of the all-time greats—to madness. In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our twenty-first-century pastime. Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football, that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America’s research labs, and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research—a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco’s fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it—questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner.
Author: Michael Sandler Publisher: Bearport Publishing ISBN: 1597168211 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 28
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The Dallas Cowboys hadn't won a Super Bowl in fifteen years. Once an NFL powerhouse, Dallas had fallen on hard times. Now, however, things had changed. Quarterback Troy Aikman had led the Cowboys to Super Bowl XXVII. They were one win away from a championship season. The only thing that stood in their way was the Buffalo Bills. Could Troy lead the Cowboys to a Super Bowl victory? In Troy Aikman and the Dallas Cowboys, young sports fans will follow Troy from his love of the game as a child all the way to his MVP performance in Super Bowl XXVII. Large, full-color action photos and engaging narrative text will keep readers on the edge of their seats as they cheer on Troy and Cowboys.
Author: Barry Wilner Publisher: SportsZone ISBN: 9781641852876 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Readers will learn about Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman and the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s. This title features informative sidebars, a timeline, a glossary, and team file filled with awards and records held by team members"--Publisher's description.
Author: Clarence Hill, Jr. Publisher: Rodale Kids ISBN: 1635652529 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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Game for Life: Troy Aikman explores the life and career of three-time Super Bowl champion quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, 1996 NFL Man of the Year, and popular TV analyst for Fox Sports. Long-time Dallas Cowboys beat reporter Clarence Hill, Jr., who covered the first 4 years of Aikman’s career, tells the inspiring story of how the first freshman to start at quarterback for the University of Oklahoma since World War II overcame the bitter disappointment of losing his starting job due to injury, transferred to UCLA, and rose to become the first overall pick in the 1989 NFL Draft. The Game for Life biography series celebrates The Pro Football Hall of Fame's mission of honoring the heroes of professional football, preserving its history, promoting its values, and celebrating excellence everywhere.
Author: Cody Monk
Author: Mark Stewart
Author: Skip Bayless
Author: R. Conrad Stein
Author: Jeff Pearlman
Author: Mark Fainaru-Wada
Author: Michael Sandler
Author: Barry Wilner
Author: Joel Dippold
Author: Clarence Hill, Jr.