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• Prologue
• 1969: the gathering storm
• The White House is calling
• The working press
• Down to business
• A woman's place
• Amateur acts
• Style and substance
• I am woman
• Four stars
• The outsiders
• Critical mass
• Battle lines
• Follow the money
• The last of the firsts
• Going to extremes
• The rising
• Modern times
• All sports all the time
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Source notes
• Bibliographic essay
• Author interviews
• Index.

"A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade--the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes' gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming--at least within sports--more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports, as athletes, coaches, executives, and spectators. More than politicians, musicians or actors, the decade in America was defined by its most exemplary athletes. The sweeping changes in the decade could be seen in the collective experience of Billie Jean King and Muhammad Ali, Henry Aaron and Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Greene, Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert, among others, who redefined the role of athletes and athletics in American culture. The Seventies witnessed the emergence of spectator sports as an ever-expanding mainstream phenomenon, as well as dramatic changes in the way athletes were paid, portrayed, and packaged. In tracing the epic narrative of how American sports was transformed in the Seventies, a larger story emerges: of how America itself changed, and how spectator sports moved decisively on a trajectory toward what it has become today, the last truly "big tent" in American culture"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface. A sporting spectacle is born
• The magic of the World Cup
• The Springbok World Cup machine
• The Springboks in 2023
• North vs South
• Destination France
• Rassie
• Managing the referees
• Packs and halfbacks
• Leadership and trust
• The matches that will shape France 2023
• All it takes is a moment
• Where to next?
• Pools.

"Ever since the Springboks won the Rugby World Cup in 1995, South Africans have been passionate about the tournament that is the pinnacle of sporting achievement. Nick Mallett, who coached the Boks at the 1999 World Cup, has become a household name for his incisive and forthright commentary and analysis. Join him as he takes you into the beating heart of the tournament, which kicks off in Paris in September. He tackles the following key questions: - How strong are the Boks going into the RWC? - Who are the favourites to win, and why? - How does one 'play' the referee - both on and off the field? - What are playing conditions like in France, where Mallett coached for a decade? - Can Rassie Erasmus do it again and pull off a double win? Filled with keen insights, opinions and anecdotes of games past, this is a book every fan should read."-- Page 4 of cover.

• On thinking playfully
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Rules
• Computation
• Graphics
• User interface
• Interlude
• Time
• Cinema
• Violence
• Money
• Conclusion.

"Experimental game designer Pippin Barr explores the "stuff" videogames are made of by offering a conceptual discussion of the fundamentals of game design grounded in eight case studies of his own games"-- Provided by publisher.

• Pay cut (Calhoun)
• You come highly recommended (Pitino)
• Once again, not that much is expected of the Eagles (Williams)
• Getting over a hump (Calhoun)
• Great kids (Pitino)
• "Pack the bags. We're off to Albuquerque" (Williams)
• Northwestern (Calhoun)
• Like the Pacific Ocean (Pitino)
• They probably achieved as much as they could (Williams)
• Our best recruiting year ever (Calhoun)
• "Truly a team of character" (Pitino)
• I was happy at BC (Williams)
• Where did you get that guy? (Calhoun)
• Proper perspective (Pitino)
• Homecoming (Williams).

"Boston Ball is the story of how three ambitious young college basketball coaches learned their trade in Boston in the late 70s and early 80s in the shadow of the dynastic Celtics, and who in their various careers played a big role in reshaping their sport"-- Provided by publisher.

"STRIVING FOR STATUS is original in focus and in evidence. It analyses for the first time in informed and substantial detail, the extraordinary, successful and impressive efforts of Chinese sportswomen in their collective striving for, and achieving of, national and international recognition, status and supremacy. The performances and achievements of these women have thrust them to the very center of the global spotlight. Among the most dramatic, recent developments in Chinese society has been the international ascendancy of these Chinese sportswomen: an intentional and impressive demonstration of soft power politics. In the late twentieth century Deng Xiaoping urged the Chinese policymakers to construct a model of 'comprehensive national power'- Chinese sportswomen are in the vanguard of this construction! More than this, in the process they have achieved elevated social status, and in some cases considerable wealth! STRIVING FOR STATUS is unique in recording their astounding achievements"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword / by Dick Vermeil
• Humble beginnings
• The roots of his genius
• America's heartland to Southern California
• At the car wash
• Doing it George's way
• "Allen never should haveleft"
• Erasing a "country club" image
• An addiction to winning
• "Merry Christmas, you're fired"
• A bear and a moose
• Mr. Allen goes to Washington
• Awakening a sleeping giant
• His crowning moment
• Cruising with George Allen
• "Two major egos clashing"
• The fourth estate
• Motivation
• George Allen style
• "He's all they have"
• The beginning of the end
• "Someone has cut out my heart"
• Uncharted waters
• A new league comes calling
• "Are you kidding?"
• An "almost impossible" task
• Epilogue: The ultimate honor.

"George Allen was a fascinating and eccentric figure in the world of football coaching. His remarkable career spanned six decades, from the late 1940s until his sudden death in 1990 at the age of seventy-three. Although he never won a Super Bowl, he never had a losing season as an NFL head coach and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002. In George Allen: A Football Life, Mike Richman captures the life and accomplishments of one of the most successful NFL coaches of all time and one of the greatest innovators in the game. A player's coach, Allen was a tremendous motivator and game strategist, as well as a defensive mastermind, and is credited with making special teams a critical focus in an era in which they were an afterthought. He had a keen eye for talent and pulled off masterful trades, often for veteran players who were viewed to be past their prime, who then had great seasons and made his teams much better. In addition to his coaching feats, Allen had an idiosyncratic and controversial personality. His life revolved around football 24-7. One of his quirks was to minimize chewing time by consuming soft foods, giving himself more time to prepare for games and study opponents. He lived and breathed football; he compared losing to death. Allen had contentious relationships with the owners of the two NFL teams for which he was the head coach, the Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Rams. Richman explores why he was fired by those teams and whether he was blackballed from coaching again in the NFL. Based on detailed research and interviews with family, former players, and coaches, George Allen is the definitive biography of the football coach who lived to win, loved a good challenge, and left a lasting legacy on pro football history"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Sportscaster, Olympic athlete, American Jew
• Chapter 1: Running through the streets of the Bronx and Brooklyn
• Chapter 2: A Jewish Frank Merriwell at a college-bound high school
• Chapter 3: Recruited to fight quotas at Syracuse University
• Chapter 4: Welcomed in Germany
• Chapter 5: Sidelined in Berlin
• Chapter 6: New York's broadcaster
• Chapter 7: Identity challenged
• Chapter 8: Marty as mentor
• Chapter 9: Olympic memories
• Conclusion: An award from the United States Olympic Committee.

"For close to a half century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the preeminent voice of New York sports. He also has been remembered as a Jewish athlete who was cynically barred from running in the 1936 Olympics by antisemitic American Olympic officials who did not want their Nazi friends to witness a Jew standing triumphantly on the victory stand"-- Provided by publisher.

"In the 1990s, the NBA was trying to capitalize on the latter part of the Michael Jordan era and reposition the league for an international market. Expansion franchises were granted to two Canadian cities; but while Toronto thrived thanks in large part to the drafting of Vince Carter, Vancouver badly mismanaged its team, leading eventually to the team's relocation to Memphis. Author Łukasz Muniowski finds in the shifting fortunes of the Vancouver/Memphis Grizzlies a significant window on a volatile moment in NBA history. He first examines the failure, both financially and culturally, of a prosperous Canadian city to support an NBA expansion team before turning to the Grizzlies' explosive rise in a relatively impoverished southern city starving for national recognition"-- Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Folha de Rosto
• Créditos
• 1. O que é a cultura do consumo?
• 2. A cultura sneaker
• 3. Mercado nacional
• 4. E os por quês?
• 5. Identidade social na moda
• 6. Teoria da cultra do consumo
• 7. Teoria da prática
• 8. Como foi feita a pesquisa?
• 9. A prática ao redor dos sneakers
• Identidade social
• O que é ser um sneakerhead?
• Práticas associadas
• Mercado nacional
• Valores
• Elementos da prática
• 10. Fenômeno em mudança constante
• Glossário
• Referências.

• Appendix: "Defendant Houston Astros": Michael Bolsinger vs. The Houston Astros
• Contributors
• Index

• "Disgraceful baseball"
• What constitutes a Major League?
• The dam trickles open
• Statistical variance across leagues and eras
• Mr. James's 23 tests
• Arguments against statistical integration
• Re-writing the record books
• Josh Gibson vs. Ruthsrecord
• Monte Irvin : half in one world, half in another
• Willard Brown : the chance that wasn't a chance
• Roy Campanella : the fallacy of equivalency
• Luke Easter : the toughest case to prove
• Larry Doby : five-tool superstar
• The greatest
• My inner circle : the top 73 players in American baseball history
• Two down, one to go
• Wrapup : what's fair is fair
• A personal postscript
• Negro Leaguers in the hall of fame
• NgL all-time teams
• The Negro Leagues all-star register
• A proposed Major Leagues organizational chart
• A proposed NgL team roster
• NgL and early MLB team failures
• Negro Leaguers who played in the Majors
• Short notes on diverse subjects
• A long note : Major League Baseball vs. the truth.

"For more than half a century, Black baseball players, barred from the Major Leagues by systemic racism, competed in leagues of their own. This book re-interprets the history of race in baseball from the ground up, telling the story of how the Major Leagues became the 'Caucasian Leagues,' and naming the person most responsible for their segregation; showing how Major League owners and executives tried to delay and even prevent integration; and proving, using a broad range of methods, that Negro League players were every inch the equals of their Major League counterparts. Cherished records held by white players since the days of segregation are shown to belong rightfully to Negro League superstars. This book takes a fresh look at a subject that's both straight from today's headlines and as old as baseball itself"-- Provided by publisher.

"Kibefte : apprendre l'histoire de Mayotte en s'amusant, est un jeu de cartes dédié à l'histoire de Mayotte. Il s'articule autour de sept grandes thématiques historiques avec comme familles : famille 'Bantou', famille 'Austronésiens', famille 'Fani', famille 'Sultans', famille 'Pirates', famille 'Cadi' et famille 'Gouverneurs'. Grâce à des illustrations magnifiques et à la fantaisie des personnages, petits et grands serond ravis de découvrir une partie de l'histoire de Mayotte tout en s'amusant. Les cartes sont accompagnées, au verso, d'un court texte explicatif et instructif sur chaque famille. Son contenu s'adresse à un public large à partir de 8 ans."--Container.

"The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable. Long-standing batting and pitching standards were threatened, including the revered single-season home run record. The Montreal Expos and New York Yankees were delivering remarkable campaigns. In August, acting commissioner Bud Selig called a halt to the season amid the League's latest labor dispute. The shutdown led to a lockout as well as cancellation of more than 900 regular season games, the scheduled expanded rounds of playoffs, and that year's World Series. Like all labor struggles, it was fundamentally about control of salaries, of players' ability to decide their own fates, and of the game itself. This book chronicles Major League Baseball's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects. It highlights earlier labor struggles and the roles performed by individuals from John Montgomery Ward, David Fultz and Robert Murphy to Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith, Jim "Catfish" Hunter and Donald Fehr. Also examined are the ballplayers' own organizations, from the Players League of the early 1890s to the still potent Major League Baseball Players Association doing battle with team owners and their representatives."-- Provided by publisher.

• Proposing the posthuman gamer
• Who am "I"? : troubling the self
• From acting to intra-acting
• Enacting and embodying empathy
• Emergent subject positions
• From emergence to (susp)endings
• A contingent conclusion.