| Sports books that hold the thrill and make the sport come alive | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 11:00:33 AM by Rose Martins | Avid sports fans love a great book on sport. If you look online the internet is a host to sports books covering the spectrum of every possible sport. For the bookie hookie, you can even read up about betting on your favourite horse, dog or whatever else tickles your fancy.
 There is no such thing as the best sport. Sport is definitely subjective. Everyone has their own favourite sport, or sometimes two or three sports. Often a person's favourite choice of sport is influenced by the country and climate in which they live.
A person living in equatorial africa, is not going to be a big support of speed skiing or ice skating, and a person living in Lapland or Iceland, is not going to be a great cricket fan.
The book EXTREME SPORTS: IN SEARCH OF THE ULTIMATE THRILL by Joe Tomlinson and Ed Leigh provides the reader with full colour photos and blurbs about cliff diving, skateboarding, sky flying and more.
The authors provide tips on necessary equipment and clothing, as well as detailed advice on tricks, safety and descriptions of the special challenges of each jump or maneuver. Another great read for street sports fans is IN SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME: 50 YEARS OF STREET CULTURE by James Davis and Skin Phillips.
This book is a comprehensive history of skateboarding from the 1950s to modern times, telling the reader about the skateboarding greats of the past, plus the best skateboarding venues world wide, and tips and advice on the sport.
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| | | Dedicated Barbara the reluctant hero | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:48:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | BARBARA Jones has been involved in her beloved sport of swimming for more than 26 years - and she certainly hasn't been treading water. For the Clitheroe Dolphins treasurer fulfils a medley of roles at the family orientated club, a task that has seen her named Unsung Hero in the annual BBC North West Sports Awards. Barbara is a dedicated coach and spends more than 10 hours a week teaching youngsters how to swim and how to improve their techniques. She also teaches several of the school sessions and promotes swimming by taking children with special needs into the club. And when she doesn't have her eye on the pool then she has her head in the books. For Barbara is a stickler to detail and keeps all the club records in order and up to date and ensures all swimmers receive their award badges.... | |
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| | | Zee TV buys 50 pct in Dubai's Ten Sports | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:49:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's largest listed media firm, Zee Telefilms Ltd. said on Monday it had bought 50 percent in Dubai-based Taj Television's Ten Sports channel for an undisclosed sum. Zee said its all-cash purchase was based on an enterprise value of $114 million for Taj Television. The financial statements of the Abdul Rahman Bukhatir-owned Taj Television would be consolidated in Zee's books, Zee said in a statement. Taj TV is expected to have an average annual revenue of $50 million for the next three fiscal years, Zee said. .... | |
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| | | NBA Insider: Fascinating book takes close look at Suns | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:48:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | "My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns." The book was written by Jack McCallum, who has covered the NBA for Sports Illustrated magazine for most of the past 22 seasons. The best book I've ever read about the NBA was David Halberstam's "The Breaks of the Game," which chronicled the 1979-80 Portland Trail Blazers. That was because the book transcended sport and because Halberstam is such a noble craftsman, a journalist's journalist. Halberstam, however, was not given the unfettered access to the inner workings of the Trail Blazers, particularly the coaching staff, that McCallum was afforded by last season's Suns. McCallum's book grew out of an assignment for the magazine to spend the preseason as sort of an unofficial assistant coach with the Suns.... | |
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| | | What the national sports pundits are saying | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:49:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | A sampling of columns and blogs following the Tigers Game 3 loss to the Cardinals: World Series is now the Cardinals' to win Somebody remind me again just how long ago it was when these Cardinals were gasping and swooning toward the NL Central finish line like punch-drunk boxers just looking for a comfortable place to collapse. Two weeks? A month? How about a wild and unbelievable lifetime ago? The unforeseen road of the Cardinals from unloved regular-season stumblebums to surprising postseason underdogs has just taken another surprising turn with Tuesday night's 5-0 Game 3 victory over the Detroit Cheatahs ... er ... Tigers. Bryan Burwell http://snipurl.com/10dhz No controversy in Game 3 just Carp mowing down the Tigers Chris Carpenter finally got his chance to pitch in a World Series game.... | |
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| | | Bill Belichick gives dad's books to Naval Academy | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:47:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Gold Glory," "This Game of Football," "Brian Piccalo," "Fundamental Football." Book titles that could once be found on the bookshelves at the home of the late former Navy assistant football coach Steve Belichick, who died Nov. 19, 2005 at the age of 86, can now be seen in the new, lighted, bookcases at the Naval Academy football offices. "The Big Play," "Rockne: Idol of American Football," "My Kind of Football." More book titles that can be seen in the built in, glass cabinets that were also donated by the Belichicks and are now part of a library in the new offices on the third floor of the academy's Ricketts Hall. They too were taking up considerable space in the Belichick's home in Annapolis. "Meat on the Hoof," "My Kind of Football," "We Play to Win, 100 Years of Navy Football." They are more books that were collected by Steve Belichick starting in the 1950s and, beginning in the 1970s, by his son Bill.... | |
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| | | Heard the one about the army that just wouldn't leave? | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:47:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | The year is 2017, according to the opening credits of the fake news broadcast, and the last man alive in Iraq, whose name is Saaed, is sitting at a desk, working as a television news anchor. He sports an Afro, star-shaped sunglasses, and a button-down shirt. The Americans are still here, the government is still bumbling, and the anchor wants his viewers to drink their tea slowly so they don't burn themselves. "You cannot go to the hospital during the curfew," he warns. For Iraqis, the remark is outrageously funny, if only because it's so close to being true. After a summer of the worst violence since U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, tens of thousands of Iraqis are finding solace and amusement in a new television show whose dark humor makes it an Iraqi version of Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.... | |
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| | | Yankees will win the World Series | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 12:47:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Major League Baseball playoffs begin Tuesday, but entering last night's games none of the match-ups were set. There is plenty of work to do yet during the regular season. In the National League, the only thing we know is that the New York Mets won the East and own the best record. Five teams are still vying for the other three playoff spots. Things are so jumbled that St. Louis could be forced to play a rained out game on Monday, then go to Houston for a division championship game Tuesday. At least in the American League we know which four teams have qualified for the postseason. We do not know who owns either home field advantage. Trend - Watch out for one of the Wild Card teams. A Wild Card has reached the World Series five out of the last six years, and won the title three of those times.... | |
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| | | Bananas for books | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:47:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | In regard to "Principal goes bananas for books," how marvelous we can challenge elementary students to read by rewarding them with participation in a disgusting display of making a human banana split. Educators and parents need look no further for causes of today's students' seeming disrespect for both people and food. The idea of having to reward children for doing and learning something that should be self-rewarding is last with principals and teachers who are more immature than the students they supposedly guide. .... | |
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| | | Workers who drive drunk face dismissal | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:48:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | At least 11 prefectures and large cities have rules on their books calling for the immediate dismissal of employees who get caught for drunkien driving. But more are considering introducing similar measures following a horrific accident last month that left three children dead. The dismissal rule applies even in cases where the worker doesn't cause an accident, but it also depends on them owning up to having driven drunk. The Asahi Shimbun asked officials at the 47 prefectural governments and the 15 largest cities about rules for workers caught driving while under the influence. Seven prefectures--Aomori, Akita, Yamanashi, Osaka, Kochi, Saga and Nagasaki--have rules that call for workers caught driving after they have been drinking to be fired. Four major cities--Yokohama, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Fukuoka--have similar rules.... | |
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| | | Instant Sports Books Rise in Popularity | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 12:47:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | COLUMBUS, Ohio — It's late in the fourth quarter of Game 6 of the NBA finals and Mike Pearson is nervously glancing at the clock, hoping the Dallas Mavericks can hang on. Pearson has hundreds of thousands of dollars riding on the outcome. As he screams at the TV in his living room, he can feel his investment evaporating like an ice cube on a Miami sidewalk. .... | |
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