Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Coaching - Basketball

Before Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Julius Erving, or Michael Jordan--before Magic Johnson and Showtime--the Harlem Globetrotters revolutionized basketball and spread the game around the world. In Spinning the Globe, author Ben Green tells the story of this extraordinary franchise and iconic American institution. We follow the Globetrotters' rise from backwoods obscurity during the harsh years of the Great Depression to become the best basketball team in the country and, by the early 1950s, the most popular sports franchise in the world. Green brings to life their struggles with racism...

When Bill Belichick arrived in New England, the Patriots were a laughingstock, an organization with a losing record and a roster of overpaid, underperforming players. So how did a head coach with a questionable record transform this team, garner three Lombardi trophies in four years, and -- with the Pats' 2005 Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles -- cement the team's place as an NFL dynasty?

With unprecedented access granted by Belichick and his staff, author Michael Holley spent two years with the coach, his team, and his brain trust. Holley provides insights into how...

Twenty-five years after it spent sixteen weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written. Granted unprecedented access to...

Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting
Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports
Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America s basketball stars. "Play Their Hearts Out" reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation. At the book s heart are the personal stories of two compelling figures: Joe Keller, an ambitious...

The strategies used by winning coaches on the field can bring success to classrooms, too In What Teachers Can Learn From Sports Coaches, you'll uncover that the athletic arena and the classroom have more in common than you think. Author Nathan Barber demonstrates how many of the principles of coaching can be used by teachers to motivate students, build community, and enhance teaching.

You'll learn valuable lessons on...

• Communicating effectively
• Harnessing the power of teamwork
• Making work meaningful
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Um dein wahres Potential zu entfalten, musst du in deiner physischen und mentalen Bestform sein. Um das zu erreichen, musst du einen Plan erstellen, der dir dabei hilft, deine StArke, MobilitAt, ErnAhrung und mentale StArke zu verbessern. Dieses Buch hilft dir dabei. Die richtige ErnAhrung und Training sind nur zwei der Puzzleteile, aber du brauchst noch ein drittes Teil, um das Puzzle zu vervollstAndigen. Das dritte Teil ist die mentale StArke und diese kann durch Meditations- und Visualisierungstechniken erlangt werden, die die in diesem Buch nAher gebracht werden.

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