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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
This Month Basketball Book eBADVICE:
Outside the Limelight: Basketball in the Ivy League
By Kathy Orton
with Forewords by John Feinstein
Outside the Limelight is the first book to look inside Ivy League basketball and at the boundless enthusiasm that defines it.
With painstaking reportage, Kathy Orton weaves together the stories of coaches and players as they move from fall practice through an entire season and ahead to the NCAA tournament.
Vividly capturing the internal fervor of the personalities who champion their game—all the triumphs and disappointments of an Ivy hoop season.
Kathy Orton has covered college basketball for the Washington Post for more than a decade. She was also the newspaper's beat writer on the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for two seasons, including their Super Bowl season in 2000.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 July 2010 )
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Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide |
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Saturday, 24 April 2010 |
This Week eBA Best Seller:
Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
By Gary Mack and David Casstevens
In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.
Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes - many of whom he has worked with - Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle."
Mind Gym and these 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will give you the "head edge" over the competition.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 July 2010 )
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Jerry West: The Life and Legend |
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Saturday, 17 April 2010 |
This Week eBA Best Seller:
Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon
By Roland Lazenby
When in 1969 the NBA sought an emblem for the league, one man was chosen above all as the icon of his sport: Jerry West. Silhouetted in white against a red-and-blue backdrop, West’s signature gait and left-handed dribble are still the NBA logo, seen on merchandise around the world.
In this marvelous book — the first biography of the basketball legend — award-winning reporter and author Roland Lazenby traces Jerry West’s brilliant career from the coalfields near Cabin Creek, West Virginia, to the bare-knuckled pre-expansion era of the NBA, from the Lakers’ Riley-Magic-Kareem Showtime era to Jackson–Kobe–Shaq teams of the early twenty-first century, and beyond.
But fame was not all glory.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 July 2010 )
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The Art of a Beautiful Game |
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Saturday, 03 April 2010 |
This Month eBA Bestseller:
The Art of a Beautiful Game:
The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA
by Chris Ballard
In The Art of a Beautiful Game, Chris Ballard, the award-winning Sports Illustrated writer who has covered the NBA for the past decade, goes behind the scenes to examine basketball in ways that will surprise even die-hard fans.
An inveterate hoops junkie who played some college ball, Ballard sits down with the NBA's most passionate, cerebral players to find out their tricks of the trade and to learn what drives them, taking readers away from the usual sports talk radio fodder and deep into the heart of the game.
Ballard talks to Dwight Howard, a prolific shot-blocker, about the enervating feeling of meeting another man at the height of his leap; challenges Steve Kerr to a game of H-O-R-S-E to understand the mentality of a pure shooter; reveals the roots of Kobe Bryant's unmatched killer instinct; and spends time with LeBron James to better understand both his mental game and his seemingly unlimited physical skills.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 April 2010 )
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The Book of Basketball~Bill Simmons |
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Saturday, 27 March 2010 |
This Week eBA Bestseller:
The Book of Basketball
The NBA According to the Sports Guy
by Bill Simmons with forewords by Malcolm Gladwell
There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA... more to the point, he's the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off...
Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com's Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.
Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.
From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens-and then closes, once and for all-every major pro basketball debate.
Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons's one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball.
And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.
Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
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Meeting Isiah Thomas at a Topless Pool In Vegas
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Manu Ginobili's Times
Manu Ginobili ~ ARG
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The Lord of the Rings !
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Why ? In order to improve our interaction with the precise audience we want, giving better scope for the promotion of our courses, forums, encyclopedia, articles, notes, photographs and the whole eBA Basketball Statistics Analysis System for Professional Basketball Games...!
You know... if Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria... and there we are !
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