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Broken Dreams - Another Year Inside Boxing

by Thomas Hauser

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 Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Broken Dreams presents coverage of 2020's most important fighters and fights, outside-the-ring controversies, regulatory missteps, and other issues that defined the year's boxing scene.
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Seattle Sports - Play, Identity, And Pursuit In The Emerald City

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 From national championships to intra-communal play and the elimination of racial, ethnic, and gender barriers, the essays in Seattle Sports explore the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in, and reinforced by, play.
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Olimpismo - The Olympic Movement In The Making Of Latin America And The Caribbean

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 The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Caribbean peoples with the Olympic Movement, serving as an effective medium to explore the making of this region.
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New York Sports - Glamour And Grit In The Empire City

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 Collects the work of fourteen leading sport historians providing new insight into the social and cultural history of America's leading metropolis and of the United States. These writers address the topics of changing conceptions of manhood and violence, leisure and social class, urban night life and entertainment, women and athletics, ethnicity and assimilation, and more.
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La Sports - Play, Games, And Community In The City Of Angels

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 Brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America's most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, and the importance of the Showtime Lakers.
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Sport And The Law - Historical And Cultural Intersections

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 Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
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Hoop Crazy - The Lives Of Clair Bee And Chip Hilton

by Dennis Gildea

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 Clair Bee was a hugely successful basketball coach until his career was derailed in 1951 by a point-shaving scandal. His coaching career effectively over, Bee launched an effort to reform the ills he saw in college sports in the pages of the Chip Hilton novels for young readers. This book tells the fascinating story of Clair Bee.
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Short And Odd - Confounding Stories Of Life: A Collection Of Short Stories

by Obijiski Susan M. Obijiski

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In The Inner Sanctum - Behind The Scenes At Big Fights

by Thomas Hauser

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 For decades, elite fighters like Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao, Gennady Golovkin, and Canelo Alvarez have welcomed Thomas Hauser into their dressing room to record their journey on fight night. Drawn from his acclaimed yearly collections of boxing essays, this volume celebrates these most dramatic hours in fightersâ€™ lives.
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A Spectacular Leap - Black Women Athletes In Twentieth-Century America

by Jennifer H. Lansbury

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 Through the stories of six athletes, including Althea Gibson, Wilma Rudloph and Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Jennifer Lansbury deftly follows the emergence of black women athletes from the African American community; their confrontations with contemporary attitudes of race, class, and gender; and their encounters with the civil rights movement.
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The Crown Games Of Ancient Greece - Archaeology, Athletes, And Heroes

by David Lunt

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 The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Neman Games, sacred to Zeus. This book examines these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world.
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Rebellion And Realignment - Arkansas'S Road To Secession

by James M. Woods

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George Dixon - The Short Life Of Boxing'S First Black World Champion, 1870â€“1908

by Jason Winders

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 This work of sporting and social history presents a biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised boxer George Dixon (1870-1908), the first Black world champion of any sport and the first Black world boxing champion in any division.
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Blood In Their Eyes - The Elaine Massacre Of 1919

by Brian K. Mitchell, Grif Stockley e Guy Lancaster

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 The first edition of Blood in Their Eyes brought renewed attention to the Elaine Massacre and sparked valuable new studies on racial violence and exploitation in Arkansas and beyond. This revised edition explores in greater detail the actions of the mob, the lives of those who survived, and the regime of fear that prevailed under Jim Crow.
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Seattle Sports - Play, Identity, And Pursuit In The Emerald City

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 From national championships to intra-communal play and the elimination of racial, ethnic, and gender barriers, the essays in Seattle Sports explore the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in, and reinforced by, play.
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Readings In Arkansas Politics And Government

by Catherine Reese, Janine A. Parry e Kim U. Hoffman

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 Brings together in one volume some of the best available scholarly research on a wide range of issues of interest to students of Arkansas politics and government. The twenty-one chapters are arranged in three sections covering both historical and contemporary issues.
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Separate Games - African American Sport Behind The Walls Of Segregation

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 The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organised sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams and events. This book explores the ways sports helped bind the black community and illuminate race pride, business acumen, and organisational abilities.
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Olimpismo - The Olympic Movement In The Making Of Latin America And The Caribbean

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 The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Caribbean peoples with the Olympic Movement, serving as an effective medium to explore the making of this region.
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Twin Cities Sports - Games For All Seasons

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 The histories in this title are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the Minneapolis Lakers' basketball dynasty, and more.
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First Amendment Studies In Arkansas - The Richard S. Arnold Prize Essays

by Stephen Smith

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You Are Here - Poems New & Old

by Leon Stokesbury

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 Winnowed from a distinguished career, then distilled, then polished and winnowed again, the poems in You Are Here are Leon Stokesburyâ€™s most successful and finished from fifty yearâ€™s of published work.
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The Lost Secret Of Speaking Perfect English - The Moving Mouth Dictionary

by Bulmer Peter F. Bulmer

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A Shining Path

by Elaine Blick

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Winthrop Rockefeller - From New Yorker To Arkansawyer, 1912-1956

by John A. Kirk

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 Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? In this richly detailed biography of the former Arkansas governor, John Kirk delves into the historical record to fully unravel that mystery for the first time.
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