Players and Pretenders tells the story of the flip side of basketball?s ?March Madness,? where the game is played by average players for love, not for money.
This book is especially an ideal text for both teenagers looking to improve their sports skills and develop their personality, as well as for their parents.
In life, as in basketball, JoJo White's approach to each opportunity that a new day presents has always been the same: make it count"--Publisher's website.
May tells the absorbing story of the hopes and struggles of one high school basketball team, the Northeast High School Knights in Northeast, Georgia, and the powerful role that a basketball team can play in keeping young African American ...
This is the story of a group of kids who loved to play basketball: the underdog 1943-44 University of Utah men's basketball team and their unlikely path to the NCAA championship, who came out of nowhere to upset heavily favored Dartmouth ...
Set within the context of the tumultuous 1960s and early 1970s, grounded in the civil rights struggles on campus and within the larger community, and enriched by the viewpoint of players, relatives, coaches, teammates, opponents, and other ...